Today’s excerpt is from Horace
Goes Home, Book #2 of the Bader Trilogy. Horace asks one of the three men captured
before they could kill him a question and gets a job offer from Hector. Enjoy and have a wonderful day.
m.j.
Meanwhile, in
the barn, Horace walked up to Hector.
“Okay for me to ask the one with the bum hand a question or two?”
“Yeah, as long
as you don’t kill him in the process—but wait just a few minutes.”
Hector was busy
setting up his laptop and hooking it up to a printer. When ready, he took a portable scanner over
to the three men. He told one of his men
to release their hands one at a time, then re-cuff them when he was
finished. He put each man’s full hand on
the scanner, pushed a button, then went to the next one. With the first two, he used the right hand;
with the man with the bad right hand, he used the left hand. When he finished, he looked at Horace. “Have at it.”
As Hector walked
back to his laptop, Horace took the black bag off the head of the man with the
bad hand, and ripped the duct tape loose.
“Where’s your friend?”
The man looked
hard at Horace. “Go to hell.”
Horace kicked
him hard, in the area of his ankle. The
man all but fell to the floor. “The next
one is to your knee. Where is he?”
“You killed him,
you bastard—and you’re gonna get yours.”
Horace put the
duct tape back over his mouth, put the hood back on, said, “Thanks,” then
turned to leave the barn.
As he did,
Hector caught up to him. “Horace, when
this is all over, you want a job, come see me.”
Smiling, he handed Horace his business card.
“Thanks—I may
just do that. Thanks for letting me
spend a few quality seconds with that jackass.”
“You’re more
than welcome.”
Horace left the
barn, smiled, and whistled on his way back to the main house. When he got there, he walked in and greeted
everyone. Then he went to the bar, and
poured himself a drink. After he sat
down next to Jill, he told her he had been offered the possibility of a job
with Hector. Elmer looked at him. “Where have you been?”
Sure that Elmer
knew where he had been, Horace grinned, “Just asked the guy with the bad hand
where his buddy was. He told me I killed
him.”
Homer nodded,
“Well, Elmer, there’s one charge you’ve got on him. By saying that, he basically admitted he was
in on the raid on your home.”
Horace shook his
head. “Don’t think we can use it. I didn’t ask him politely, after he told me
to go to hell the first time I asked.”
Homer looked at
Elmer, and smiled. “Well, it was a
thought.”
Elmer laughed,
“I have a hunch we have a good deal more to charge him and his two friends
with. Will probably have still more when
Hector gets through with them.”
Greg sighed,
“Yeah—if he doesn’t use the same tactics.”
Elmer smiled,
“His stuff will be usable—I’d bet on it.”
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