Chapter Four

"So what did they do to you?" Tommy's voice was hard and angry.

"Your brother and that boy toy friend of his tried to send me to jail." He glanced over at Tommy. "And when that didn't work they tried to kill me. That little blond boy of Walker's tried to steer us off the road when I was trying get away from your brother and Walker. He steered us straight into a river. I almost died.

"They cost me everything." He slapped the steering wheel hard with the heel of his left hand. "So I took something that means something to everyone, you. I know that you mean a lot to Walker and Trent, but what do you mean to Gage?"

"I hardly know him," Tommy mumbled staring  out the window. "What are you gonna do to me?"

"First I'm gonna teach your brother what it's like to lose almost everything, then we'll have some fun," he said with a smile that sent chills straight through the youth.

"Are you gonna kill me?"He had to know. He wanted to know so that he could steel himself for it.

"I'm gonna make it look that way." He looked at his captive like a man dying of thirst would a glass of water. "I'm gonna kill your brother and Walker. But not you or Gage. You two are special men."

"Why?"

"Oh, because you were there and because the cards fell into place. Just because I feel like it," he said with a shrug, as if he were ordering a cup of coffee. "No more questions, or I might reconsider and kill you anyway."