“Doesn’t it feel good to you?”
“I suppose.”
She looked over and smiled, thinking of that night just a year ago, when she’d finally caught up with him. He’d wanted a way out—they both had—and she’d shown him a door. Now they were standing here together at the bow of a cruise ship, en route to South America, with $425,000 between them that Javier had taken from the safe in that Alaskan lodge. He still scared her, something diamond-hard and unknowable in those blue eyes, but she liked that he scared her, and she liked his heat.
“Merry Christmas, Jav.”
“
The engines of the cruise ship hummed beneath them, a low, steady bass line, and Kalyn leaned over just enough so their elbows touched.
Javier said, “What are you doing?”
“This.” And she kissed him for the first time, for a long time.
When they came apart, she said, “But you know something?” The corners of her mouth and her tongue were tingling. “You still hurt my sister, you fucking psychopath.”
Javier smiled at this, but the smile faded and he stared in disbelief, watching Kalyn bend down, her knees grazing the pool of blood, and wrap her arms around his thighs.
Then she hoisted him up onto the railing, grabbed the handle of the knife she’d embedded in his gut, and pushed him into the Atlantic Ocean.
Also by Blake Crouch
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
SNOWBOUND. Copyright © 2010 by Blake Crouch. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Crouch, Blake.
Snowbound / Blake Crouch.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-312-42573-9
1. Missing persons—Fiction. 2. Human trafficking—Fiction. 3. United States. Federal, Bureau of Investigation—Employees—Fiction. 4. Gangs—United States—Fiction. 5. Gangs—Mexico—Fiction. 6. Organized crime—Fiction. 7. Domestic fiction. I. Title.
PS3603.R68S66 2010
813'.6—dc22
2009047487
First Edition: July 2010
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
