Fire and ice (Jude Hardin) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги

10:48 a.m

K-Rad drove by his childhood home on the dirt road behind the plant. He stopped and put the car in park. He just wanted to look at his old house for a minute, to see it one last time. School hadn’t started yet, and there were three boys in the front yard running gleefully through a sprinkler. They were probably second graders, about seven years old. K-Rad remembered doing the same thing when he was that age. Such a simple thing, but such fun.

The house hadn’t changed much since K-Rad was a kid. White clapboard siding, red shingle roof, swing on the front porch. It really wasn’t such a bad little house after all. Lots of fond memories there. Too bad it still belonged to the greedy motherfuckers at Nitko.

“Hey, mister. Take a picture-it’ll last longer,” one of the boys shouted. The others laughed.

K-Rad put the car in gear and drove on. Brats. If they only knew what was going to happen to them at eleven. If they only knew.