CHAPTER 26: CARLOS
As one ages, his/her tolerance for pain increases. Some are born with a high tolerance for painful situations. Others develop their high tolerance for pain over time. Carlos fit both descriptions. However, the one thing that Carlos could not and would not tolerate was someone hurting a member of his family, especially his oldest daughter. She was the apple of his eye.
Carlos had carried hate and mistrust of his oldest daughter’s high school boyfriend for over thirty years. He had gotten his revenge, or so he thought. It did not satisfy the trained assassin's lust for blood that he had killed the man who had been responsible for his daughter's mistrust of 48% of the population. That is, until she met the one man whom she felt she could trust. She had married him, with her father's blessing. Carlos still did not feel that justice had been served. The only thing that could satisfy his appetite for revenge, he decided, was to kill the man's whole family.
Carlos decided that he would start with the two oldest since they were visiting the same country in which he now resided. Afterward, he would return to Texas and seek out the twin brothers. He just had to be patient enough to catch the two siblings with their guard down. This would be easier with the daughter, he thought, than with the very large oldest son. She was very trusting of others. She had been born with a sweet disposition. The son, on the other hand, seemed to always be guarded around others. It may have been the way he was born, or it may have been his very unusual early upbringing. It did not matter to Carlos. He just wanted revenge.
Little did Carlos know that the son had enlisted the help of his biological half- sister, a former Army Ranger who had been trained as a long-range sniper, to help him find the man who had murdered his parents. The purported hunter was, instead, the hunted.
Comments