Win some, lose most, Covenant series, book six...
"What’s about to happen, is just another moment in an endless string of moments left to endure. When you’ve finally seen hell, experienced it and been left vacant in the wake of what hell takes on its way out the door. Well, anything and everything is endurable after the death you welcomed but never came for you."
"Torture is just another routine process when the end of things ducked out and evaded his looked-for online hook up out in the Nevada desert."
"Nick laughs and kicks at the single box of newsprint. “Well, it’s just you and me and a box of fucking newspapers. You got any smart words now? No? How about extra time to listen to long hair music while you stare at bullshit? No? None of that either huh? You’re welcome you terrorist sack of shit! I let that goon from yesterday do the work for me. He wanted your voice box out, like that makes a difference. I want you to do more than be quiet for once, you miserable son of a bitch. I want you to suffer. Suffer like our boys did.”
"The fat sack of shit pulls one of the newspapers free from the box and disappears behind him. It isn’t until he feels stiff fingers pulling at and opening his eyes while other hands fold up a single sheet of news print that he begins to understand what’s about to happen."
“You shouldn’t have talked to Stacey, or anyone else here, something like you shouldn’t be allowed to lick shit off a boot much less talk to anyone.”
"Agent fat fuck tears pieces off the newspaper left for him to read before he slowly drags the finer edge of the newspaper along his tightly shut eye lids. When those nicks and paper cuts stop eliciting the anguished grimaces and grunts that fat fuck requires, he yanks open one of those stubborn eyes and this new iteration is forced to accept the inevitable. Hell is repetitions sure, but hell itself is something worse eating off the truly familiar. Hell is agent Nick dragging a piece of jagged newsprint across one of his watery eyes while he realizes that he has no mouth but he surely must scream."