Preview Dealer's Choice, Chpt 1, entry #10 (final entry)

When she put her thumb on the hammer, he arched away.

“Now hold on, sugar. No need for that. I ain’t here to cause trouble. Just a man lookin’ to collect what’s owed him.”

The visible bob of his Adam’s apple satisfied her immensely—so much so that she didn’t even mind when he reached out a single finger to carefully nudge the gun barrel to one side.

“I don’t like guns. Especially aimed at me.”

“Then I suggest you leave.”

“And I’ll do just that—soon as I get to talk to your brother.”

As their eyes locked, Caroline calculated the consequences of bloodshed over truce.

Truce, she finally decided, lowering the heavy pistol back to her side. Cautious truce. 

“So—is he home or not?”

“Not.”

She’d never know if it was an inadvertent glance that betrayed her or the fact that the library doors were the only closed ones in sight, but he was already reaching for a knob.

“I told you he’s not here!”

She tried to dart in front of him, but he was quicker. A twist of the knob, a push on the panel over her head, and one of the doors swung inward.

Jammed together in the opening, they both froze in place.

Fancy leather boots dangled on a level with their faces.

He’s had them resoled, she thought inanely. Then, like a locomotive hurtling out of a dark tunnel, the grisly truth slammed into her, crushing her. The world tilted and she fell to her knees. If the gun fell from her hand, she wasn’t aware of it, never heard it hit the floor. No sound came to her ears, no thought to her mind—just spots before her eyes as she pitched forward into the void.

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