Total pages in book: 70
Estimated words: 68937 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 345(@200wpm)___ 276(@250wpm)___ 230(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 68937 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 345(@200wpm)___ 276(@250wpm)___ 230(@300wpm)
“How?” she cried. “We just got some like two weeks ago.”
“The knobs were left on.” He tried to light the grill and nothing happened.
I smirked as he went back inside and shut the door.
For the next two hours I listened to them talk and Keely pretty much add in her two cents every once in a while.
After observing her over the last two weeks or so, I’d realized that she was a pretty quiet and reserved person. When she felt passionately about something, she was quite a bit more animated. But mostly, she stayed to herself and didn’t say all that much.
But when she did speak, what she said held substance.
I liked that she didn’t feel the need to add a lot of mindless commentary like her friends.
Every once in a while, I’d find her staring out into the darkness at me, but she never made a move toward me, always pulled back into conversations by her work friends.
By the time that the night had ended, I was more than ready to go home.
Dorie had worn on my last nerve, and I’d realized about two minutes into the night that Cutter had done a good job leaving her ass behind.
It was good to know that my brother-in-law had a brain in that thick skull of his.
“I’ll walk Kara down,” Dorie’s boyfriend, Michel, said as he got up.
A look passed between Dorie and Michel that had my eyes narrowing.
“Oh, I’m gonna go ahead and go…” Keely trailed off when Dorie said, “Wait. Could you come look at this in my room?”
I frowned and waited for Michel and Kara to leave before heading into the kitchen to get a better listen.
“…Wanted you to look at my new scrubs. They’re fantastic. Feel the fabric,” Dorie said.
“They are very nice,” Keely agreed. “Did you get them online?”
“Yeah,” she said. “These are a size too small for me, and they’re going to charge me fifteen dollars to send them back, so I was wondering if you wanted to keep them.”
“Sure, I’d love to,” Keely said. “Thank you.”
“You’re welcome,” Dorie said as she came out of her room, Keely on her heels with a pair of what had to be the scrubs in her hands.
I disappeared back outside, closing the sliding glass door almost soundlessly behind me, and started making my way down the fire escape.
It must’ve taken me a bit longer than I’d thought because by the time I’d gotten to the other side of the building, Keely was already downstairs and walking to her car.
Anger rose up inside of me that Michel would walk Kara to her car, but not do the same for Keely.
I’d just taken a step in Keely’s direction when she passed an alley two away from the one I’d just come out of.
I watched in horror as a man came out of the shadows and wrapped Keely up in his arms and lifted her off of her feet.
Keely didn’t have time to even scream as she was pulled into a dark alley with the man’s hand wrapped around her mouth.
Keely fought hard, but like she’d been telling Dorie, she was no match for a man that wanted to take her and hurt her.
I started running before I realized I was even moving, making it to the alley in time to hear a scuffle.
I pulled out my gun, took aim at the only thing that was available, and fired.
The man holding Keely fell to the ground in pain, clutching his leg. Meanwhile, I walked right up to Keely and pulled her into my arms.
She was shaking like a leaf and frozen in fright.
“Oh my god!” Dorie cried out. “Michel!”
I backed away as Dorie came around the corner and screamed when she saw…
Yep, that was Michel on the fucking ground.
What in the actual fuck?
“What did you do?” she screeched, dropping to her knees next to her bleeding man.
“What did I do?” I laughed. “I saved a woman that was getting kidnapped. What any normal, run-of-the-mill, red-blooded man would do.”
“He was just playing a joke!” she cried out.
“Fuck!” Michel cried. “What the fuck, man?”
“What the fuck?” I asked, anger starting to take root in my soul. “What, exactly, did y’all think was going to happen?”
“I didn’t think he’d get shot!” Dorie cried as she put pressure on the wound in her boyfriend’s lower leg.
I snorted. “Well, now you know.”
“You are going to jail, buddy!” She pointed at me.
“No.” I laughed darkly. “I’m not.”
“You are!” she cried.
And since she couldn’t see me clearly due to the darkness and shadows, I disappeared with Keely in my arms.
Once I had her safely ensconced in my truck, the heater running despite it being fuckin’ eighty out, I went back to the scene of the crime.
I could hear sirens blaring in the distance as I walked back into the alley.