Today’s
excerpt is from Too Many Women, a stand alone book featuring several new
characters, as well as Jim Scott and friends.
Horace kills one bad guy, but even though they hit the departing car of
another he gets away. Enjoy and have a wonderful day.
m.j.
By then Bill was
at the access road, with Leo not far behind.
Horace looked over the scene carefully.
“Okay, the guy I shot at is down from the tree, just lying on the
ground, not moving. I’ve see a bit of
foliage movement, but not who’s causing it.
My guess is he’s seen the condition of the guy I shot and is getting
outta Dodge. He’s moving from my right
to my left.”
Bill muttered,
“There’s a small pond down that way—probably where they parked their car. Hold it…I hear the car starting up.”
Getting no
response nor expecting one, Bill aimed his rifle in the general direction of
the noise from the car he’d heard. He
fired off one shot just as Leo stopped next to him. Both men heard the sound of shattering
glass. Leo looked in the direction Bill
was aiming—and also heard the car moving in addition to the glass shattering
sound. He began shooting in the same
general direction as Bill. Both men hit
the car in various places and, in addition to thuds of rounds hitting the car
body, they also heard more glass shattering.
Burras was
beside himself with fear as shots were tearing the car to pieces. He had a few small cuts from flying glass, in
spite of the safety standards of such glass.
He knew his only hope was to keep heading back to the highway above his
present location. Assuming Bob was at
least one of the guys shooting at him, he decided the best place for him to be
was elsewhere. Hookings and Carnahan had
been very clear about what they had seen at Bob’s office. Boxer was probably dead…and he wanted no part
of Mr. Bob Becker.
When he reached
where the incline headed up to the highway, he kept right on going, traffic be
damned. At that point, Bill reached over
and pulled Leo’s weapon back, away from the fleeing car. “Better stop shooting. Guy’s getting near the highway—we might hit
an innocent if we keep firing.”
Leo nodded, then
got back in his buggy to drive in the direction of the quite dead J.C.
Boxer. Bill thought a second, took out
his phone, and called a private number at the Wentzville Police station that
belonged to the Chief of Police. He was
relieved when the Chief answered the call.
“Chief, this is Bill Hedden—got a mess on our hands out at Bob’s
place. Guess you heard about the
shoot-out at Bob’s office. Well, we’re
watching the lady the guys there were after.
Some joker just took a shot at her.
Thankfully he missed…and one of the two fellas we got helping us out
plugged him. Says he may be dead. Meanwhile another jerk got into a car near
the pond, out front of our place. Me and
another of our security team plugged the car several times, but the guy driving
it got away. Could you get some of your
people headed this way, with the word out to be on a lookout for a shot-up
car?”
“Right away,
Bill. I’ll come out myself…and I’ll get
an ambulance on the way, too. See you in
a few minutes.”
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