Michelle fired one last shot. BLAM!
She was sure she had hit her target and equally sure the driver was still in shape to drive as the Lincoln disappeared into a blur of taillights.
A woman, thrown from the back door of the car when it had slowed, scrambled on her hands and knees across the parking lane and up onto the sidewalk. By the time she made it up on the sidewalk Michelle was there.
It was Bunny.
Michelle dropped down on her knees and grabbed the woman by the shoulders. “Bunny, Bunny! It’s me Michelle. Bunny, look at me!”
Bunny’s eyes were huge and wild, but focused on Michelle. Then she grabbed Michelle and held on tight. “Oh God, I thought he was gonna kill me. I thought I was dead.” She repeated herself several times.
Michelle held her close and tight. “Bunny, you’re safe here with me now. You’re here now. I’ve got you.”
Her adrenalin kicking in, Bunny started crying and violently shaking.
Michelle took the woman by the shoulders, held her at arms-length and forced her to look at her. “Bunny, listen to me. Check your body. Are you hurt bad anywhere? Are you cut, or shot? You might not have noticed it. Focus now. Look at me. Here. Bunny Look in my eyes. Who am I?”
Through her sobs Bunny said, “Michelle.”
“That’s right. I’m Michelle. Now, are you hurt? Have you been stabbed or shot?”
“No. I’m not shot,” Bunny managed to say through her sobs and gasping breaths. Her violent full-body shaking continued. “He kept holding his knife on my throat. He told me he killed Little-T with it.”
Michelle held Bunny’s chin and turned her face to look at both sides of her neck.
“Oh God, I was so scared,” Bunny said. “I knew he was going to kill me. He kept hitting me. Then he said he was sorry and would hit me again. Michelle you have to kill this sick bastard. You have to kill him for me.”
Michelle pulled her in close and hugged her tight. T-Dog ran up, 9mm next to her leg, and stood lookout over the two women kneeling on the sidewalk. For a long moment Bunny and Michelle hugged, Bunny sobbing and shaking, Michelle repeating, “I’ve got you. I’ve got you now.”
Bunny pulled back from Michelle’s embrace. “I’m serious. You’ve gotta get him. He said if you don’t leave, he’ll kill all of us. You need to find him and kill him. You need to kill him for me.”
“I will. That’s a promise. I will.”
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Acknowledgements
It’s true, writing is a lonely business. It’s also true a book is only as good as the whole team who helped to make it what it is. Thank you, Kimberly Grenfell at http://goldenstandardediting.blogspot.com for your amazing insightful editing. Ed Benjamin for constant support and often commiseration at all levels. Thank you, Stephen Campbell, of www.theauthorbiz.com for your insights that were only matched by your generosity. To my family, thanks for your daily support and constant good cheer. Your smiles every morning make the many long hours every day worth it all.
Dedication
To Tre . . .
The first, a unique gentle soul, strong and resilient . . .
You are our heart, our legacy.
Final Note
The first five of the Michelle Angelique books were previously published under a pen name with different titles. Jason Stanley is my real name and with help from my wife, Pjae, I wrote all of the books in the series.
Copyright
HARD BETRAYAL
Dyslexic Dog Publishing
Copyright © 2017 by Jason Stanley.
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-9716609-6-0
Edited by Kimberly Granfell
Cover by Pjae Stanley
All characters and situations are fictional. Any resemblance to real people, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
This is fully copyrighted material with all domestic and international rights of reproduction and sales belonging to the author. If you find you’re the illegal recipient of this book, kindly do me a couple favors. Please tell your friends how much you enjoyed reading Hard Betrayal and encourage them to purchase it at Amazon.com. Also, check my Amazon Author page for my other books, and buy the rest of the Michelle Angelique series. Help a working guy out . . . I worked for many months without pay to write and edit this book. Like you, my bills still have to be paid. Unlike Michelle Angelique, I am not a skilled assassin and my wife refuses to become a budding madam, so writing is how I earn the income to pay those pesky bills.
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