7PM - Emily by Chris Heinicke

Author:Chris Heinicke
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery, Romantic Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense, 90 Minutes (44-64 Pages), Thriller & Suspense, Romance, Suspense, Mystery & Suspense
Publisher: Chris Heinicke
Published: 2016-06-07T00:00:00+00:00

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WE SIPPED THE less than satisfactory fluid in the mugs, and I wondered when I would taste decent coffee again. There were only two other customers inside the place apart from us, and they looked as dissatisfied as we were. At least Helen and I were free. The other two diners appeared to be wearing workwear of some sort, meaning they were wage slaves somewhere.

Helen leaned in close and whispered in my ear, “We’re getting low on funds. We need to do something.”

“I’m not selling my body to any of those freaks,” I said. One man sitting on a table opposite looked like he was fifty years old while the other man looked as though he could have possibly swallowed an elephant.

“I’m not talking about that. We’re going to take the till.”

“What?”

“Stick close to me.” She pulled the pistol from her bag and handed it to me. She dug in again and pulled out another. We walked towards the counter, and Helen got the attention of the woman serving behind it and made her come close. “Excuse me, miss?” She pressed the gun into the woman’s stomach. “I’ll be needing the contents of that cash register there.”

“Okay, I don’t want no trouble.” She pressed a button to release the cash drawer, watching Helen’s hands as she emptied it of all the paper notes.

I kept my eye on the other two customers, making sure they didn’t notice what Helen was doing. I turned as Helen put the notes in her bag, and a small flurry of motion yanked my attention away as the older diner pointed a gun our way.

“You ladies need to give Gertrude back the shop’s money. They can’t afford the insurance so if you steal that, they won’t be able to get it back,” the man said.

“You’re going to shoot two women over a stash of paper bills?” Helen asked.

“I will if I have to.”

I smiled back at him through my nerves. “Oh, how could you shoot this?” I placed a hand on my hip and kept my other hand with the gun behind my back.

“You think that pussy of yours will keep you safe, girl?” he asked.

“No,” I said. I knew I would have to do it right and couldn’t miss. I whipped my other hand from behind me and pulled back on the trigger as the gun pointed at him. He fell to the ground, landing on his ass clutching his wound.

“Oh, shit,” Helen said. “You got him in the gut, Erica.”

“You shouldn’t have given me a gun if you didn’t want me to use it. We better run, Helen.”

The man yelled as he sat in a pool of his own blood his energy too sapped to pick up his dislodged weapon.

“Bitch,” he said looking me in the eyes. His stare stayed glued to me, and I found myself unable to tear my eyes away from him.

“He’s bleeding out, Erica. You need to put him out of his misery,” Helen said.

She was right. It had to be me who did it seeing as I was the cause of the man’s pain.

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