Dangerous Secrets by Lyn Cote

Author:Lyn Cote
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2007-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

After his abortive interview with Milo, Ridge really had no solid reason to stop and go inside Ollie’s convenience store. He didn’t need to buy anything there. But he needed to kill time before having to go home to eat supper once more with his silent parents. In his short time here, he’d tightened his belt a notch. The morose silence during each meal made everything his mother cooked taste like shredded newspaper.

And Ollie’s store beckoned him because he’d also been thinking that he wanted to see Tanya Hendricks in another setting, away from the sheriff’s interrogation room. And it seemed his only other choice was Tanya at work. Her odd behavior and evasiveness that he’d observed while Keir was questioning her had kept niggling him at the back of his mind. Could they be signs of guilt?

He pulled up to one of Ollie’s gas pumps and filled his tank, his back to the harsh wind. Then he ambled inside as if he had all the time in the world.

As he wandered through the neat aisles, he watched Tanya out of the corner of his eye. She’d washed up marginally cleaner for work and her royal-blue knit shirt with the little embroidered lighthouse logo looked freshly laundered. He expected her to recognize him, glower at him and watch him hostilely. She didn’t. She seemed totally oblivious to him. Was she on drugs at work?

The back door of the convenience store slammed open. Instinctively, Ridge hunkered down between aisles. “Hands up!” a male voice ordered.

Ridge reached inside his coat for his shoulder holster and lifted out the Glock there. He looked up to one of the large moon-shaped mirrors positioned at each corner of the store to frustrate shoplifters. What he saw did not make him happy.

A lean man of medium height with a black snowmobiling mask pulled over his face was threatening Tanya with a sawed-off shotgun. “Open that cash drawer! Now!” the man shouted, waving the shotgun.

Tanya appeared petrified. She wasn’t even blinking.

Ridge didn’t make a move. He didn’t want to begin shooting up Ollie’s convenience store. Especially since he doubted that Tanya would obey his command to drop to the floor. If shots were exchanged, there was a good probability that she would be hit and perhaps killed.

And the masked robber appeared twitchy and nervous. Was the guy on speed? He stuck the barrel of the shotgun right between Tanya’s eyebrows. “Open that cash drawer! Now!”

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