Dusty by Kathi S. Barton

Author:Kathi S. Barton [Barton, Kathi S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-10-18T23:22:20+00:00

“Now, why the hell would you think that I should know. I barely know you, and that’s too much for one person to put up with.” She seemed confused, and he didn’t elaborate. “Well? When are you leaving?”

“I asked you a question. And I’m going to stand right here until you answer me. I know that you took him. One of you did, anyway. He’s not answering his phone, nor is he coming home when I leave him a message.” Still, Dusty stood there, not saying a single word to her. When she raised her cane up, he took an aggressive step in her direction. She lowered it slowly then. “Where is Scott?”

“I haven’t any idea where he is. I didn’t know that anyone would care about a nearly thirty-five-year-old man. He’s single, so perhaps he’s out looking to get laid.” She lifted the cane about halfway up but didn’t put it down again. “I’m a grown man, too, and if you think I’m going to allow you to hit me with that cane and not retaliate, then you’re a bigger fool than I thought you were.”

“I want my son. I’m not going to ask you again.” He told her that repeating herself was sort of trying anyway. “Damn you, boy. Tell me where he is.”

“I don’t know.” He pulled out his cell phone and dialed the police. “You can leave now, and I won’t have to have you arrested, or you can hang around here, and when my wife gets home, she can shoot you for trespassing. Again. Now leave—” The police answered, and he told them what he had going on.

“We’re out and about that way anyway, Dusty. We’ll swing by and help you remove the woman. You say she just barged in?” He didn’t but thought it was funny that they understood the problem. “We’ll just have to run her in again if she’s there when we get there.”

She was still standing in his living room when the police showed up. After telling her to leave his home, Alma told the police that he’d kidnapped her son. The men around started laughing and snickering when she asked what they were going to do about it.

“Nothing. He’s a grown man.” The third time that had been said to her today. “I doubt very much that anyone has him locked up in their home, Mrs. Landry. You go on home, and the rest of us will pray that he’s finally gotten some balls of his own and that he’s lit out of here and never returns.”

She left after Shipley showed up. Not willingly, but she was gone all the same. It might have been because Shipley pulled her gun out and said that she’d help the police remove her from their home, but he wasn’t sure. He didn’t know but was thrilled to be able to lock the door behind that nasty old woman and be with his pretty new wife.

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