Final Justice: A mystery and suspense stand alone crime thriller by JK Ellem

Author:JK Ellem [Ellem, JK]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 28th Street Multimedia Group
Published: 2024-12-06T00:00:00+00:00

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FIFTY YARDS

A woman’s scream from the rear of the house cut through the night air, and Alex’s hand went instinctively to her gun.

Someone burst through the dense foliage that choked the rear of the homestead. They stumbled into the clearing, then stopped. A man, but she didn’t know for certain from where she was standing among the trees on the opposite side of the clearing.

Alex watched as he began running with a wobbly, drunken gait toward the barn. He fell to his knees, got up, and kept going. Was he injured? Had he been shot? Was it Ben? Questions tumbled into her head as she watched.

It couldn’t be Dean Mason, Alex knew. The size and shape were all wrong. The person was lean, not bulky.

Then, the nape of her neck went crazy at the sight of the stumbling stranger.

Ben?

She didn’t want to break cover until she knew with absolute certainty that it was him. She still had Dean Mason to contend with, and he could be anywhere. His cold, abrasive demeanor when he came to the front door earlier left no doubt in Alex’s mind that he would shoot her without hesitation for trespassing and worry about the consequences later.

Alex was watching the stumbling man when he suddenly vanished. One minute he was there; the next, he was gone.

A woman burst from the thick foliage at the rear of the house—from the same spot the man had. She was carrying something in her hand. A flashlight. No—something else with a long handle. She paused, and her head swiveled around. Then, she set off again toward the barn, following the same path the man had followed just moments before he disappeared.

Then, to her horror, Alex watched something emerge out of the ground. Like a corpse crawling out of a grave, a dark shape rose in front of the woman, forcing her to stop.

Alex’s fingers closed around the butt of her handgun, and she drew it out of its holster. She brought it up two-handed and aimed at the woman.

The man who had crawled out of the ground rolled onto his back. He must have fallen into a pit, some kind of hole, and had climbed out.

Alex stepped out of the trees, the gun up and in front, still aiming at the shape of the woman, and began closing the distance.

The woman was now standing over the man, talking to him. Alex couldn’t make out what she was saying. They were arguing, though. She could tell. The woman’s posture was threatening, and she hadn’t offered to help the man up. The man had been running from her, and now she had caught him.

Alex slowed her breathing and began adding pressure to her trigger finger. It was a tough shot. Fifty yards, she estimated, and at night.

The woman switched to a two-handed grip and raised the object above her head. Moonlight glinted off the tip of the object.

Alex’s heart beat faster when she saw the ax clearly in the woman’s hands.

Her aim wavered, the gun's front sight moving in and out of the woman’s silhouette shape.

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