Guns and Ammo and Murder by Patti Larsen

Author:Patti Larsen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: murder mystery, cozy mystery series, female cozy mystery, female sleuth murder mystery
Publisher: Patti Larsen

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Chapter Nineteen

I think I knew I was full of crap even before the words left my mouth. And I really was out of line doing the whole arresting thing like that. But it was like I was possessed, taken over by the demon of the woman scorned, the less worldly and more naive Fee Fleming who trusted this piece of trash for years only to have her heart torn out, thrown on the ground, stomped and discarded with the level of disdain most people reserve for a cockroach.

Speaking of cockroaches, Ryan blinked at me before his face flared red, those high cheekbones lit with his anger, eyes flashing. It sucked he was still so pretty, really. Come to think of it, I’d done a number on my old nemesis, Vivian, when we were kids, taking the stuffing out of her in defense of Daisy—not to mention giving her a satisfying gusher of a nosebleed—when I’d broken her schnoz. There was nothing saying I couldn’t offer a love tap right here and now, right? Who’d stop me? I was a deputy. I could always say he was trying to escape.

Fee, oh Fee. Get over it already.

It took Jill grasping my arm in one strong hand and tugging me with some force to her side to keep me from giving my plan a go. When had I become so irrational? Oh, right, when I caught the guy I thought I was going to marry in bed with another woman in our apartment, taking over my life, wiping out my happiness with a single, startling moment of awareness and awakening I’d gladly let him share the memory of with a firm and painful knee to his sensitive places. He’d earned it, right? Let him truly experience how I felt in the very place he seemed to value over my heart.

“Mr. Richards, is it?” Jill didn’t smile, wasn’t throwing me under the bus. Nope, not in the least. In fact, she seemed pretty serious about my accusation and took a step closer to him, bless her, frown pulling her brows together, her feminine yet physically intimidating presence making him back off, the coward. “I’m assuming Fee has a reason for her attempted arrest?”

Ryan rubbed at the spot on his chest where I’d poked him, the baby, like it still hurt. Boo freaking hoo. His own scowl deepened but he answered her with the twinge of a whine I’d been so grateful to escape once I realized who he really was. “I have no idea,” he said. “Grayson was my boss and I’m only here because he invited me to come.” He stuck out his jaw in my direction, petulant little-boy face no longer endearing or adorable but annoyingly trite. “If I’d known she was here I would have stayed home or advised Mr. Gallinger to dump this trip all together.” Eddie hissed under his breath but Ryan didn’t seem to notice he’d just stabbed his old college buddy in the back. Just like Ryan, no change there.

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