Gutshot Straight by Lou Berney

Author:Lou Berney
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Ex-convicts, Fiction, Fiction - General, American Contemporary Fiction - Individual Authors +, General, Suspense, Thrillers, Suspense fiction, Crime
ISBN: 9780061766046
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-09-15T07:00:00+00:00

JASPER DROVE FAST. Shake had taken his .45 after he’d hit him with the door, but Jasper still had his backup piece. He put it on the seat next to him. Jesus help the cop who pulled him over right now. Jasper was glad for the cop’s sake that no cop pulled him over.

Jasper flew across the parking lot outside Lucy’s apartment house. He’d decided what he would do. If Rock Star hadn’t finished yet, if it wasn’t over yet, Jasper would tell Lucy he suspected he loved her and did she, in light of that, want to go away with him somewhere far away?

He would promise to keep Lucy safe and respect her and treat her as an intelligent, equal human being. He would do his best to make her happy. What she considered happy, not what he did, which was a fundamental mistake he thought a lot of men made. He would try to be a good man, something at which he had no real practice but for which, when it came to her behalf, he had a sincere desire.

Jasper flew up the stairs to Lucy’s apartment. That’s what he’d decided to tell Lucy. He was prepared to face the consequences. The consequences would be Mr. Moby.

An hour ago.

If it wasn’t over yet.

Lucy’s door was closed. Jasper kicked it open, one kick, the wood splintering around the lock.

Rock Star, sitting on the sofa, jumped a foot in the air and looked up at Jasper with alarm.

“Fuck!” Then, when he saw it was Jasper, he said, “Fuck,” in a different sort of way, like he was relieved and annoyed and laughing at himself. “You scared the shit out of me, J!”

“Where is she?” Jasper said.

Rock Star shrugged. “She’s not home yet.”

Jasper felt a surge of relief like a wave lifting him onto his toes.

He was calm again; he had returned home to himself, a deeply reassuring sensation.

“Glad you’re here, my man,” Rock Star said. But Jasper could see that something was bothering him. He clicked too fast through the channels on Lucy’s TV. “But hey, listen, if it’s cool with you, Mr. Moby said I could handle this, you know? I was hoping this was going to be, like, my first real gig, you feel me?”

“I feel you,” Jasper said.

“Primo!” Rock Star said, bouncing around with delight and relief. He flipped some hair out of his eyes so he could see the TV. “Not that I don’t want you to participate, my brother. I mean, we’re going to have some fun. Party like it’s 1999, hee-hee.”

Jasper considered. “Phone book around here?”

“What? I don’t know.”

“Never mind.” Jasper decided to do it old-school, with the butt of his backup piece. He knocked Rock Star off the couch and tossed Rock Star’s gun away. Rock Star tried to crawl off and escape. He was quicker than Jasper expected, but his head was scrambled from the whack Jasper had given him, and he crawled the wrong way, into the bathroom instead of out the front door, and hit a dead end.

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