Killshot by Elmore Leonard

Author:Elmore Leonard
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780060512248
Publisher: HarperTorch
Published: 2008-03-12T00:00:00+00:00

“I JUST WALKED IN THE DOOR.”

“How was it? You have any trouble?” “It wasn’t bad. When did you get there?” “Four a.m. I got up at seven, had a shower. At

the moment I’m having some ice cream. Butter

scotch ripple.” “Are we a little hung over?” “You took the aspirin with you. That was a

cruel thing to do, you know it?” “Wayne, why don’t you leave as soon as you

can. In case Ferris stops by.” “He already has. He’s here right now.” “You mean he’s right there, in the kitchen?” “No, in the bathroom. I think his jaw’s broken,”

Wayne said and told her about it. Carmen listened. She said, “Wayne, you better

get out of there, now.” “Soon as I clean out the refrigerator.” As he said it, and told her he didn’t see a prob

lem, he’d ask Ferris if he wanted him to call Emergency Medical or the cops, Carmen was aware of a humming sound, familiar, one she was used to, and turned from the sink to look at the refrigerator. The door was closed and it was running. Wayne was telling her now he planned to keep his foot on the gas all the way and try to make it in ten and a half hours, set a new Cape to Algonac speed record.

“We turned off the refrigerator,” Carmen said, “didn’t we? I mean the one here.”

“We shut everything off but the phone.”

“Well, somebody turned it on.” She paused, listening. “Wayne, I think the furnace is going.”

“Check the thermostat.”

“I can feel it. It’s warm in here.”

“Maybe Nelson had the house open, trying to sell it. I wouldn’t put it past him.”

“Maybe,” Carmen said, looking across the kitchen to what had been a pantry and now was Wayne’s closet, where he kept his hunting and fishing gear, stacks of outdoor magazines. She listened to him speculate, Nelson gets an offer and the next thing they know he’s trying to sell them a two-bedroom over at Wildwood, your choice of decorator colors. The shotgun must be in there, in Wayne’s closet. It had to be, they didn’t take it with them. The closet would be locked and the key was on the ring with the rest of his keys, in her purse.

“Call your buddy Nelson and ask him.”

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She’d get the shotgun out and put it by the door. It startled her, all of a sudden remembering the two guys.

“Carmen?”

“I will. I have to call Mom first.”

“You gonna be home when I get there?”

“I’ll see how she is.”

“Get her permission.”

“If I can leave her, I will. Okay? That’s the best I can do.”

“You get pissed off at Mommy and lay into me.”

“I’m tired,” Carmen said.

“Call the State Police, that detective, whatever his name is. Tell him you’re home.”

“I will. Hurry, okay?”

“I’ll see you about six, six-thirty. We’ll probably need a few things, huh, some beer?”

“It’s weird,” Carmen said, looking around the kitchen. She saw the oven door open a few inches.

“What is?”

“I don’t know—the feeling. I walked in, it wasn’t like coming back to a house that’s been closed up.

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