No Return by Nolon King & David W Wright

Author:Nolon King & David W Wright [King, Nolon & Wright, David W]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sterling & Stone
Published: 2018-05-11T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 27 - Mallory Black

Mal stared at the TV, watching Ashley at age three, giggling a raspy laugh as her mother tickled her.

“Stop it, Mommy!”

Mal would stop, then Ashley would say, “Again!”

Mal tickled her, and so it went for several minutes until the video cut to Ashley pointing to her picture book. “He still doesn’t see the birdie on his head!”

Mal wiped tears from her eyes as she finished her wine, then stopped the video and stood. She grabbed her gun from beside her on the couch, carried it with her to the bathroom, and set it on the sink counter. She looked at herself in the mirror and laughed. “Getting drunk in the middle of the day watching videos of Ashley is not helping you find Jessi.”

But what else could she do?

She thought about calling Colleen but couldn’t deal with her in such a hopeless mood. Besides, she was sure that Mike, and likely an FBI agent or two, were giving Colleen the necessary attention, lying to buoy her spirits. And Mal definitely wasn’t in the mood to lie.

All she could think about was the cold hard truth — the longer Jessi was missing, the less likely they were to find her alive. And that didn’t even take into account the odds when a super predator like Paul Dodd pursued a girl he had already victimized.

She stared in the mirror, wishing it were a magical portal to look in on Dodd. “What are you doing to her, you sick bastard?”

Breaking glass downstairs snapped Mal to attention. She grabbed her gun and went to the stairs, listening as she slowly descended.

Did a glass fall? Or was Dodd coming to get her?

Let him fucking come!

I’ve got something for you!

Mal aimed her gun as she reached the bottom floor, searching for the noise, scanning every corner, checking the doors.

The front door was open.

Fuck!

Her shoulders tightened. So did her grip as she strained to hear movement.

Something hit the ground in front of her with a hard thud, then rolled.

She looked down to see a grenade, then bolted toward the door, to put as much distance between herself and the explosion. But the detonation never came.

Instead, another grenade landed at her feet, and gas spilled out, filling her field of vision.

No!

She choked on the smoke, her eyes stinging. Then she covered her mouth and crawled toward the door.

But Mal was disoriented and had lost the exit behind a wall of smoke.

She couldn’t move at all.

And then she fell.

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