Showdown by Amy Elizabeth

Author:Amy Elizabeth
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3
Tags: Nightmare
Publisher: Amy Elizabeth
Published: 2014-04-23T04:00:00+00:00

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Alec’s mood had yet to improve when he awoke early the following morning. His shoulder was still screaming from his fall the previous day, but he swallowed a few painkillers and shoved the thought from his mind. He entered the kitchen to find Dakota waiting for him, playfully extending her paw for him to shake. On any other morning, the sight would have made him smile.

He was fairly certain, though, that nothing could make him smile today.

He gave the dog a distracted pat before he forced down a quick breakfast and filled his Thermos with coffee. As he made his way onto the back porch, he noticed that Rebecca’s truck was missing. With a frown, he turned to look at the parking lot, only to spot her truck down by the lodge. Why had she parked down there? Maybe she’d realized that he would need his vehicle this morning and she didn’t want to block him in.

He climbed into his truck and backed down to the storage shed, where he found Tommy stacking gigantic spools of barbed wire.

“Morning,” he greeted.

“Morning,” Alec echoed.

He was in no frame of mind to talk, so he was glad when their conversation ended there. They loaded the barbed wire into Tommy’s truck and the fence posts into Alec’s; then they made the short drive to the back paddocks. They worked in silence for most of the morning, ripping out the old fence posts and replacing them with new ones. Then they collected the rusted strands of barbed wire and started unloading the new spools from Tommy’s truck.

Soon the sun was high in the sky, transforming the frozen ground into muddy brown slush. Alec cursed when the post he was holding slipped from his grasp–for the third time–and hit the ground, sending a splatter of mud in his direction. He yanked the wire to right the post, only to have the barbs pierce through his glove. Another curse escaped his mouth when he removed his glove and saw the blood seeping from his palm.

“You okay?” Tommy asked.

He nodded and replaced his glove, unconcerned with the stain that would soon appear. Tommy helped him stabilize the post before he cleared his throat.

“You and Bec get up to anything yesterday?”

“Nah,” Alec replied. “I stayed in, but she went out with the girls.”

Tommy didn’t look up from the wire he was tightening. “You sure about that?”

A cold shiver traveled down Alec’s spine. He stopped mid-motion and turned to Tommy, who’d looked at him at the same time.

“She never went into town,” Tommy added. “I found her down in the lounge.”

Alec was taken aback. “When?”

“’Bout twelve-thirty.”

That explained why her truck was parked there…but why would she have gone there in the first place? Alec racked his brain for a logical conclusion, but there wasn’t one. She wasn’t upset when she left last night, was she? No. She seemed perfectly calm.

“I don’t know,” he finally said. “Maybe her plans fell through. She didn’t mention anything to me.”

Tommy turned back to the wire.

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