Sparks in the Darkness - A Novella. Also featuring Big Apple Pie, a Patricia FisherApple Orchard crossover story.: Blue Moon Investigations Book 19 by Steve Higgs & Chelsea Thomas

Author:Steve Higgs & Chelsea Thomas [higgs, steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-09-09T16:00:00+00:00

A New Team

It was it turned out, in fact, a rocket powered grenade the women all heard, and they got to watch as it shot over their heads. It missed the intended target – Lieutenant Danvers’ car – and hit a parked truck on the other side of the street. The effect was fairly spectacular.

Chelsea uttered the first syllables of a shocked swearword before the rest of her sentence was obliterated by the truck’s fuel tank exploding.

Patricia’s disbelieving eyes didn’t get to watch much of the expanding fireball because Barbie had hold of her arm and was running.

Patricia noted, as she flailed along behind her young friend like a flag in a running child’s hand, that Barbie also had the short blonde’s hand and she in turn held onto the hand of the older woman.

With their heads down and nothing but prayers in their heads, they ran across the alley at an angle to reach a narrow side passage. It was wide enough for pedestrians provided they didn’t try to go two abreast.

Patricia gasped for breath, but the older lady, whose name Patricia was beginning to think she really needed to learn, was struggling to keep up at all.

‘Can’t run,’ complained Miss May, wheezing and coughing. ‘These legs and hips and knees and lungs aren’t what they used to be.’

The ladies were still exposed from the rear. Trapped in the confined alleyway, if one of the armed thugs chose to fire a gun or, God forbid, an RPG, down the alley, they would all be in serious trouble.

‘We have to keep going, Miss May,’ insisted Chelsea. ‘Access your inner jogging strength. Just until we are away from here.’

Barbie, ten yards ahead because she is part gazelle and moves faster than most Olympic athletes, had the solution – what looked like the back door to a bar that she had managed to lever open.

‘In here,’ she called, gesticulating urgently for everyone to move quickly. Her dress was trashed, and her shoes were gone, abandoned behind the dumpster so she could run at speed, but even with grime on her face, she was still a drop-dead knockout.

Miss May and Chelsea hustled to catch up, Patricia holding back to make sure they got in safely.

The second Chelsea tumbled through the door, Patricia and Miss May slammed it shut, sealing the world, and however many gun-toting Chinese criminals it held, outside.

When a man’s voice swore, ‘Dang it! I have to get that alarm fixed on that door,’ all four women almost wet their panties. Except Patricia obviously who, being English, referred to her undergarment as knickers.

That’s probably a moot point though since the effect was largely the same.

Barbie, farthest from the door and thus nearest to the man, turned to find him examining her with a dangerous look on his face and a baseball bat in his hands. The bat looked like it had been used in anger more than once. He sported a bushy handlebar moustache and wore a leather doublet over a denim jacket.

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