Steel Rain: A Military Romance Collection by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-11-11T22:00:00+00:00

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After Elle leaves, I head to the market to pick up some groceries. It’s just on dusk when I place the paper sacks in the trunk and Nuke and I swing by the Pier Park Fountain. The area is cordoned off with police tape, and though it was bustling with townsfolk only eight hours ago, it’s eerily quiet tonight. Before long, the police will be knocking on my door. It makes sense. Elle will be their first port of call, but we’ve set some tongues waggin’ around this town these last few weeks, and I’d bet my last penny they already have me lined up in their sights.

Course it don’t help that I know how to fire a rifle and hit a long-range mark from four thousand miles away. It’s only natural I’d be a person of interest, but I didn’t do this, so I don’t know why my hands start to shake on the wheel, or why my breath comes in heavy pants as I stare at the fountain now drained dry of all its water.

Nuke whines and places his head in my lap, and I just sit there, shakin’ like a leaf. Before long, the windows fog with my breath and I turn the dial and blast the AC, but it don’t stop the sweat from beading on my forehead or unease from prickling down my spine.

I was with Elle last night, and I may have wanted to, but I couldn’t have done this. I’d remember killing a man on US soil.

I didn’t do this.

I repeat the words over and over in my head, but after a while, even I stop believing them.

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