The Knitting Dilemma (The Time Travel Talisman Cozy Mystery Book 2) by Vella Day

Author:Vella Day [Day, Vella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Erotic Reads Publishing
Published: 2023-05-28T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

My ears rang from the sound of the gunshot and the shattering of the window. Thankfully, no flying glass hit me. Never having been anywhere near violence, I wasn’t sure what to do. Okay, I knew I should get the heck out of there, but my body was not cooperating. I seemed to be frozen to the sidewalk.

“Ladies, let’s go,” Pablo shouted. “Follow me.”

He took off running, and Millie trotted behind him. Me? I had to force myself to move as fast as I could. The only plus was that with the adrenaline rushing through my system, I wasn’t really paying much attention to my knees.

Then another shot rang out, and I covered my head with my hands, not that it would do a lot of good. What the heck was going on? Certainly, no one would be shooting at us. Or were they? If so, they must have mistaken us for someone else.

“Come on, Edith.” Pablo rushed back to me, firmly grabbed hold of my arm, and dragged me forward.

Shouts sounded behind us. When the footsteps grew closer, Pablo stopped, ripped open some door, and practically shoved me inside. Pablo then Millie followed me in.

We appeared to be in a long hallway that was dimly lit. “Where are we?”

“This walkway cuts through to the street. I’ve used it once or twice. Come on.”

I had hoped that the shooters either didn’t see where we went, or they were after someone else and wouldn’t follow us. Pablo didn’t seem to share my optimistic opinion, because he took hold of my arm again and tried to run with me in his grasp.

I pumped my legs as fast as they would go, but my lungs weren’t able to catch up. “I need to rest.” Just then, the door we’d entered through opened. This was bad. They were coming. “I’m good,” I told him.

Not really. However, I had little choice but to move if I wanted to live.

Pablo yanked open a side door inside the walkway corridor. “Go.”

I hustled inside. It was dark and quiet. “Did we lose them?” I asked with hope in my voice.

“Probably not.”

“Who are they?” Millie asked, sounding quite in control. I had to hand it to her. She was doing better than I was.

“I don’t know.” Pablo pulled open another door that led to a set of stairs. “Go on. We’ll hide up here.”

He seemed to know where he was going, and yet now wasn’t the time to question him. Using all of my energy, I climbed the twelve steps to the top—not that I was counting or anything. I fumbled with the handle for a moment and then managed to push the door open.

Oh, whoa. We were backstage of some theater. Millie stepped next to me and then Pablo moved to my other side.

“We should be safe here,” he said.

I inhaled and slightly relaxed, until I looked on stage. There were about thirty performers. Two things struck me as not being the norm for a show. One was the fact that several of the women were not covered above the waist.

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