The Man Who Walks Away by Dan Ames

Author:Dan Ames
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Slogan Books LLC

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She had two first names and was relentlessly teased about it. Katy Sally was a fitness enthusiast with a fairly large Instagram following, currently training for a triathlon in California.

Always a strong swimmer and cyclist, she was focusing on her running, which explained why she was alone in the canyons just south of Death Valley, pounding along a deserted highway with the sun beating down on her.

When she’d crested the hill the motorhome parked along the side of the road caught her attention. Being a woman, alone, in the middle of nowhere was always problematic. However, she had a canister of pepper spray, as well as a tiny pocket knife held snugly in a small pocket inside her running shorts.

Without breaking stride, Katy Sally found the pepper spray canister and unsnapped it from the belt at her waist so it was in her hand. She rotated it to put the trigger under her finger, just in case a kidnapper jumped from the rear of the motorhome and tried to drag her inside.

It was a crazy idea, but there were plenty of true stories that were even worse.

Running downhill, she picked up speed and passed the motorhome, keeping it in view out of the corner of her eye.

Which is how she saw the body sprawled facedown on the far side of the motorhome, near the front bumper.

A trick, she thought.

Katy bore down and ran even faster, but in her mind’s eye she saw the pool of blood around the body and slowed.

Finally, she stopped and looked back.

She saw the first body.

And behind it, a second.

No matter how much her instincts told her to keep running, she ignored them and slowly walked back toward the motorhome.

She stopped twenty feet from the sight of the carnage, and unsnapped the case holding her phone firmly against her midsection. She powered the phone on and saw she had two bars of signal strength.

Enough to call 9-1-1.

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