Trinity Trio (The Bill Travis Mysteries Book 14) by George Wier

Author:George Wier [Wier, George]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Flagstone Books
Published: 2017-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

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I don’t always know when something isn’t right, but sometimes a situation can have a slippery feel to it. A certain quality to it that makes the little hairs on the back of my neck stand at attention. It’s a ‘something missing’ sort of thing—the sense that a camouflaged hole is waiting somewhere on the path ahead.

Before leaving the storage building, I stopped.

Tanya was already outside. Loraine was three paces ahead of me and about to step outside. She must have detected the absence of my footfalls behind her because she turned to face me. I still had the flashlight pointed at the floor with my right hand and my left wrapped around the sack of money, holding it to my chest. It wasn’t, by any stretch of the imagination, light in weight.

“What?” Loraine asked.

I clicked the light off, hoping that I was in total darkness from their perspective. The outside light spilling into the place from the tall light poles scattered around the grounds stopped no more than a foot in front of me.

“I just realized something,” I said.

“And what, pray tell, is that?” Tanya asked from outside, no more than twenty feet away.

I carefully set the sack of money down in the darkness beside me, and traded the flashlight for the .44 pistol. “Not much. It’s just that Loraine is the sheriff’s wife. That Abner is also related to her. That you two are best friends. And also that I’m trespassing in a storage facility based upon a whole load of speculation. Speculation, that is, coming from both of you.”

“What don’t you believe about what we’ve said?” Loraine asked. “And why did you turn your light off?”

“I believe everything and nothing,” I said. “I also note that my partner isn’t here with me. He’s a whole hell of a lot smarter than me. He can smell a bad situation from miles away.” And then, just to telegraph the gravity of my suspicion, I cocked the pistol.

The cocking of a large pistol is productive of a series of extremely audible clicks. The sound is unmistakable. It’s the equivalent of a rattlesnake’s rattle starting up from beneath the baby’s blanket.

“Shit,” Tanya said. “He knows.”

“Shut up!” Loraine said. She quickly stepped backwards and outside.

“You wouldn’t shoot an unarmed woman.” Tanya said.

“Unarmed?” I said. “Where’s the shotgun, Tanya? You had it when we came through the fence. I don’t see it on you now.”

“I set it against the outside of the door. I don’t think it would be healthy for me to get it at the moment, seeing as you’ve gone all suspicious on me.”

“You may be right about that. Tell me who’s waiting out there for me, besides you two.”

“Her husband.” Tanya said, gesturing to Loraine, who stood half a dozen feet to her right, closer to the center of the outsized overhead door. “A couple of deputies. Probably Abner is with them.”

“Shut up, Tanya,” Loraine said. “I swear, if you get anybody killed...”

“You know what I think?” Tanya said. “I think we made a wrong decision here somewhere.

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