A Shot in the Dark (A Trick of the Light Book 2) by Addison Cain

Author:Addison Cain [Cain, Addison]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Blushing Books Publications
Published: 2019-02-27T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

The Emerson boys made decent time, arriving at Radcliffe’s warehouses with an hour to spare. Jacky Brindle waited to greet them, the slimy yes-man, directing his men to unload the truck under the eye of Nathaniel and Eli. Inside, Matthew took the customary seat across from the big man in charge.

“Listen, Matthew,” Beaumont counted out stacked bills as he spoke, “we’re gonna need another two hundred gallons in four days’ time, if you can handle it.”

Matthew nodded, his eyes narrowed at the simpering Tommy standing cocky at Beaumont’s back.

“How’s Lottie?” Tommy asked, grinning like he’d just stolen another New Year’s kiss.

Matthew reached into his pocket and withdrew a cigar. Striking a match, he lit the tip of his tobacco and took a quick puff. “Seems you haven’t heard.” Pale eyes went back to Radcliffe. “Men broke into my home when Charlotte was alone, ‘bout two weeks back.”

“What the hell was she doing out there?” Tommy snarled, stepping closer. “You’re her guard dog… so fucking guard her.”

Matthew’s eyes moved slowly as they traveled past Radcliffe to lock on the hated face of the handsome gangster. “Last time you called me that I laid you flat on your ass, son.” The intensity of his gaze went back to Beaumont, though his words were for the pretty boy at his back. “I suggest you shut the fuck up and let the men speak.”

Beaumont’s smirk was gone, his lips a line. “Tommy, get out.”

Face one of disgust, Tommy crossed to the door. Once the insufferable jackass was gone, Matthew pulled the cigar from his lips and growled. “She killed them all but one. I’m looking for the son of a bitch that ran away.”

The gangster was working his jaw something fierce. “Did they have at her?”

Matthew shook his head. “She shot most of them as they came through the door. Two broke in the back, got up behind her. One wrapped his hands round her neck, banged her skull hard enough it cracked the plaster. She shot the motherfucker point blank. I’m still scraping his guts off the paint. The last one came at her with a knife, sliced her arm deep before she grazed his leg with buckshot. He ran off, but she was barely breathing by the time I made it back. Charlotte was laid up in the hospital for five days.”

Dead fury sat on Radcliffe’s face. “Lottie know who he was?”

Matthew gave the smallest of head shakes and put the cigar back between his lips. “No.”

Steepling his hands before him, Beaumont narrowed his eyes. “What does the bastard look like?”

“‘Bout my height, wiry… blond hair cut close on the sides, long on top. Thin mustache and a scar down his left cheek.”

Beaumont went through a mental list of goons who might match the description, nodding to himself as he considered. “I’ll ask around.”

“You do that.” Matthew stood and lifted his payment from the desk between them.

Leaning back in his chair, Beaumont leveled a warning at the brawny man. “You know she’ll hunt him down.

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