Against The Wall by Dee J. Adams

Author:Dee J. Adams [Adams, Dee J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-06-18T03:36:36+00:00

She’d saved his life, but that hadn’t registered with her yet. Tanner wondered if it ever would. All she knew was that Juneau was dead and she’d killed him. Didn’t matter how inadvertent or accidental it was.

It was his fault. Tanner shouldn’t have left him alone. He should’ve watched the scumball like a hawk. But if he’d stayed in that room, he would’ve killed Juneau. Remembering all the vile comments Juneau made about Jess still had Tanner’s blood hot. Pulling the trigger and seeing the fear in Juneau’s eyes had only satisfied him a little. If he’d listened to him another minute, he’d have a put a bullet between the man’s eyes, but he’d given Jess his word so he’d stuck to it. He’d left Maurice alone for the better part of forty minutes. Forty minutes for Tanner to cool off. Forty minutes that had changed everything.

Now it was all over. He’d lost his chance. Sure, he got the result he’d come for, but even if he took the blame, which he planned to, Jess was the one who’d pulled the trigger. She was the one who had to live with it.

Tanner held Jess close against his chest as she fell apart. How the hell were they going to get out of this? He her chest rose and felld lopened the back door and set her in a chair at the kitchen table. He crouched in front of her, held her face in his hands. “Jess, we’ll figure something out.”

She yanked away from him. “How?” she roared. “How am I going to get the money if he’s dead? I can’t even deliver Maurice now.” Her flushed face twisted in horror as she shot out of the chair, forcing it over, nearly toppling Tanner too. “I’ve killed them. I killed Maurice and I may as well have killed my whole family.”

He saw Juneau’s laptop on the counter. “We still have the computer. Maybe we can—”

“Don’t you get it?” she screamed, turning on him, her eyes wide and wild. “I killed him. There’s no negotiating. No way to get my family back.” She dropped her head in her hands. “I didn’t mean to. Oh, God, I didn’t mean to.” She sank to the floor and Tanner’s heart bled as her sobs echoed in the big room. “I just wanted to scare him. He never looked at me! He didn’t see I had a gun.”

Hell, Tanner hadn’t known she’d had his gun. They’d both dismissed her, hadn’t even glanced at her. Who’d have thought Jess would pick up a gun, much less pull the trigger?

She lifted her head, her face tear-streaked and swollen. “What did you do?” she asked, accusation in her tone. “Did you purposely let him go? Did you want to fight him?”

What? “No!” Tanner bit out. “You saw him. He jumped me when you opened the door. He sawed those fucking cuffs off on his own.” Speaking of sawing, for the first time, Tanner acknowledged the wetness dampening his shirt. He tugged at the collar of his ripped T-shirt to see the bloody line from the screwdriver.

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