Blown Away (Nowhere, USA Book 6) by Ninie Hammon

Author:Ninie Hammon [Hammon, Ninie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sterling & Stone
Published: 2021-02-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

Malachi faced the deranged father of a dead teenager — the grandfather of the baby she carried — and knew it would do no good to argue with him. Duncan Norman was way past the ability to reason. Nothing Malachi said would convince him that Malachi had not … what was it he was babbling, ravished his precious baby girl. From the little pieces of coherent thought in the reverend’s ravings Malachi pieced together that he knew the father of Haley’s baby was Malachi because he had read it in her diary. Which made no sense at all. Malachi knew the teenager, of course, at least knew who she was, remembered her from J-Day, sitting blinded in the parking lot in the Middle of Nowhere, asking where her vehicle was, refusing to tell Fish where she’d been going.

Sam said Hayley’d told her she’d been on her way to Lexington that day to get an abortion. And when she couldn’t get one, and Sam refused to perform one, the baby’s father, Howie Witherspoon, had killed her.

But there was no way now to get Duncan Norman to believe that, no way was he rational enough to comprehend it. Malachi had to get the gun away from him. He doubted Norman’s reflexes were quick enough to fire before Malachi jumped him. He hoped they weren’t — his life depended on that. But he needed a second, just a moment, had to catch the man off guard.

And then Malachi noticed the bloody handprint on the window.

“I’m not your man,” Malachi said. “And I can prove it.”

“Don’t you even have the decency to admit what you did?”

“Look at the car window, Duncan.”

“The window you smeared with my daughter’s blood!”

“The handprint, Duncan. Look at the handprint!”

He saw Duncan cut his eyes toward the window only for an instant but long enough to see the print on the glass. It looked like somebody had stuck their hand down into a can of red paint and then carefully applied it to the window pane. Not just somebody, of course. Howie Witherspoon.

“The person who killed your daughter came back to her car after he committed the crime,” Malachi was careful not to say words that would incite him. Left out “beat your daughter until she was unrecognizable” and “threw her dead body off the cliff.”

“Shut up. Just shut your filthy mouth.” Duncan seemed to grab hold of the impending explosion of rage then. Took a breath. “You have until I count to ten to make your peace with God. A man like you doesn’t even believe there is a God but the second I put a bullet through your heart, you will discover how very wrong you are. There is a God and there is a devil. You and Satan are about to become besties.”

He paused.

“One.”

“The man who killed your daughter had her blood on his hands and he smeared it on the car. You can see that.”

“Two.”

“He placed his hand on the front window to close the front door.

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