Deadly White Female by Clifford L. Linedecker

Author:Clifford L. Linedecker
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781429937573
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Published: 2011-10-21T00:00:00+00:00

Be here tomorrow at 2 p.m. to pick up your stuff —Bring some help, since I’m not moving it for you. Leave your key under the mat. If you try to enter, I’ll shoot you. If you aren’t here by 2:30 it goes in the Dumpster.

The word “shoot” was underlined.

She had no trouble recognizing the angry hand-printed scrawl. It was Roger’s.

Lisa is the only person who knows the exact details of the occurrences immediately after she read the note. But according to her later sworn courtroom testimony, she took a key from her jacket pocket, turned it in the lock and pushed at the door. It only opened a couple of inches before it was stopped by a security chain.

Moments later the barrel of an assault rifle was poked out the crack of the door pointed directly at her. She lurched backward in alarm.

“Are you crazy?” she demanded.

“I want your key,” Roger growled. Lisa couldn’t see him behind the door. But she could see the barrel of the rifle in the crack between the door frame and the door. And she could recognize his voice.

She said she needed to go inside and pick up some of her belongings. “You know I have to see my lawyer this morning,” she reminded him.

Roger wasn’t ready to give up on his hard-line stand. “I’ll just throw your stuff over the balcony,” he threatened.

Lisa wasn’t in the mood for protracted pleadings or a long quarrel. If Roger wanted to toss her belongings over the railing, there wasn’t much she could do about it.

“Roger, go ahead,” she shot back at him.

Lisa turned and stalked out of the entranceway of the building. As she reached the outside and began walking down the sidewalk, Roger was already right behind her. He had cooled down. His hands were empty and there was no trace of the gun. He still wasn’t ready to capitulate completely, but he was willing to compromise.

“Go ahead and come get your stuff,” he told her wearily.

The feuding couple walked back inside the apartment together. The rifle was lying on the couch, and Lisa’s belongings were scattered all over. Bags and boxes were stacked on the living room floor near the front door; some were on the balcony, and a few were next to the couch.

Lisa sorted through the material until she found an envelope filled with legal papers she needed for her meeting with the lawyer in Arlington. She noticed a pet carrier on the floor and asked Roger if he was taking one of the cats somewhere.

He replied that he was going to take Jellybean to a nearby veterinary clinic at nine A.M. to be spayed before continuing on to work. Lisa asked if he would take her along and drop her off at the Metrorail station in Bethesda. Roger agreed to give her a ride, if he was able to drop the cat off at the veterinary clinic early.

After a telephone call to the Beltsville Veterinary Hospital confirmed that staff members had already arrived at work, Roger put Jellybean into the carrier and he and Lisa left with the cat.

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