Forgotten Girls: A completely addictive and absolutely nail-biting crime thriller by D.K. Hood

Author:D.K. Hood [Hood, D.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2024-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-EIGHT

Styles stared out of the window of Cash’s cruiser as they completed a second lap of the backstreets, checking on motel and saloon parking lots for any signs of the shooter. Mist was billowing across the blacktop from the river. It dampened sound, and if the shooter had driven away without using his headlights until he reached the highway, they wouldn’t have seen him. “Seems to me, this guy had a pickup point. He made the shots and then left.”

“Maybe it was a warning?” Cash turned back onto Main. “Seems to me, if he was a professional, he’d have hit you.”

Shaking his head, Styles frowned. “It wasn’t a warning in Louan the other night. That was a hit squad and they wanted us dead.”

“That’s my phone.” Cash’s dash screen lit up and he pressed a button on his steering wheel. “Hey, Beth, what’s up?”

“What’s up? I’m pinned under a dead man on Main near the post office.” Beth coughed and wheezed.

“I’m coming along Main now.” Cash accelerated. “What happened?”

“Later. Where the heck is Styles? Is he alive?”

Grimacing, Styles pulled out his phone and switched it on. “I’m fine. Shooter got away.”

“No excuse.” Beth gasped for breath. “I need you here now.”

Staring along Main, Styles made out a shadowy lump on the sidewalk. “Two minutes. Sorry, Beth, my phone wasn’t on. I figured if it rang again, it would give away my position.”

When she didn’t reply, Styles glanced at Cash as he pulled to the curb. “Call Nate. We’ll need a doctor on scene.” He leapt from the vehicle and ran onto the sidewalk.

The scene that his phone light lit up made his stomach clench. A bearlike man had her pinned to the ground. Beth’s face was hardly visible under his massive shoulder. A pool of congealing blood spread out around them, black in the moonlight. He bent down and peered at Beth. “Beth, look at me. Are you injured? Will moving the body cause a problem? Cash has called for Nate. He’ll be along soon.”

“I’m banged up some and I can’t breathe with his weight on me.” Her eyes flashed with anger. “Get that light out of my eyes and pull him off me.”

Pocketing his phone, Styles pulled examination gloves from his pocket and snapped them on. Taking two handfuls of the man’s coat, he wrenched the man up. He weighed a ton, but the moment he’d lifted him a few inches, Beth wiggled out from under him, a KA-BAR knife in one hand and her phone in the other. He dropped the body and went to crouch beside her, but seeing her blood-soaked clothes, put his hands under both arms and lifted her onto the steps of the post office. “Wait there. I’ll grab a blanket out of Cash’s truck.”

“No!” Beth placed the knife on the steps beside her and took some deep breaths. “Check for a pulse. I want to be sure he’s dead. Look at the blood, Styles. Dead men don’t bleed.”

Styles pressed two fingers under the man’s chin and felt for the carotid artery.

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