Go Dwarf Yourself by Martha Carr & Michael Anderle

Go Dwarf Yourself by Martha Carr & Michael Anderle

Author:Martha Carr & Michael Anderle [Carr, Martha & Anderle, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2020-10-03T07:00:00+00:00


Chapter Sixteen

In Johnny’s hotel room, the bounty hunter sprawled on his bed and scrolled through his contacts again. Maybe I should go back to Ernie’s and ask him about the red boar now. I could get a lead or two if I can, then set it aside until after we get Amanda.

Rex crawled on his belly across the king-sized mattress and lowered his head onto his paws beside his master’s thigh with a whine. “Whatcha lookin’ at, Johnny?”

He glanced at the dog and shook his head. I’m not gonna talk about it now. And I can’t go to Ernie now, either. I need to focus on the kid who still has everything to lose.

Luther’s tail thumped on the carpet where he lay at Lisa’s feet, staring at her. “She’s good with stuff, Johnny. Guns. Magic. Bombs. Computers. Real winner if you ask me.”

The dwarf tugged on his beard and leaned back against the mountain of pillows behind him.

“Shit.” Lisa pushed the rolling office chair away from the desk and her open laptop. “They made an update to the dark-web bidding.”

He sat and scowled at her. “So now everyone knows?”

“Uh-huh. Listen to this.” She turned to her laptop to read the updated description under Amanda’s photo on the dark web. “‘Unregistered shifter. Star of this year’s auction and Belle of the Ball after all bids are placed.’”

“Motherfuckers.” He gritted his teeth and thumped a fist on the mattress.

“Yeah. Now everyone knows and they’re gonna make a huge spectacle of her at the Monsters Ball.”

“Not if I have anything to say about it. What’s the bid up to?”

Lisa blew out a frustrated sigh. “It tripled in less than twenty-four hours. Two hundred and twenty-five thousand.”

Johnny grimaced and stared at the blank flatscreen TV mounted above the mini-fridge. “Put us down for three.”

“Three—” Her eyes widened. “Hundred thousand?”

“Good guess.” He nodded at her laptop.

“Johnny, that’s—”

“Not even remotely what an innocent life is worth, Lisa. A child’s life. Make the bid.”

She raised her eyebrows and turned toward her laptop. “I guess it’s pointless to ask if you’re good for it, right?”

“Also a good guess. You’re getting better.” He scooted to the edge of the bed and leaned forward over his thighs. “Maybe these assholes will back off with this much money on the line.”

“I don’t know.” Lisa typed quickly and entered their bid. “We’re dealing with the East Coast’s biggest crime lords. Even half a million’s chump change to these guys.”

“We’ll see.”

Two minutes later, the bidding updated again. She thumped her elbow onto the desk and rested her forehead in her hand as she stared at the screen. “Lemonhead.”

“He outbid us again?”

“Yeah. It’s up to half a million now. I guess I jinxed that one.”

The dwarf ran his tongue over his front teeth and sniffed. “Seven-fifty.”

“What?”

“Do it.”

Shaking her head, she added their next bid of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The price updated next to their Bulldog username, and the seconds ticked past slowly as they waited for Lemonhead to give up or raise the price again.



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