Killer Blast (Stella Knox FBI Mystery Series Book 10) by Mary Stone

Author:Mary Stone [Stone, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mary Stone Publishing
Published: 2023-10-23T16:00:00+00:00

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Ever since I was a kid, I liked to watch the planes. I’d go out with my grandpa, drag a plastic chair out next to the runway, and watch them take off.

They looked so stupid as they taxied. Planes were useless, lumbering things on the ground. But when they went…when they lifted their noses and climbed into the air with that rumbling power…I always felt like, if a big, clunky hunk of metal could do that, nothing could hold me back. If gravity couldn’t keep something like that on the ground, the world could never stop me.

This afternoon, I needed to think, to plan, and to screw up my courage. I had a tough decision to make, but actually implementing whatever I decided would be even tougher. So I took my coffee and my chair, sat next to the tarmac, and watched the planes defy gravity.

A Challenger 350 prepared for flight. Having finished taxiing around, it now sat at the end of the runway, its idling engines screeching. I always hated that noise. There was nothing worse than the sound of seven thousand pounds of thrust just waiting for the push.

The pilots were in the cockpit, probably talking to the tower, making sure they were clear for takeoff. Doing a few last checks.

At least, I guessed that was what they were doing. I’d never learned to fly myself. All these years around planes, seeing them every day, and I’d never even bothered to get myself a license for anything more powerful than a single-engine Piper. Some people might’ve found that funny. I figured it was smart. Let some other sucker take all the responsibility. True freedom wasn’t flying. It was being flown.

Way I saw it, if you were the one doing all the work, then you weren’t the one who was really free.

The Challenger still sat there. My phone rang. Resting my cup on the tarmac, I answered the call. “Tell me something good, Werner. I want good news.”

Werner hesitated. I could almost hear that little brain of his working, trying to put a positive twist on whatever he had to say. His poor head. Must be spinning harder than a Honeywell turbofan.

“Just spit it out.”

“I…I heard the FBI’s been sniffing about.”

“’Course they have. Don’t tell me you didn’t expect them to come knocking.”

“I…”

He didn’t. That was the problem with Werner. A fine pair of hands, as loyal as a puppy to a butcher’s mate, and better trained. But he didn’t think.

“Anything else? Or did you just call to tell me something I already knew?”

As a warm breeze drifted over the hot runway, the Challenger’s twin engines hummed. The plane was about to fly.

“Yeah, yeah. It’s about—”

“Careful…”

“Yeah, yeah. ’Course. The other thing. You know.”

I knew. And at least he knew better than to speak so clearly on an open line. The Challenger rolled forward.

“What about it?”

“Just wanted you to know that the…Samantha’s crew…they’ve gone quiet. Boys are saying there’s no sign of any of that cheap product on the street. Looks like our little problem’s solved.

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