Killer's Draw: The Circuit Rider by Amore Dani

Author:Amore, Dani [Amore, Dani]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: 2013-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

EPISODE FOUR

Forty-Four

“You’ve got a problem, young lady,” the doctor said. Bird was oddly captivated, either by his bright-green eyes and their intensity, or the compassion that was on full display. Whichever it was, it was a sentiment she wasn’t accustomed to having directed at her.

“Don’t we all, Doc?” Bird asked.

Bird glanced at the young woman on the other side of the table. The doctor’s daughter, she assumed. The thin, pale girl paid no attention to Bird as she methodically stocked the doctor’s medical kit.

“When I saw all that blood on your front, I was certain you had been shot, most likely by a shotgun,” the doctor said. “Much to my surprise, you didn’t have a mark on you, other than some bruises on your side, some shallow lacerations, and a few deeper cuts from glass. As I understand it, you were thrown through a window?”

“Through a window, and over a second-floor balcony,” Bird said. “It was a rather unpleasant evening.”

“So, then I wondered,” the doctor continued. “Where did all this blood come from?”

Bird sat up.

“I believe I’ll be on my way, now,” she said.

The doctor put a hand on her shoulder as she began to get to her feet. Ordinarily, Bird despised anyone touching her, but for some reason, her temper didn’t flare with the old doctor.

“Not so fast, young lady,” he said. “I figured out the source of that bleeding.” He pointed toward Bird’s stomach. “It’s coming from right in there.”

Bird pushed his hand away and got to her feet.

“That’s an interesting theory,” Bird said.

She snatched her gun belt off a hook by the door and shrugged it on around her hips.

“I heard a rumor,” the doctor said, “that a certain Bird Hitchcock was in town. A woman as famous for her drinking as for her ability with a pair of those.” He pointed at the guns Bird was now tying down to her legs.

“Well you shouldn’t believe everything you hear,” Bird said. “Didn’t they teach you that in medical school?”

“I suspect it’s the drinking,” the doctor continued. “You’re shredding your insides.”

Bird was about to respond when the door banged open.

Two men carried in the body of Roger Jeffire, while a second set of men carried in Mike Tower.

Jeffire was unconscious; Tower’s eyes were open and focused on Bird.

Bird looked at Tower.

“What the hell are you doing here?” she asked.

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