The Girl Who Knew Too Much by Amanda Quick

Author:Amanda Quick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2017-04-20T11:03:26+00:00

Chapter 28

The assistant had given him the wrong key. It did not fit the lock that secured the chains. He was trapped in the steel cage.

That was all the warning he got.

He wasted precious seconds extracting the backup key from its hiding place and unlocking the chains that bound him. He knew then that he had not been given the wrong key by mistake. There were no mistakes in an Oliver Ward illusion.

He was going to die if he did not free himself.

The first shot ripped into his thigh. Blood poured out in a hot fountain. The second shot grazed the same leg.

The third shot missed, just barely. He heard the shriek of metal as the bullet struck the chains.

He could hear the audience screaming now. The sound seemed to come from another dimension. He could not see anything because of the black curtains draped around the Cage of Death.

The horrified shouts and screams got louder. He realized the blood was leaking out of the cage and falling onto the stage.

His leg burned with cold fire. So did the truth. What had happened was not an accident . . .

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