The Life of Riley by Geonn Cannon

Author:Geonn Cannon [Cannon, Geonn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Published: 2011-08-31T05:00:00+00:00

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Geonn Cannon The Life of Riley She moved toward the bar’s front door, but one of the patrons moved to intercept her.

Riley shifted her weight to her left foot, leaning back as the man grabbed for her. She ducked under his outstretched arms, put a hand on his back, and shoved. His momentum carried him straight into the bar, where he sprawled. Riley swung her legs and kicked his feet out from underneath him, and he hit his chin on the bar as he fell. Two more men came at her from behind and she grabbed a bar stool to defend herself with.

“We’re just trying to help you, miss. The cops will be here soon, just…”

Riley fished in her pocket for her badge and held it up for them to see. “I am a cop. I don’t know who is supposedly coming to get me, but my guess is they won’t be my friends and I don’t want to see them. So I’m going to walk out the door, you guys are going to stay in here and get plastered, and everything will be fine. All right?” She eased toward the door, relieved when they didn’t follow her.

As she stepped out into the daylight, she heard sirens dangerously close. Maybe that was why the barflies hadn’t pursued her; they didn’t think she had time to get away. But Riley had grown up running from the cops in No Man’s Land.

She turned and darted down the street, taking the first alley she found.

Long in the past, when the city government still cared about No Man’s Land, the main road had been widened to four lanes. It was an unnecessary improvement, and it played havoc with the property lines along the project. Some buildings were demolished, only to be rebuilt farther back on their plots. Others simply lost half their parking lot. The buildings that moved were brought uncomfortably close to

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