Two For The Kill (A Tanner Novel Book 8) by Kane Remington

Author:Kane, Remington [Kane, Remington]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense, Action & Adventure, Thriller
Published: 2015-08-29T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 24 – No way to treat a lady

WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, TEN YEARS EARLIER

With nothing else to do, Tanner staked out the women’s shelter that night.

Joe had the car, and so Tanner was on foot. He was wearing dark clothes with a hood, and he stayed back in the shadows of a burned-out building.

He saw Conti twice, and each time there was a child nearby who hugged the big man as if he were a kindly old grandfather. The shelter was located in a bad neighborhood, but Tanner noticed that everyone who walked past Conti greeted him with a smile or showed respect, even the gangbangers.

If Conti were running a con, Tanner didn’t know what it was.

After growing bored, he moved onto the sidewalk and began the trek back to the motel. When the same car drove past him twice and parked up ahead, he assumed it meant trouble.

He was carrying a gun, but he had seen at least two silhouettes in the car, and if there were as many as four, Tanner wanted to even the odds by using the element of surprise.

When the sidewalk curved and placed him in a blind spot to the men in the car, he left the street and began cutting through backyards as fast as he could.

After traveling two houses farther down from where the car was parked, Tanner moved back towards the street and spotted two of the bodyguards from the whorehouse. They were both turned around in their seats and looking for him.

The driver was the man Pullo had struck with the ashtray, while the passenger had his right arm in a sling, and was likely the man who had tumbled down the stairs and dislocated his shoulder.

Tanner cursed silently. This was a complication they didn’t need. They had obviously followed him from the shelter and had plans for him. But had they just followed him, or had they followed both he and Pullo earlier?

Tanner slipped from the shadows and spoke when he was six feet away from the car.

“If either of you moves I’ll light you up.”

Both men twitched, but it was from surprise, and not an attempt to use their weapons. Afterwards, they slowly turned their heads to look at him.

“We just wanted to talk,” said the driver, and Tanner saw the huge lump on his forehead that resulted from the ashtray hitting him.

“Let me see your hands.”

The hands went up slowly, and Tanner saw that the man in the passenger seat held a sawed-off shotgun in his left hand, while the driver carried a Beretta.

“I see how you were going to talk. Toss the weapons in the back seat, and then I want the driver to get out.”

“Why just me?”

“Toss the guns. Do it now,” Tanner said.

The men followed instructions because they had little choice. By the time they turned to face Tanner, they would be dead.

Once the driver was out, Tanner had him stand in front of an overgrown hedge. Both men were dressed as he was, in dark clothing with a hood.

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