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Juliet began to speak when Paula grabbed her hand and squeezed it.
“Juliet, do you know something? Is Susanna in some kind of trouble?” Carl asked her in a very firm voice, and she shook her head no.
The sheriff didn’t believe them for one minute.
* * * *
They were just about out of the woods when they heard someone following them. “Stop. Wait right here,” Susanna whispered as she lowered her backpack.
“Take these.” She passed the keys to Alexa and her cell phone to Sally.
“You get in the car and you head to Delite. It’s in the navigation system. You call Ava at Dixie Chix. It’s five o’clock. They’ll be there. You get to them and you don’t stop for anyone. Do the speed limit so you don’t get pulled over.”
“But what about you?” Sally asked.
“This has to end now, or he’ll never stop looking for you or me.” She pulled the gun from her backpack. Alexa and Sally’s eyes widened.
Sally held her arm. “You’ll go to prison if you kill him.”
“You two get moving. I don’t plan on using this gun except in self-defense. I have a license to carry it, so don’t you two worry. You get in the car and head home and you call Ava immediately.” They hugged her. Then they slowly made their way to the car. Just as they started the engine, she spotted Brook. He was running toward them and she ran after him, tackling him to the ground. They struggled as he struck her, knocking the g
un out of her hands. She scrambled across the ground when she heard the sound of a gun with a silencer go off. Turning onto her elbows she looked and saw Casper and his main bodyguard Williams standing over Brook’s body. Blood oozed from his chest and Casper smiled.
“Now this is a very nice surprise.”
She scrambled backward and began to run when she heard the crushing of dirt and pebbles behind her then felt the hand grip her shirt and pull her back. She lost her footing, and her shirt ripped as Williams grabbed her, hurled her over his shoulder, and headed toward Casper. A moment later, a long, black limo pulled up, and his driver, Felix, got out to open the door.
“Let’s go, Susanna. We have so much time to catch up on.”
* * * *
Ava heard the phone ringing, and she glanced at the sheriff and Monte then at the others.
She looked down and saw that it was Susanna’s cell number. Relief hit her. “It’s Susanna.” She answered the call. She could see the relief on their faces, and then she heard Alexa’s frantic cry.
“Calm down, Alexa, tell me what happened,” Ava stated, and she moved around the room closer to the couch. “No, oh God, no he didn’t.”
She fell to the couch and kept one hand against the cell phone and the other covered her other ear as if she were trying hard to listen to the caller.
“What is it? What happened?” the sheriff asked.
“You come straight to the club. We’ll be here waiting. Oh God, I know, Alexa, I know.” She disconnected the call as tears rolled down her cheeks.
“Tell us what’s going on,” Juliet asked as she cried, too.
“That was Alexa and Sally. Susanna helped them to escape. She made them leave her there because that guy Brook was following them. They saw him attack her as they sped off. Then they saw a flash like a gun go off, but they kept going like Susanna told them to.”
“Where is she? Where did she go? And we want to know every detail,” Monte demanded. The women all looked at one another.
“Did she get shot?” Paula asked.
“They aren’t sure.” Ava stood up. The sheriff grabbed her by her arm and stared down into her eyes.
“You start talking now, Ava.”
“I will, Sheriff, right after I follow Susanna’s orders.”
“Oh God, Ava, you think he killed her? You think she’s dead?” Juliet cried as she covered her mouth with her hands. Paula and Elise held her on either side as they consoled her.
