Did she expect him to rush to her and sweep her into his arms? He folded those arms across his chest in case they got some crazy notion to do just that on their own. He dipped his chin to his chest. “April.”
She dropped her hand and tugged on the top part of the dress that clung to her slender waist and rose to encase the swell of her breasts. “I suppose you’re wondering what I’m doing here...in this dress.”
“You took a detour on the way to our wedding two years ago and you just found your way back?” His lips twisted into a smile while a knife twisted into his heart.
“N-no.” She clasped her hands in front of her, interlacing her fingers. “It’s a long story. Can we talk inside?”
“Do you ever have any other kind of story?” Before she could answer his rhetorical question, he dipped back into his truck and swept his bag of food from the passenger seat and holstered his weapon.
He slammed the door of the truck and stalked up his driveway, brushing past April in her wedding finery.
The gravel crunched behind him as she followed his footsteps. “Someone left you a present. It was here when I drove up.”
A round, pink-striped box sat on the corner of his porch. Clay tilted his head to the side, his pulse ratcheting up a notch. Nobody left him presents—especially the kind in pink boxes.
“You have your hands full. I’ll grab it for you.” April barreled past him, the crinkly material of her gown skimming against his hand.
A spike of adrenaline caused him to make a grab for her dress, but she slipped through his fingers. The story of his life.
“April, wait.”
“That’s okay. I got this.” She reached the porch and grabbed the ribbon on the top of the box. “This is heavy.”
She lifted the box a few feet in the air. Then the lid came off and the bottom of the box hit the porch with a thud.
April’s scream reverberated in his ears as the severed head bounced once, splattering her white dress with blood, and rolled off the porch.
Copyright © 2020 by Carol Ericson
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ISBN: 9781488067402
Midnight Abduction
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