Rescuing Regina by Lee Savino EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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The car rolled to a stop, and I peered through the rain-studded
windshield. A high chain link fence rose between us and the
warehouse parking lot.
“There it is,” I said. The headlights pooled on the pavement,
illuminating our prize.
“Jackpot,” said my greasy-haired companion. “Just where you’d said
it’d be.”
“Of course,” I snorted. I was a little drunk. “I only worked here since I
was sixteen.”
“How do we get it out? Climb the fence?”
“No need. The lock is just for show. It doesn’t work.”
“You’d think he’d lock it up tighter.”
“Mr. Roberts is a trusting guy.” I felt a pang, remembering when I’d
been one of the people he could trust. “Come on.”
“Wait.” My companion—Benji? Barry? I couldn’t remember his name
—picked up his blunt. He took a pull before offering it to me.
Wrinkling my nose, I took it and mimicked him, pulling the sweet
smoke into my lungs. The whiskey was wearing off, and a little marijuana
would take the edge off my self-disgust. If I was lucky, it would keep me
from wondering why I was drunk and getting high. Why I was with a loser
about to rob my former employer. It was a night of firsts.
“Here goes nothing,” I muttered, and exited the car. The first foil came
when I saw the shiny new lock and chain on the gate. That hadn’t been
there a few hours ago.
“What’s wrong?” My partner in crime still hadn’t left the car.
“It’s locked,” I called back. “I’m going to climb the fence, see if there
are bolt cutters or something.”
I faced the fence with more confidence than I felt. As I hooked my
fingers into the links and prepared to hoist myself up, the heavens opened.
Rain poured down as if to say, this is a bad idea.
Two feet off the ground, my legs weakened. I shouldn’t have had that
last shot.
“Oi,” I called to the pothead behind the wheel. “A little help here?”
A police siren came alive behind me. The shock nearly gave me a heart
attack. I fell from the fence and sprawled on the ground. Blue and red light
washed over me with the rain.
My partner in crime put his car in reverse and hit the gas. The getaway
vehicle’s doors flapped open as it squealed past the cop car.
“Hey, wait!” I got to my feet, only to squint into flashing lights as the
sheriff’s vehicle rolled closer, cutting off my escape.
I could only stand there, squinting into the headlights. It probably was
Officer Smith or Officer Johnson. Both knew me from my mildly
delinquent days as a frustrated teen who sometimes cut school. I could
already imagine their smirks.
“What are you doing here, Regina?” came a deep voice.
Oh no. No, no, no.
Instead of porky Smith or flatulent Johnson, Sheriff Townsend unfolded
from his vehicle.
I’d known him as a kid and he’d always been serious, stern, and an
absolute stickler for rules. Age hadn’t softened him. Not that he was old—
twenty-eight, only six years older than me. Not that old at all.
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