Page 4 of Stilettos & Whiskey
He slammed his hand against the glass. “Open the door. Now! I told Raul I would take you to the park.”
“I don’t want to go to the park,” I cried as he yanked on the door handle again.
“Honk the horn until Alex comes,” Tess ordered.
I lay on the horn.
Captain Stone stepped out of the trailer, scowled and shouted, “Get away from my truck!”
“Make me,” Creepy guy yelled back.
“Ah oh.”
“Alex can handle himself,” Tess reassured me.
I chewed on my lower lip. “Creepy guy is awfully big.”
“So is Alex,” Tess replied.
“I’m a cop.” Captain Stone held up his badge and ID.
The creepy guy smiled. “A dead cop.” He pulled a gun.
“Noooo!” I threw open the truck door, knocking the gun out of his hand.
Roaring in fury, the creepy guy reached for me but was yanked back by Captain Stone.
The creepy guy spun around and punched him in the face.
Captain Stone staggered back a step, wiped the blood off his mouth and grinned. “That was a mistake.”
My eyes bugged as the captain kicked the crap out of the creepy guy. I was never, ever gonna make him mad.
The whump whump of a helicopter got louder and louder.
Papa Garza charged out of the trailer with a baseball bat.
“Look out!” I cried.
Captain Stone ducked the wildly swinging bat, spun and kicked Papa Garza in the stomach.
My grandfather crumpled to the ground and moaned pitifully.
The creepy guy grabbed his gun off the ground.
“No!” I jumped on his back and chomped down on his left ear.
With a yowl of pain, the creepy guy yanked me off his back and threw me at the trailer.
I slammed into the metal and for a moment everything went black. I was dimly aware of Captain Stone saying a lot of bad words. Ugh. The ground was burning me. Rolling into the shade, I opened my eyes and grimaced. Everything was going around and around and around.
“Julie!” Captain Stone called. “Are you hurt?”
I squinted at him. He was handcuffing Papa Garza, and the creepy guy wasn’t moving. “Hit head. Dizzy.”
A helicopter landed on the roadway and a pretty lady in a tan jumpsuit climbed out. “Backup is coming, Alex.”
“Get your first aid kit, Tess. The kid got hurt trying to protect me,” Captain Stone ordered as he cuffed the creepy guy.
