Beautiful, Naked & Dead by Josh Stallings

“Hell Cass, Kell didn’t even like stripping. “I don’t know what you’re talking about baby, Kelly…” she drifted off looking out to sea. “It was you Cass, the whole time, Kelly didn’t do any of those things,” I said in a soft voice. and was still laid up with tubes running in and out of him, but he was recovering quicker than any of his doctors expected.Ĭass lifted the Marilyn Monroe cookie jar onto the railing, tears filling her eyes. She woke crying at night and I would hush her back to sleep. Cass was in the hospital for eight days, I stayed with her, sleeping on a cot at her side.

The sun shot golden rays out across the bay, white caps danced on waves below as we stood on the Golden Gate Bridge. Gregor was still in surgery when I finally passed out. She might lose some strength in her arm but she was going to pull through. Around eleven a young doctor came into the waiting room and told me Cass had lost a lot of blood, the bullet entered above her right breast, but missed the lung. I was told the Justice Department was picking up the tab for the hospital, so maybe Sanders wasn’t a total waste of DNA. Cass and Gregor were taken to Stanford Emergency. I dropped him at the airport and drove down to Palo Alto. Sabatini, after this and what he lost in tech stocks, I suspect he is due for an unfortunate accident while in custody.” I plan to forget your name the minute I leave this car. From my perspective the less mentioned about you the better. If they want to come after me or mine, then buckle your seat belts, I will not go down lightly.” “When you get home, tell your bosses I’m through. My employers sent me out to sweep up, after those idiots bungled a very simple job.” “You weren’t part of that crew, so what’s the deal.” “The airport, I think I would like to go home and take a very long bath.” “Where can I drop you?” I asked Leo as we rumbled along. Pulling out onto Skyline the Crown Vic rattled like a mother and the wind whistled through the broken windows, but it ran.

Beautiful, Naked & Dead by Josh Stallings