Suckers - J.A. Konrath
Suckers - J.A. Konrath
Suckers - J.A. Konrath
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away with it!<br />
I’d had enough of the Chicken King’s crazy ranting, so I reached for the gun. Happy Roy<br />
tried to squeeze the trigger, but I easily yanked it away before he had the chance.<br />
“Let me give you a little lesson in firearms, Happy Roy. A COP .357 has a twenty pound<br />
trigger pull. Much too hard to fire for a guy with arthritis.”<br />
Happy Roy reached for his belt, fighting with the buckle. “You bastard! I’ll beat the fear of<br />
Happy Roy into you, you son of a bitch! No one crosses...”<br />
I tapped him on the head with his gun, and the Chicken King collapsed. After checking for a<br />
pulse, I went for the phone and dialed my Lieutenant friend.<br />
“Hi, Jack. Me again. Marietta Garbonzo’s husband just broke into my place, tried to kill me.<br />
Yeah, Happy Roy himself. No, he doesn’t look so happy right now. Can you send someone by?<br />
And can you make it quick? He’s bleeding all over my carpet, and I just had it cleaned. Thanks.”<br />
I hung up and stared down at the Chicken King, who was mumbling something into the<br />
carpet.<br />
“You say something, Happy Roy?”<br />
“I should have stayed single.”<br />
“No kidding,” I said. “Relationships can be murder.”<br />
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