A knock strikes the door and a smile spreads over my face.

See? I advised you.

I open the door and pause, trying into the eyes of a pudgy, middle-aged man in a go well with.

“Bartholomew Carson?”

“Yeah,” I reply.

He holds out a brown envelope. “You’ve been served.”

I let him drop it into my hand. Simply as rapidly as he arrived, he spins round and bolts down the corridor towards the elevator with out even a look again over his shoulder. A straight-up fucking hit and run.

I shut the door and stare on the envelope for a full minute earlier than opening it and sliding the pages out.

PETITION FOR DIVORCE.

You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me.

She did it. She truly freakin’ did it. When she advised me she by no means wished to see my face once more, she meant it in each potential approach.

This can be a joke. It must be a sick prank. Ha-ha, Caleb. Very humorous…

I scan the pages one-by-one, feeling much more nauseous the extra I learn. She’s signed them already. Her title in black ink proper right here. Caleb Fawn. All they want now could be my signature and the perfect factor that ever occurred to me might be prefer it by no means occurred in any respect.

Fuck that shit.

I slide the papers again into the envelope and seize my messenger bag off the ground. If she needs to separate up for some time — high quality — however I received’t give her the satisfaction of submitting these kinds and dropping me for good. She will’t do this if I by no means ship them again to her and she will’t power me to provide them to her if she doesn’t know the place I’m.

You don’t wish to see my face ever once more? I’ll make that straightforward for you, Caleb Fawn.

I open the again pocket of my bag and I slide the envelope inside, zipping it tightly closed to carry them there.

Sorry, honey. No divorce right this moment. Appears to be like such as you’re caught with me.

I catch sight of the notepad contained in the bag and I hesitate earlier than pulling it out. I sketched that black snake from reminiscence the perfect I may. The identical snake I noticed dangling from that pendant round Marilyn Black’s neck. Her mysterious household. Their nonexistent land in Paris. Even the navy and this fucking Paxton man. There’s a much bigger image right here however I don’t have sufficient items to place the puzzle collectively or make any sense out of it.

My curiosity grows.

I throw my bag over my shoulder as I go away Las Vegas for good.

Chapter 26

Boxcar

Now

Did Robin Hood ever take an arrow for Maid Marian? I actually can’t bear in mind.

One factor’s for certain, although. Being a hero isn’t what it’s cracked as much as be. Everybody is aware of getting shot hurts. I knew what to anticipate, however what I by no means anticipated was for there to be a lot ache from such a tiny graze.

The blast slid throughout my again, scratching my shoulder in a number of locations. If I’d been one second too late or an inch to the left…

Let’s not give it some thought.

A handful of stitches later and it was finished. My concern was on Caleb your entire time. The physician who checked her out had no concept what Elijah injected her with. Some sort of do-it-yourself tranquilizer, extremely potent and tremendous not authorized. Given the speed it’s leaving her system, he thinks she’ll be high quality after an excellent night time’s relaxation in her personal mattress.

I carry her up the steps to her loft, ignoring the throbbing ache in my again. There aren’t a number of moments in life after I get to play the cool man. I’m not passing up the prospect to hold the damsel over the brink.

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