This is your last taste before Hero Amicus Curiae drops on Thursday!
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Susan guided her rental car into a chain café’s drive-thru to pick up bagels, cream cheese, and caffeine on her way to Mother Defiant’s apartment. It seemed the best way to meet with Eugenia without her traipsing around in her superhero togs.
A huge black SUV pulled in behind the rental. For an instant, worry ran through Susan. The sheriff in Bluffton still hadn’t discovered who had trashed Mom and Dad’s vacation cabin at Christmas. Thankfully, insurance covered most of the damage. But part of her wondered if it wasn’t retaliation for her joining Winters & Franklin. Harri and Aisha had made some powerful enemies out of not just Corvus, but the shadowy clients who hired them to perform their dirty work.
Which included hers and Aisha’s former employers.
Susan never understood why Aisha stayed at that firm as long as she did. Her new partner was a smart cookie. But then Aisha probably wasn’t pimped out to Captain Mojave like Stuart Cheatham tried to with her.
Joining Winters & Franklin gave her an opportunity to put down some roots. Aisha’s husband Rey had some great ideas for revitalizing the Canyon Block that didn’t involve gentrification. A little shop to sell her handmade jewelry sounded like a wonderful way to spend her retirement.
The sedan in front of her rental pulled away, and Susan tapped the gas to pull forward to the window. A jolt to her rental was followed by a horrendous crunch. The idiot in the SUV had hit her.
“You okay, ma’am?” the young woman at the window asked.
Before Susan could answer, the SUV rammed her rental car again and continued pushing the smaller sedan through the drive-thru and toward the street.
Right into the path of an oncoming semi-truck.
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