Bitter Legacy: A Matt Royal Mystery (Matt Royal Mysteries) - Plot & Excerpts
A noise of some sort. Without thinking about it, I had slipped into the sleep of the soldier, a guarded slumber, a part of the sleeping brain alert for danger, for sounds in the night, ready to spring into action with the first perception of threat. I couldn’t identify the sound at first, but it had been enough to fire up those old responses, kick in the adrenal glands, sharpen the senses. I glanced at the clock by the phone. Three a.m. The deepest part of the night, the time when predators pounce. I lay completely still. My Sig Sauer was on the bedside table, loaded, a round in the chamber. The .38 was still in its holster on a chair across the room. I closed my eyes, trying to sharpen my hearing, straining for the sound again, trying to place what I’d heard, dredge it up from the memory banks. It came again, a small sound in the night, a slight gurgle, a swish of an oar biting into the surface. The almost silent push of a boat through water. Somebody was on the bay, close to my house, coming quietly, stealthily.
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