I Kill Monsters: Fury (Book 1) (40 page)

Carter adjusted the rear view mirror,
glancing in it at the marks on his neck.

There was a tap on the driver’s side
window.

The last thing Carter saw were the dark
gaping holes of a double barreled sawed-off shotgun pressed to the
glass in the gloved hands of a man with a Fu-Manchu mustache and
sunglasses.

Johnny Spasso fired both barrels of the
twelve-gauge through the driver’s window. He took a step back and
looked in at what was left in the driver’s seat. Satisfied, Spasso
tossed the sawed-off through what remained of the glass to rest on
the blood splattered front seat. He turned and walked in front of
the idling car, mounted the sidewalk and strolled unhurriedly
towards the corner.

As he did so he peeled off the surgical
gloves he wore and stuffed them in the pockets of his microfiber
rain jacket.

Before he reached the corner, Sully pulled
the Cadillac Eldorado over and waved to him. Johnny Spasso looked
back once at the Honda with the shot out window and climbed into
the passenger seat of the Caddy.

Sully was chewing his toothpick, gave him a
look like
well
?

“Let’s go.”

Tony Monchinski, PhD, is a high school
teacher in New York State. His other novels include
Eden
and
Crusade
, both published by Permuted Press. Tony, who would
like to hear from readers of
I
Kill
Monsters
:
Fury
(
[email protected]
), lives
with his family in Peekskill, New York.