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your eyes. She's sleeping with him, giving him things to buy him and his silence. But she'll never have either of you,” her voice shook with fury.
“Patrick gave me that stuff so you'd go away,” Justin yelled.
She tossed back her head and gave a frigid laugh. “That beast wouldn't give you anything valuable for me because he wants me dead.” Stomping over to Justin, she backhanded him across the face. “Since you seem to have elective amnesia maybe this will help you remember. Leveling the gun at Dylan, she pulled the trigger.
Justin heard the gun's loud blast, the flash from the muzzle appearing super-bright to his fearful eyes. As if in slow motion, he could see the bullet moving through the air in his father's direction and he closed his eyes, willing the shot to go astray.
Dylan watched the projectile speeding toward him and inhaled deeply. With an imperceptible lowering of his lashes, he welcomed the impact, mentally sighing as the searing heat and steel passed through his body, further resolving him to what he had to do. He didn't flinch, stagger or take his eyes from hers. She'd already killed his parents and her boyfriend; he didn't doubt she'd kill them all. “Liz I gave him that stuff years ago. He apparently went in the safe this morning. Why would he have to steal what we have so much of? You were my wife. He's only presenting you with some of the uxorial wealth commonly bestowed upon the Savage women.”
Her look was mercenary. “You're telling me this stuff is mine?”
“Yes.”
She waved the gun at him, “So, where is my necklace?”
“In the car.”
“Go get it, unless you've given my diamonds to that roly-poly, redhead, and if you have I'll kill your precious son right now, then I'll shoot you again, leaving you barely alive so I can drag her ugly, big butt, back here and kill her while you watch.”
“Send Justin, the jewelry box is under the passenger seat.” He raised the leather kit back into her field of vision, saying enticingly, “This won't wait.”
She looked from the bag to Justin and back. “He can go but if he's gone longer than a couple of