“I want you, Sheriff!” The man answered back. He was tall and thin – dressed all in black, with his hat pulled down, concealing his angry eyes. “I want your badge… Your services are no longer needed here; and I was sent to deliver the message. Now you can either come out here, and face me like a man, or I can come in there and git ya’!... What’s it going to be, Red?”
Seeing no other thing he could do – Red walked through the hanging double doors and down into the street, facing the man dressed in black.
It was cool that morning – when the Priest put a bullet in the shifter sheriff’s chest. Red’s pistol hadn’t even cleared leather; and now he lay in the street, presumably dead.
Miss Jessica Lily held him in her arms, kissing his face. “No, No, Red, don’t die! Don’t die!” …
To be continued in Book two of the ALPHA SHIFTERS SERIES
By PAMELA MASTERSON
http://www.pamelamastersonromance.com/
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