Dead Reckoning (The Still Waters Suspense Series Book 1)

by Dawn Lee McKenna

  That took Evan a second. “Plutes?”

  “Yeah, the cat. My cat, how is he?”

  Evan looked over at Plutes, who was polishing his armor, and wanted to punt him over the side. “This is your cat?”

  Shayne hesitated. “Well, uh. Yeah. Yeah, I couldn’t keep him in my new place, no pets, you know? So…well, Hannah took him.” He waited for Evan to say something, but Evan didn’t. “So, I guess he’s still there, huh?”

  “Yeah, he’s still here,” Evan said.

  Evan sat there for a minute after they’d ended the call, staring at nothing off in the distance. Then he looked over at the cat.

  “Well, what do you know, Plutes? He didn’t want you, and she didn’t want me.”

  Plutes looked at him for a couple of blinks, then his head started jerking forward. Evan stared at him, thinking he looked like he was doing an impression of Don Knotts bobbing for apples, but then something that looked like a wet, black caterpillar fell to the deck with a soft plop. Evan and the cat both looked at it for a second, then the cat jumped down without a sound and walked inside.

  Evan sat there for a few minutes, wondering if he could pay The Muffin Girl to run over there and take care of it for him, maybe take the cat with her when she left.

  Then he went inside to get a pair of gloves and some paper towels.

  THE END

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  DEAD RECKONING

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  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  The authors wish to thank their long-suffering families for making the writing of this book possible. We’d also like to thank book designer Colleen Sheehan of wdrbookdesign.com for her beautiful formatting and design, Debbie Maxwell Allen for her keen editing, and Shayne Rutherford of wickedgoodbookcovers.com for her inspired cover design. We can’t leave out the best group of authors we could ever hope to call friends. AC, thank you for the laughs, the support, the shared learning, and the GIFs.

  ABOUT THE AUTHORS

  DAWN LEE MCKENNA is the author of the novel See You, and the bestselling Forgotten Coast Florida Suspense series. A native of Florida, she now lives in northeastern Tennessee with her five children and one domineering cat.

  AXEL BLACKWELL grew up in one of those small Indiana towns where the only fun is the kind you make yourself. Many ghost and UFO sightings in central Indiana between 1985 and 1990 can be attributed to Axel and his brothers attempting to escape boredom. Axel now lives with his family and an assortment of animals in the Pacific Northwest.