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The deafening noise from the first shot caused everyone to freeze.
Then chaos ensued.
* * *
“9-1-1. What’s your emergency?”
“My mother took a shot my father’s mistress.”
There was a pause, then, “You said shot, not killed. Is she still alive?”
“Oh, yes,” Ebony replied calmly with a quick glance at the trembling woman who
was struggling to extract herself from Samara’s hold. “She’s still breathing. My mother
missed.”
“I’ll send the police,” the dispatcher said and there no mistaking the relief in her
voice.
“No, send the coroner instead,” Ebony countered.
“But I thought you said she’s still alive.”
“I said that my mother missed. I won’t.” Then she smiled as she added,
“Again.”
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