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Chapter68
“WE…LOOK, UM, Ithink there’s a problem.”
Decker stared at Brad Gardiner, who was standing, pale and shaking, in the doorway of his home. Decker had just knocked on the door and Gardiner had flung it open.
“What sort of problem?” asked Decker.
“Mitzi…she’s locked herself in our bedroom and she won’t come out. And…and I think she has a gun. She’s threatening to shoot herself, or anyone who comes through that door.”
“Have you called the police?”
“I…no. I don’t know what to do.”
“Is anyone in the room with her? Your son?”
“No, he’s at school, thank God.”
“Anybody else?”
“I had the maid leave when…when things got weird.”
“Why are you home at this time of day?”
“I forgot some papers. I came back for them. That’s when Mitzi screamed at me when I tried to open the bedroom door.”
“Okay, is she on something? Has she been drinking?”
Gardiner seemed to be on the verge of tears. “I don’t know. What the hell is going on?”
“Show me to the bedroom.”
Decker followed him down the hall and they arrived at the door.
“Honey, I have Mr. Decker here.”
“Get him the fuck out of my house!” screamed Mitzi.
“Ms. Gardiner?” said Decker.
The next moment they both leapt back because she fired a roundright through the wood. The slug missed both men and embedded in the far wall.
“Jesus Christ!” cried out Gardiner as he dropped to the floor shaking.
Decker slid over to him, keeping low. “What kind of gun does she have?”
“It’s…it’s a Sig Sauer. I bought it for her. But she picked it out.”
“What model?”
“Um…”
“Think!”
“P238.”
“What’s it look like?”
“Small. She can carry it in her clutch purse.”
