Kid Preview: Chapters 1-4
Chapter Three Alex took me out to the desert north of Phoenix. It was an odd choice, considering out here the heat could rise and make seventy degrees feel like a hundred, but he said that we couldn't go to an indoor shooting range because I wasn't eighteen. Again, my age brought up as a hindrance, and I had to suppress a sigh. I wondered if he honestly thought of me as a kid. The way he looked at me and with some of the things he has said suggested that he didn't. And despite being so adamant about it with Len, it was hard to believe that he would be staying away from me just because it was against the law. "This is a Colt 1911 with a nickel finish and a rosewood grips," Alex said, displaying the pistol to me. It was brand new. He kept it wrapped up in a white cloth, tightly tucked into a leather box and stored safely in the trunk of his car. Why wouldn’t he separate the two, the Chevelle from the gun? He wouldn’t. They were both his babies. Alex w...
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