“I got him Clive, but I didn’t get a clean shot because of the damned corner post. He lost his gun; I heard it hit the sidewalk. Cover me and I’...l finish him off.”I heard the distinctive sound of the shotgun breaking open and heard both the empty shells ping onto the sidewalk, but I damn sure couldn’t find my Colt. I finally stuck my hand under the edge of the raised wooden walkway and gasped in relief as my fingers closed around the cold steel barrel. I was pulling the gun out from under the. She stood and, as the door closed behind me, minced over to me in her lime green skirt boldly accessorised with matching heels. “You have kept me waiting,” she said impatiently, her hair swinging with the shake of her head. “How long, and how did you get in here?” “I had my way with the concierge of course silly,” she said placing her soft lips on mine, and adding, “I have been waiting for you since we parted company.” My arms went around her shoulders and I drew her into me, “Waiting for what. Seeing a bartender at the far end of the beat up counter to the left, she quickly headed in his direction intending to ask about using a phone. Three big, rough looking characters where playing pool in the right hand corner by the door, eyeing her up and down. Skirting around two rumpled older men with dirty bandanas on their heads, obviously bikers, Joanna ignored a slurred, ‘Hey baby, wanna drink?’ Leaning over the counter, she had the bartender’s full attention, at a glance, she guessed he. Additionally, he had a money clip with a thousand dollars in his pants pocket and a second wallet with over two thousand dollars in it in his left inside suit coat pocket.“I don’t think Frank will be needing these,” I said, as I handed them to Jill. The weapons, I transferred to the fancy room across the foyer for now.Following that, I moved him further back into the room before changing the freeze spell to only a partial one from his knees down, effectively holding him in place. Frank snapped.