My Husband Wants Me Dead novel (Esther and Bradley)

“Clark! Wake up!

“Clark, don’t fall asleep!”

Esther felt a rush of fear, her heart pounding. He worried that Clark might not make it.

Gabriel gritted his teeth through the pain and approached the cement truck.

“Get out of the car,” he commanded.

The cement truck’s door creaked open, and a man smelling of alcohol stumbled out. As he stepped out, a card fell from the truck.

Gabriel leaned down to pick up the card, too distracted to keep an eye on the drunk driver.

The card featured a bright poppy flower on the front and had a simple message on the back.

[A small token of appreciation].

signed with

unsettling feeling creeping over him. These were the same drug dealers who had left a similar

glanced over at Esther, who was with Clark and Felix some distance away, and

the cement truck driver, grabbed him by the collar, and demanded, “Tell me! Who told

driver appeared bewildered. “What are

card. “This card! Where

driver asked,

glared at the driver and waited for the ambulance

driver wouldn’t escape

question was: where were those drug

ambulance and police’s blaring

thanks to Agatha. Felix had merely

thorough medical examinations, revealing various

the card in his bag. He informed Esther that he needed to leave to investigate why the card was in the cement truck driver’s

hurried to