Page 54 of Her Elusive Cowboy Billionaire

“Hello, operator.We’re being shot at.Send the police.”She gave them her address.

“Tell them he is shooting from one of the dorm rooms in the old Regency Hotel.”

‘Yes, I’ll hold on.No, I won’t hang up.But the person shooting is doing so from far away, from one of the dorm rooms in the old Regency Hotel.So they won’t find him at my address.”It sits on a hill just a little northwest of me and across I-25.That’s the only place tall enough to give him an angle on the building and to shoot into my apartment.

“Okay, I’ll continue to hold.”She rolled her eyes.What does she think I’ll do?Hang up?Someone is shooting at me.Frustration raged through her body.

Once Chase closed the other blind, the room was plunged into semi-darkness.

As she held the phone, she saw her hands were shaking.“Chase, what can we do?The police won’t find him.You know they won’t.”

“We’ll have to leave the blinds down.It’s dark out if we can make it to the living room and turn out the lights as we go.We can stay in your bedroom since the window doesn’t face west, but south.Even with a high-powered rifle, he’d have a hard time finding somewhere to shoot from.I hope you don’t mind my staying in your bedroom.I won’t leave you alone.It’s more dangerous than we thought because we didn’t know he was proficient with a rifle.My contacts have gotten very little information about him so far.It’s like he’s a ghost.I know he deals drugs for the cartels, but I’m not sure which one.The police don’t seem to know, either.I’ve given them the copies from Paige’s diary, so they have more than only my word to go on.But after this, they won’t have any choice but to believe me.”

She raised her right index finger and moved the phone up to her mouth.“Yes, operator, I’m still here.I can hear sirens now.The police have arrived.Thank you.I’m hanging up now.Goodbye.”She pressed the end button and set the phone on the bed, but didn’t get up.Not yet, not until she was sure the shooter was gone.

Her doorbell rang.

She looked at Chase, eyes wide.

“We’ll crawl.He had to have seen the police pull up, and once we’re in the foyer, it’s sheltered from the windows so we can go to the door and open it.”

The doorbell rang again.

“Coming!”shouted Meri.

She and Chase crawled through the kitchen to the front door.

Chase stood and looked through the peephole.Then he opened the door.

A Denver police officer stood in the hallway, along with Josh and Zed.

“Ms.Anderson?”asked the police officer.

Chase talked to his employees.“Why didn’t you come in?Didn’t you hear the shots

?”

“We didn’t have any inkling anything might be wrong until we heard Ms.Anderson scream and when there wasn’t another, we thought—that we shouldn’t interrupt.”

Chase let out a breath and rubbed his hand behind his neck.“Next time, if you hear someone scream, you assume they need assistance and not that they are having kinky sex.Got it?”

“Yes, sir,” said the men together.

“Go back to your posts.”

They both nodded.

Josh left the foyer.

Zed followed.

Meri couldn’t blame Josh and Zed.They didn’t know her or what she was like, but did she really seem like the kind of person who would have screamed for no reason?

The policeman waited.

“Yes, I’m Meridith Anderson.I’m so glad you came.Please, come in.”

“I’m Officer Donnelly.”