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walked past her and aimed his gun at the man crawling on the sidewalk and before she knew what was happening Jack pulled the trigger and she saw the hole appear between the man’ s shoulders and the man collapsed on to the sidewalk. Selena cried out and watched as Jack put another bullet in to the back of the man’s head.
    She watched as Jack calmly walked over to the other man who was just then beginning to get to his feet, she could see blood running down the man’s pants and even more flowed from his left s houlder. The man raised his right hand to plead with Jack but Jack ignored the man’s attempts and pulled the trigger and Selena bent over and threw up as she watched the back of the man’s head splash across the sidewalk.
    Selena was shaking by the time her stomach finished emptying and she wiped a hand across her mouth.
    ‘Jesus Jack, who are you?’ a stunned Selena asked.
    Jack put his gun in to the shoulder-rig that he was wearing beneath his leather jacket and he smiled at Selena.
    ‘I’m the guy that just saved your life, again , it’s getting to become a habit.’
    Jack spent two minutes getting her cases from the trunk of the strangers’ car and storing them in his Taurus, he came back for the third case that was still on the sidewalk and then he ushered a still shaken and stunned Selena towards the waiting car.
    He opened the passenger door for Selena and she got in, he closed the door once she was seated and he walked around to the driver’s still open door and got in behind the wheel, he closed his door, slipped the car in to gear and pulled away from the kerb.
    Selena started to speak but Jack raised a finger silencing her.
    Jack slipped a mobile phone from his jacket pocket and made a call.
    ‘Yeah Nicky, it’s me, there are two dead bodies on the sidewalk outside of Selena Boyd’s shop, I need you to send a team to clear them away.’ Jack drove as he listened to Nicky and Selena turned slightly in her seat to look at Jack as he discussed the incident with the two men; to Selena it sounded like Jack wasn’t fazed by the killing.
    Just who is he ? Selena wondered.
    ‘Nah, she’s fine,’ Jack said, he listened for a half minute and th en added, ‘I owe you, thanks Nicky.’ He closed the mobile phone and slipped it back in to a pocket of his leather jacket, he glanced at Selena.
    ‘Take the coat off Selena.’
    ‘What?’
    ‘The coat, take it off.’ He held her gaze for three seconds. ‘I won’t ask you again.’
    Hands still shaking from the recent gunfight she did as Jack told her and once she had it in her lap she said, ‘I can’t believe you just killed two people.’
    Jack didn’t respond but instead pulled in to the side of the road, he snatched the coat from Selena’s hands.
    ‘Anything of yours in the pockets?’
    She shook her head.
    ‘No, I only bought it today.’
    Without saying another word Jack got out of the car and threw the coat in to a nearby dumpster, he got back in to the car and pulled back out on to the road.
    ‘What the fuck Jack?’ Selena cried. ‘That cost two hundred dollars.’
    ‘There was blood on the back of it.’
    ‘Jesus Christ,’ Selena said and she checked her bare arms and legs for blood splatter; in the dimness of the car she wasn’t one hundred percent sure but she thought she was okay.
    Selena looked down at her lap and realised that her dress had ridden up; she moved her hands to adjust the hem.
    ‘Don’t, you put that dress on for a reason so leave it the fuck alone.’
    ‘Fuck,’ Selena muttered and sat back in her seat, she had to admit to herself that her whole plan of pissing Jack off had backfired and now with her pubic hair clearly on show she once more felt totally vulnerable.
    ‘Where are we going?’
    ‘You’ll know when you need to know.’
    They rode in silence for several miles and then Selena said, the bitterness evident in her tone, ‘I’d love to know when you became this big an asshole.’
    Jack glanced