As he stepped toward Luke with his pistol aimed and ready, she pulled the hammer back. Her g*n was a double action, and all she needed to do to kill him was squeeze the trigger, but the clicks of the firing mechanism seized JP’s attention. Without hesitation and with steady hands, she lined up the sights between his stunned eyes. Somewhere at the far edge of her conscious mind, she heard someone running toward them and glimpsed movement to her right, but she refused to be distracted.
“It won’t be his life for mine, JP. It will be yours for his.”
Her finger twitched against the trigger.
“June, no!”
Ben! He stepped toward her with the .38 gripped comfortably in his hand. Relief flickered through her, but she did not look away from JP.
“Don’t do it, June. You don’t want that kind of regr
