Candy-Coated Secrets (28 page)

“Mr. Banning, you in here?” Ethan’s student David, along with two other boys, dragged a weak and battered Mr. Woodrow into the restroom. David handed the pistol to Ethan. “It wasn’t hard to sneak up and overpower the little weasel. He didn’t have a chance against us jocks.”

Ethan stood. “I appreciate that, boys, but I asked you to call the police. You could’ve been shot.” He stuffed the gun in his waistband.

“We did call.” Sirens wailed in the distance. “See? But we couldn’t resist having a little fun with him.”

I handed David the wire cutters. “There’s a man tied up in the room behind the fun house mirrors. Can you find him?”

“Sure. We’ve spent the night in there plenty of times. Scary place. Lots of fun.”

I laughed. “Yes, it is.” My hand clasped in his, Ethan and I made our way out of the restroom and into the blinking lights of two squad cars.

A female officer walked behind a cuffed and cursing Sally, ignoring the woman’s pleas about being ill. Two more officers burst into the restroom behind us and dragged out a still unconscious Woodrow.

Although my body would protest with pain tomorrow, and I’d have one humongous headache, I felt lighter than I had in months. My faith strengthened, the ability to get myself out of tight jams, and the love of the best man in the world lifted me above the atrocities of the last few weeks.

Ethan’s arm rested across my shoulders. “Woman, you do get into adventures, don’t you?”

“Life with me won’t be boring.”

“Definitely not.”

I peered at his face. “I don’t want to wait until next fall to get married, Ethan. I want to get married in the spring. A new life. A new beginning.”

He lowered his head to kiss me. “Sounds good to me. How about April Fools’ Day?”

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Having grown up in the foothills of the Ozarks, small-town life in Arkansas holds a special place in Cynthia Hickey’s heart and is the setting for most of her writing. She is the Detention Monitor at her local school and likes to hear nothing better than a student saying they’d like to write a book someday.

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