The Doll 42（文稿） - 英文有声《第43条疤痕》三部曲

Chapter 42 The woman with the keys and sensible shoes opened her mouth to scream, and in the gap of silence between shock and sound, Munroe’s other hand wrapped around the woman’s face.  The shrieking came, and continued to come, but muted, while the woman chomped at Munroe’s fingers and clawed with her nails, and Munroe, once more amped up on adrenaline, struck with the gun— a hard crack against the woman’s head. For a moment the woman stopped struggling, and Munroe, shifting so her back was to the interior and her eyes to the street, worked the woman into the store.  Neeva crossed the single-lane road casually as if she owned it, caught the door before it fully shut, then followed them inside and, without Munroe asking, removed the keys, relocked the door, and pulled the second handgun from the ...