This Means War!

 

 

 

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This Means War!

(a Donovan Creed Novel – Volume 12)

 

 

By

 

 

John Locke

 

 

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THIS MEANS WAR!

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and

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Donovan Creed Series:

Lethal People

Lethal Experiment

Saving Rachel

Now & Then

Wish List

A Girl Like You

Vegas Moon

The Love You Crave

Maybe

Callie’s Last Dance

Because We Can!

This Means War!

 

Emmett Love Series:

Follow the Stone

Don’t Poke the Bear!

Emmett & Gentry

Goodbye, Enorma

 

Dani Ripper Series:

Call Me!

Promise You Won’t Tell?

Teacher, Teacher

 

Dr. Gideon Box Series:

Bad Doctor

Box

Outside the Box

 

Other:

Kill Jill

Casting Call

 

Young Adult:

A Kiss for Luck (Kindle Only)

 

Non-Fiction:

How I Sold 1 Million eBooks in 5 Months!

 

 

 

Table of Contents

 

 

Part 1: Sadie Sharp

Who’s Sadie Sharp, and why should we care?

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

 

Part 2: Ryan Decker

Who’s Ryan Decker, and why should we care?

1.

 

Part 3: Mike & Jimmy

Who are Mike & Jimmy, and why should we care?

1.

2.

3.

4.

 

Part 4: Donovan Creed

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

 

Part 5: Sadie Sharp

1.

2.

3.

 

Part 6: Callie Carpenter

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

11.

 

Part 7: Donovan Creed

1.

2.

3.

4.

 

Part 8: Joseph “Joey” Asad

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

 

Part 9: Callie Carpenter

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

 

Outtakes from This Means War!

 

Donovan Creed, Pre-publication, Section 4, Chapter 6:

 

Trudy Lake/Donovan Creed:

 

Trudy Lake (reviewing the galley proof):

 

Bonus Scenes

 

Bonus Scene #1: The Angel’s Share

 

Bonus Scene #2: Vegetable Soup

 

Bonus Scene #3: I Am the Cosmos

 

 

 

 

 

This Means War!

 

 

 

To Jed Barish of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Cat rescuer, businessman, and doer of good deeds

whenever possible.

Part 1: Sadie Sharp


 

 

Who’s Sadie Sharp, and why should we care?


 

SADIE, AGE 24, IS an amazing young lady who suffers from a unique form of ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) that makes it difficult for her to relate to others. She’s incapable of feeling—or understanding—positive human emotions such as empathy, humor, gratitude, and love. Conversely, she is able to feel anxiety, dread, fear, and possesses a skill set crucial to survival, including adaptability, a heightened sense of awareness, and courage.

Sadie’s a survivor.

She’s extremely task-oriented, fair-minded, and has overcome incredible obstacles to create a life that’s generally normal. For example, she can drive. Shop. Attend classes. Communicate. Function at a high level when exposed to routines, such as waking up at the same time each morning to the scent of fresh coffee brewing in the pre-set coffee machine, brushing her teeth, peeing, then walking down the hallway from her bathroom to the kitchen as she’s doing right now.

Sadie’s married.

Does her best to socialize with neighbors Carol and Kenny, and husband Rick’s friends, all of whom know better than to play tricks or head games…

…Which is why she’s going to be very confused, upset, and disoriented two seconds from now when she turns the corner and sees the note on the kitchen counter, by her car keys.

Three-words, lettered in script:

 

Tonight you die!

 

 

 

 

1.

 


SADIE GRABS HER cell phone, calls her husband.

“What’s wrong?” he asks.

“Tonight you die? Seriously, Rick?”

He pauses a moment. “Are you off your meds?”

Sadie fights the urge to curse him, takes a deep breath before saying, “I woke up, went to pour a cup of coffee, saw my keys on the counter.”

“So?”

“I never leave my keys on the kitchen counter.”

Rick sighs. “I have no idea what you want me to say.”

“I want you to admit you put my keys on the counter and wrote this stupid note. And I want to know why.”

“Sadie, listen to me. This whole conversation’s crazy! I never touched your car keys. I didn’t write you a note.”

The tone of his denial is so convincing it takes a moment before the reality sinks in. When it does, it hits them hard.

Someone’s been in their house! He—or they—could still be here!

Rick speaks first: “Jesus, Sadie! Run!”

 

 

 

2.


 

SADIE GRABS HER car keys.

Rick shouts, “Get out of the house! Run to the car! Now!”

“I’m not dressed.”

“What? Are you insane? Run!”

She is dressed, if she’s being technical: scoop-neck t-shirt, panties, slippers. It’s just that she’s not dressed appropriately for running terror-stricken through the neighborhood. Not that Rick said to run through the neighborhood in her underwear. He said get in the car and drive away. Okay, simple enough. Sadie’s already got the keys in hand.

She rushes to the door that leads to the garage, but stops short. Thinking: I never leave my keys on the kitchen counter.

Which means whoever’s after her expects her to enter the garage. He strategically placed the keys for that very purpose.