SUSAN TIPPETT BRAITHWAITE

Welcome to #32 of the Friday Fiction Writing Challenge! Here’s a complete list of all the posts so far. Feel free to join in (instructions are at the end of the post).

This week’s random word is: Dinner

Michel reached between his body and the dusty earth beneath him, careful not to get his fingers caught in the fronds of his ghillie suit. He pulled out a fresh stick of gum and popped it into his mouth, never taking his eyes from the hotel below.

This part of the clifftop wasn’t his first choice, but with adventurous tourists cliff camping on their portaledges, he’d had to move. Michel didn’t have witnesses. Never had witnesses to his presence at a job.

A faint click and hiss came through his earpiece.

“Charlie-One, target is entering the building,” Dalton said from the comfort of the van.

Michel tapped the device and said, “Roger that, over.” He tucked his suppressed C14 Timberwolf tight to his shoulder and peered down the scope. As he swept the entrance, he picked up the target in the hotel lobby. “Got him, over.”

“We’ve got hotel security heading our way. Relocating. Over.”
Michel suppressed a chuckle and moved the scope toward the target’s room. He stopped. His attention stuck on the brunette in white, waiting on her dinner companion.

Focus.

He found the target in his suite, standing by the open window. Michel pulled the trigger; the man’s head rearranged itself on the walls. “It’s done. I’ve got plans. Out.”

In next-to-no time, Michel had the ghillie suit and the weapon stashed near the hotel. He bounded up the steps in his black suit and headed inside.

The brunette smiled at him. “I thought you’d stood me up.”
He smiled at the only person who could place him in the area. “Not a chance.”

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