243 A DEEPER SHADE OF RED

They both watched in helpless horror as Caramel started walking towards a cliff's edge, her gun still pressed to the back of Olivia's head. She had made Ethan drop his gun before telling him and Luke to walk ahead and wait. “Now, I could shoot her and shove her body away, but then that's too basic. So I'm going to make you choose. Either I shoot your mother, or I shove her down this cliff. Bear in mind, though, that after any choice you make, you two would die too.” “God, you should see the look on your faces right now,” she said, cackling maniacally. “Now, make haste before the police get here, darling. 'Cause that would just make everything messier.” They should have waited for the police, Ethan thought as Caramel's words swirled around them. Even if the police showed up now, with the way she was standing, she could easily put bullets in his and Luke's chests, then leap off the cliff with his mother. “We already gave you the money; just let us go, and we won't ever bother