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With training gaps and chaos spreading among parishioners, Will acts decisively to disarm the stranger and keep the crisis from escalating. The chapter then shifts to the aftermath, where media attention, fear, and uneasy curiosity from congregants shape the tense atmosphere.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nMarianne Lowe Consecrated With Blood  \nAM/M Romantic Thriller  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCopyright © 2020 by Marianne Lowe  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in anyform or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise without written permissionfrom the publisher. It is illegal to copy this book, post it to a website, or distribute it by any other means  \nwithout permission. First edition  \nThis book was professionally typeset on Reedsy Find out more at [reedsy.com](reedsy.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \n1. Chapter 1  \n2. Chapter 2  \n3. Chapter 3  \n4. Chapter 4  \n5. Chapter 5  \n6. Chapter 6  \n7. Chapter 7  \n8. Chapter 8  \n9. Chapter 9  \n10. Chapter 10  \nAlso by Marianne Lowe  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n1  \nChapter 1  \nWill noticed all newcomers, as a matter of course; St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church was a fairly small parish of a hundred and sixty members, eighty of which showed up to any given service, and on the Sunday after Thanksgiving the crowd was even smaller . New faces stuck out, and this one stuck out more than most. He was short and stocky and older, with a wispy corona of graying hair around the crown of his head and a pronounced hunch to his shoulders .  \nThere were still ten minutes until service; people tended to show up at the last minute, or ten minutes after service began, and so there were only a handful of the most devoted few seated in the pews or mingling on the doorstep. Will had observed the man ignore the greeter and brush aside the usher . Now he stood in the narthex, fingers twitching, swaying slightly from side to side as he peered around with narrowed eyes and forward thrust chin . Even Ginger Papania, one of the braver and more garrulous parishioners, seemed doubtful about approaching him .  \nMentally ill, probably, but he did not appear to be homeless; his shoes were well-polished, and if Will was not mistaken, the shirt was Armani, and so was his blazer . Will  \ndetached himself from a corner of the narthex and approached the man .  \n“May I help you?” he began . The man swayed toward him, opened his mouth, and thrust his hand inside his jacket. That was when Will saw the gun .  \nTime slowed down .  \n“Gun!” Will heard himself yell, as if from far away; stupid, stupid, his parishioners weren’t trained, they wouldn’t knowhow to react. They’d start yelling and running around. But Will couldn’t worry about that for the moment; he saw theman’s arm come up, saw the menacing black body of the weapon . Fortunately, the man was nervous, and clumsy, and untrained. Will slid to the side, grabbed the gun by the slide, and struck the man’s wrist with the heel of his hand. The gun came out of the stranger’s grasp easily, and just like that all of the fight went out of him . He slumped to his knees, his head hanging, while Will held the gun well away from his body.  \nSound came rushing back. Will’s ears were ringing, and he realized the gun must have fired. His parishioners were, infact, yelling and running around. Will was panting.  \n“Did anyone call the police?” he called.  \n* * *  \nFighting Priest Defends Baltimore Church From Gunman, ran the Associated Press .  \nBaltimore’s Fighting Priest Has a Law Enforcement Background, crowed The Baltimore Sun .  \nWill did not see himself on the evening news—he didn’t even own a television—but he was assured by many emailsand phone calls from his parishioners that he’d looked very dashing. 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