The Lane

Challenge - Photo Prompt - Exactly 150 words

I spotted her strolling along the lane that leads to my country estate dragging a bright yellow cuddly lion behind her.

I pulled over and wound down my window. “Hey there, are you lost?” I asked in my most child friendly voice.

“Yes Mister” she sobbed, “my Daddy said to wait here and he’d be back, but I don’t think he is coming”

“Why don’t you jump in the back and I’ll take you back to my house and we can try contacting him”

“Fanks Mister” she said and her eyes lit up with glee.

I’d not driven more than 50 yards when I heard a metallic click and felt something cold and hard pressed into the back of my head and a gravelly voice growled “The game’s up Mister, you’ve abducted your last victim”

I glanced in the rear view mirror and saw the lion clutching a .45 revolver. 

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