Body Armor by Alana Matthews

Author:Alana Matthews [Matthews, Alana]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Suspense
ISBN: 9781426875083
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-10-19T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

When the closet door opened, Anna nearly shot Brody’s head off.

Once they’d closed themselves inside, she had hand ed Adam off to her mom and quickly searched the closet shelf for the shoe box containing her dad’s old pistol and loaded magazine.

Anna fumbled in darkness, trying to snap the clip in place. Her father never had a chance to teach her how to shoot, but she knew he’d kept the gun for their protection. Years after he died she dug it out of the attic, but had never taken it out of the box until now.

The silence that followed the gunshots downstairs was excruciating. She had no idea what had happened and could only think the worst.

Had Brody been shot?

Was he dead?

The thought sent such a violent wave of horror through her that it took everything she had to keep from throwing the closet door open and crying out to him or running down to see if he was alive.

But she remained still, only the sound of her rapid breathing filling the silence.

Adam had miraculously slept through it all, but Mom looked as terrified as Anna felt. When they heard the door to the bedroom open and knew that someone was in the room, Anna tried to remain calm, but her knees began to buckle.

She brought the pistol up, her hands trembling un controllably, not knowing what to expect.

Could she pull the trigger if she had to?

Did she have that kind of courage?

If it meant protecting Adam, then yes, she would do what had to be done. But she didn’t relish the thought of killing someone, no matter how heinous he might be.

A moment later, the closet door flew open and Anna came very close to squeezing off a shot. It took her a split second to realize that it was Brody standing there, but in that tiny moment of time, she almost put a bullet between his eyes.

He jumped back at the sight of the pistol. “Woah. Where’d you get that thing?”

Anna lowered it and fell into Brody’s arms. “Oh my God, you’re alive. Are you all right?”

He pulled her close, running his hands along her back. “My pride’s a little bruised, but I’ll survive. Un fortunately, the bad guys got away.”

He stepped back now, letting them out of the closet, and gestured to the pistol. “You’d better put that where it belongs. There’s been enough shooting around here for one night.”

She nodded and immediately found the box and put the pistol away.

“Is it safe to take Adam to bed?” Sylvia asked.

Brody nodded. “They won’t be coming back anytime soon.”

As Mom carried Adam back to his room, Brody pulled out his cell phone and dialed. “This is Brody Carpenter. I need you to get Deputy Matson out of bed and over to his ex-wife’s place right away. There’s been an attack on her house.” He looked at Anna. “There’s no way Frank can ignore this thing now.” Anna only hoped he was right.

TWENTY MINUTES LATER, it seemed as if half the sheriff’s deputies in Cedarwood County were inside Anna’s house.

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