Bodyguard Wolf's Fated Mate: A Paranormal Romance (Special Wolf Security Agency Book 2) by Anastasia M. Banks

Author:Anastasia M. Banks [Banks, Anastasia M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-15T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

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JASMINE

I barely made it out of the room still seething with furious indignation when I sensed a foreboding presence. Something hit me from behind. Glass tingled above me with the speed of sound being penetrated by a lead projectile.

"Stay down close to the floor and don't move a single muscle," Luke warned me with a heated whisper into my ear.

Having his body over me in a protective gesture should have terrified me. The only thing I could think about was how fast I could get him out of the suit. The wolf was anxious and its presence was growling for some action.

"What the hell is going on?" I asked when there was another echo of gunfire from the other side of the house.

Luke had me by the neck and I couldn't move. "I have to get to your father. This has nothing to do with you and everything to do with him. Somebody hired an assassin to take him out, and I'm the only one standing in his way."

He ran from me in a zigzag formation with the bullets flying around him. He was mistaken. It wasn't just one assailant. Two others had taken up positions to keep me pinned down. They didn't care that I was innocent.

I was still his daughter. It was about time to act like it.

I crawled backward into the kitchen on all fours while staying close to the floor. The cook was huddled in between the stove and the fridge. His face was white, and he was muttering something in his native Russian tongue.

Jansen Romanoff was an exceptional culinary master.

His bald head shone in the overhead pot lights. He gripped a string of rosary beads. My Russian was a little weak, but I had learned a lot while listening to him scream obscenities at the staff. He prayed for some sort of divine intervention.

"Stay where you're at. Moving is the worst thing you can do in this situation." It was hypocritical for me to suggest anything when I was dead set on being part of the action.

Normally, I would shy away from life and death decisions, but these were extraordinary circumstances. It was also a good way to stretch the enhanced senses of the wolf.

The door at the bottom of the stairs would take me out of the side of the house. A maze of stonework on the pathway would give me a modicum of cover as long as I stayed out of the line of fire.

It was highly arousing to face the specter of death.

Opening the door was a bit of an ordeal. It weighed three times a normal door. It didn't look like anything special, but it was fortified with metal to keep unwanted visitors from getting in.

I almost expected somebody to be there to greet me with a gun in my face. It was a relief when the only thing to assault me was a cool wind blowing through the trees.

I mapped out a path of least resistance in my mind. The circular stone pathway got me closer to my objective.

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