Chicago Assault by Randy Wayne White

Author:Randy Wayne White
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781504024525
Publisher: Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller

ten

Hawker awoke ravenous.

He hadn’t eaten breakfast, and he had slept through lunch.

Megan had left him a note:

I’ve got to do a bit of shopping. A woman needs more than one change of clothes.

Hawker smiled at the Elizabethan swirls of her penmanship. Even her damn handwriting was pretty.

He showered the sleep away and did the rugged list of calisthenics he should have done that morning but didn’t. Seventy-five slow push-ups. A hundred sit-ups with a twenty-pound weight, cold on his chest. Stretching. Then thirty fast pull-ups on the wooden bar mounted in the corner of his room.

Then he pulled on nylon shorts, a sweat shirt, and Nikes. As he trotted down the steps, Mrs. Hudson’s voice called out, “Will you be back in time for a proper supper?”

“I will! Make double orders of everything. I’m starved!”

“And no wonder,” he heard her retort. “What with being out all night and sleeping away the good part of the day.…”

Hawker was out the door before she finished.

He jogged down Archer, then south on Kedzie. He started slow as his leg muscles stretched and lubricated themselves. Then he picked up speed, running at a steady seven-minute-mile pace.

At Marquette Park, he cut across the golf course. In the brisk September air was the sweet smell of crushed grass beneath his feet. The leaves on the oaks and maples had turned to the warm colors of a Florida sunset.

Or Megan Parnell’s hair.

He pushed the thoughts of her from his mind by concentrating on business. The business of life and death.

He knew very little about the pseudo-IRA terrorist organization, Bas Gan Sagart. He had to find out more before he could even set the groundwork for his assault.

Maybe Megan could add a few pieces to the puzzle. After all, she had supposedly been on their trail for the last month.

He would ask her. He would set her down and pick every bit of information she had out of her—with no more talk about love and future hopes.

It had been stupid to begin with. The more he thought about it, the sillier he felt.

He now lived the kind of life he wanted to live. He was aloof and alone. Free to come and go as he damn well pleased.

He had no woman to worry about or cater to. When he wanted to travel, he traveled. When he wanted to eat, he ate. As a bachelor, he lived his life without worry or guilt.

So why in the hell would he want to change that?

Hawker hacked and spit as the sweat beaded and began to pour down his face.

He wouldn’t—didn’t—want to change, damn it. Women were to be used and left behind.

And Megan Parnell was just one more woman. If she wanted to live like a nun, that was her business.

There were other women. Plenty of them.

And if Megan got in his way on this job, or slowed him down, he would tell her to get the hell out and go back to Ireland, to her precious cause.

Feeling better for the

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