Dangerous Justice by Terri Reed

Author:Terri Reed
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

Fiona held her breath as Chris approached the closet door. Unease slithered down her spine. Who would they find in the closet? Another thug with a gun?

The young man’s feared-filled eyes and his jitteriness ratcheted up her anxiety. If the guy bolted he’d have to get past her first. She stepped in front of the open door. Dutch’s low, menacing growl raised the hairs on her arm. She’d hate to be the on the receiving end of his sharp teeth.

With his hand on his holster ready to draw down on whoever was inside the closet, Chris flung the door open.

A tall, silver-haired man in a grey suit stepped out. In his hand he held a gun aimed at Chris’s head.

Recognition slammed through Fiona. “Councilman Tom Lewis?”

Voted in as a director-at-large for the city council of the District of Columbia, the councilman’s platform was no drugs tolerated. Fiona had seen his son Liam’s name on the list of drug-addicted children collected by Carol Leechman. Definitely motive enough for murder and attempted kidnapping, vandalism and a whole host of other charges. When the public learned the councilman’s own son was an addict, Lewis probably feared it would ruin his own career.

“Stand down, Officer,” Lewis said. “Put your weapon on the floor.” He swung the muzzle of his gun toward Fiona. “Or the lovely lady will die.”

Fiona’s stomach dropped. She should have stayed out of the room, and then the councilman wouldn’t have had any leverage over Chris.

Chris slowly laid his weapon on the floor and raised his hands palms out. “You’re not walking out of here, Councilman,” Chris said, his voice calm. “The place is crawling with cops.”

Lewis’ mouth twisted. “We’ll see.”

“Dad, don’t do this,” Liam pleaded.

“This,” the councilman gestured with his free hand. “Is your doing. You’ve broken your mother’s heart and threatened my career. I can’t believe you’re my son.”

Liam hung his head and sat on the edge of the bed. Fiona ached for the younger man.

“But there’s still a chance I can get out of this mess.” Lewis gestured with his gun at Fiona. “I want the thumb drive. I know you have it.”

“She doesn’t have it,” Chris stated firmly. “Your only option is to hand me your weapon and let me walk all of us out of here without anyone getting hurt.”

Lewis swung his gun at Chris. “Oh, somebody’s going to get hurt.”

Fearing the councilman would shoot Chris, Fiona said, “Wait. I do have it.” She tugged the thumb drive from beneath the collar of her sweater. Lewis didn’t need to know there were copies. “You can have this. It’s heavily encrypted.”

Lewis edged around Chris and latched on to her hand to pluck the thumb drive away. Without releasing his hold on her, he yanked her to him, swung her around at the same time twisting her arm painfully behind her back. It happened so fast she didn’t have time to defend herself. The cold, hard muzzle of the councilman’s gun jabbed into her ribs.

Dutch growled and bared his teeth.

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