For Her Eyes Only Part 3 by Sharon Sala

Author:Sharon Sala
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-09-03T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Breakfast was served in the lobby of the Bank of Grand Springs, compliments of four vending machines in the employees’ break room. The vending machines, and the thirteen citizens of Grand Springs, would never be the same.

Last night had been the longest night of Stone’s life, and he could only imagine how some of the older people had fared. The floor had been rock hard and cold, and the three bank robbers had fought among themselves right up until daybreak.

After that, Garrett, who still proclaimed himself the leader, had seemed to calm. Now Stone saw him watching the clock, as if willing time to fly faster to the eight o’clock hour. To the moment that the time lock and the vault would give up his brother.

The fact that the robbers had also had to deal with thirteen people and their bodily functions had added friction they could have easily done without. It seemed that at one time or another, someone needed a bathroom, or water to take medicine. Once, hysteria had played a strong-enough role with one of the women hostages that she’d clapped a hand to her mouth, and bolted for the bathroom without asking for permission.

Scanlan had swerved at the sound and taken aim with his rifle just as Stone lifted his hand in a shout.

“Don’t shoot. Don’t shoot. She’s just sick.”

The interruption stalled Scanlan’s intent long enough for the woman to make it to the bathroom without being shot, and when the obvious sounds of retching filled the lobby of the bank, Garrett started to curse.

He kicked at the young teller responsible for the locked vault. “This is all your fault, you SOB. If you hadn’t tried to play hero, we wouldn’t be here, waiting for that damned vault to open. If anything’s happened to Cody, you’re gonna be the first to die.”

Stone glanced at the clock, then toward the front of the bank. He could see nothing but vacant streets from where he was sitting, but he didn’t have to see them to know that the entire force of the Grand Springs Police Department was somewhere nearby.

By now, he’d watched the hostages long enough to know which ones would endure, and which ones might break. And oddly enough, David Clark, the young teller who’d showed the first spunk by trying to lock both robbers in the vault, was the one he worried about most. Clark had tossed and turned all night, moaning and mumbling in his sleep, and now, since daylight had come creeping in through the windows, Clark’s gaze was more often on that front door, only yards away.

“Hey! You!” Garrett yelled, and pointed his rifle. “Get up and go make us some more coffee,” he ordered. “And don’t pull no funny stuff or I’ll splatter your old man where he lies.”

The woman’s gaze flew to the man beside her, then she looked back up at Garrett, got to her feet and started toward the back of the bank to the employees’ break room. The man they called Trigger was right behind.

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