Hell & Back by Julie Rowe

Author:Julie Rowe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bioterrorism; outbreak; betrayal; Small Pox; CIA; CDC; FBI; terrorism; NSA; government; mercenaries; disease; military; kidnap; blackmail; medical thriller; thriller; romantic suspense; suspense; romance; HEA; love; hospital; law enforcement; special forces; conspiracy; pandemic; tortured hero; special ops; virus; hazmat; lab; medical; prosthetic; Mystery & Suspense Romance; Medical Thrillers; Terrorism Thrillers; Thrillers; American Contemporary Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Contemporary Romance; Medical Fiction; Entangled Publishing; Amara Next; Julie Rowe; Hell and Back; Outbreak Task Force Series; Stand Alone Romance; Single Title Romance
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2020-08-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

8:52 p.m.

Henry caught the mercenary’s wrist before the asshole could stab him with the knife he’d pulled out of his boot.

The son of a bitch had no intention of fighting fair.

Henry had been holding back, wanting to question the moron, but when Ruby came out in the open, the dick sucker’s expression had changed his mind.

Lust, dark and brutal, had transformed the man’s expression to one of vicious cruelty. He wanted her, and what he planned to do to her was plain on his face. It made Henry feel dirty just to look at him.

This man would always be a danger to Ruby, and he wouldn’t give up until he had her. Or he was dead.

Easy choice. Dead it was.

The man had called him a gimp, thinking it would make him easier to beat. What he didn’t know was Henry’s prosthetic wasn’t a weakness. He’d learned to use it to his advantage in a fight.

He lifted his synthetic leg and rammed the other man’s balls with the knee joint. He hadn’t had a lot of room to build momentum, so he hadn’t hit him very hard, but it was enough of a jolt to shove the bastard off him and squeeze his wrist hard enough to make him drop the knife.

The asshole rolled away and pulled his gun instead.

Henry froze with his hands outstretched wide.

The fucker grinned and winked at him.

Rage a rolling boil in his blood, Henry braced himself for pain, but instead of the mercenary firing his weapon, a baseball bat went spinning past him, connecting with the merc’s hands.

It knocked the weapon out of his grasp, and Henry stepped forward to punch the piece of shit square in the nose. Cartilage crunched under his fist, and blood welled up. The merc jerked, blinking, and kept backing away just fast enough that Henry hadn’t quite caught him before he recovered.

“Fucking asshole.” The merc’s voice was a little slurred as he pulled a second knife out of a sheath hidden in his other boot.

Henry watched the man’s hands and ignored the vitriol he continued to spout—all the ways he was going to hurt Henry and all the disgusting things he was going to do to Ruby.

Ruby, who wasn’t in his field of vision, but had to be somewhere behind him. She’d thrown the bat, but he wasn’t sure what she was doing now. The smart thing for her to do was hide again, in case this mercenary’s friends showed up, but he didn’t think she’d do that. Maybe it was the force she’d used to throw the bat. She hadn’t held anything back. She was either pissed off or scared. Maybe both?

The sound of gunfire shut the merc up for a moment. Henry didn’t let it distract him, since that was a sure way to get dead.

The merc darted at him with the knife but pulled back before getting too close to stop the attack. He was testing Henry’s responses, looking for a weakness to exploit. The guy made several similar moves, always attacking Henry’s right side.

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