Lion_A Will Slater Thriller by Matt Rogers

Author:Matt Rogers [Rogers, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-03T23:00:00+00:00

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Slater’s fast-twitch muscle fibres fired and he realised — in the half-second it took to connect the dots and place the guard from the night before — that everything he’d fought to accomplish since he’d rescued Shien from that limousine came down to how fast he could react.

He spotted a congestion of silhouettes at the very end of the corridor, over one of the guard’s shoulders. There was no time to discern where they were looking, or who they were — Slater simply recognised them as potential witnesses and burst off the mark, acting out of impulse.

His fingers were halfway through the act of wrapping around the guard’s instinctive, involuntary handshake. In one motion he tightened his grip with every ounce of strength in his bones, and crushed the guard’s hand to ensure the guy wouldn’t manage to slip out of his grip. Then he yanked the guard into the elevator, wrenching the man forward, throwing his balance off and making him stumble wildly across the threshold and into the cable car.

At the same time, Slater reached out blindly with his other hand and smashed his palm against the “close doors” button — once, twice, three times.

A little more than a single second had unfolded by the time the steel elevator doors responded in prompt fashion to Slater’s command and whisked closed.

The interior of the cable car turned to madness, but Slater could deal with madness.

He couldn’t deal with detection.

There hadn’t been any time to check whether any of the guests in the corridor had spotted the abrupt series of gestures, but as the doors touched together and sealed the cable car’s occupants off from the outside world, Slater unleashed hell.

The guard had seized a moment of capitalisation as Slater fumbled with the control panel, taking the chance to swing a wild haymaker at his face. Slater noticed the punch coming and shot away from the majority of the impact, sidestepping to allow the fist to crash against his head at the peak of its trajectory.

As a result, very little power was transferred through to Slater’s skull.

Nerve endings fired across his temple — nothing adrenalin couldn’t deal with. He shrugged off the non-concussive strike and darted back into range, bundling the guy into the opposite wall.

My turn, he thought.

He stayed as calm as possible — given the fact that one wrong move could result in a knockout punch and allow the guard to beat him to death with his bare hands. He reached up with both hands and looped them around the back of the guard’s head, clasping his fingers together at the base of his neck.

In Muay Thai, it was called seizing the clinch.

In the heat of the moment it seemed idiotic — reaching for a favourable hold instead of letting punches fly seemed like a short-term disaster. It allowed the security guard to hammer a couple of punches into Slater’s mid-section, but he’d been prepared for that. His core muscles were tense, hard as rocks, ready to take anything the guy could throw at them in the split second he had to try his luck.

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