Love Comes for Christmas: A Rags to Romance Book by Mallory Monroe

Author:Mallory Monroe [Monroe, Mallory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Austin Brook Publishing
Published: 2023-12-11T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

His plane touched down at the New York airfield and Marsh, ready to get this business over with so that he could go on to his more pressing business overseas, hurried down the air steps. An SUV drove up, a bodyguard got out of the front passenger seat and opened the back passenger door, and Ronald Coleman stepped out.

When Marsh saw him he was pleased with his initiative. He met his plane when he wasn’t asked to do so. But that was Ron. He always went that extra step. Marsh was considering making him acting COO until his board of directors could recommend a replacement, but he was still mulling over the idea. He was so accustomed to Ronald being his right-hand man that he didn’t know if he wanted to give that up. Which, he knew, wasn’t fair to Ronald’s career.

“Welcome back, sir,” Ronald said as he buttoned his suit coat. “I hope you caught a big one.”

Marsh looked at him oddly. What was he trying to insinuate? Then he realized Ronald was referencing his gone fishing analogy he told to him during their videoconference. “I caught a big one alright. The biggest,” he said as he moved past Ronald to get in on the back passenger seat. Ronald chuckled although he was totally out to sea on what the boss meant. But just as Marsh moved past him to get into the SUV, a helicopter could be heard buzzing overhead.

When they looked up, it was Ronald who first saw what looked like the flash of a weapon pointing out of the chopper. And then panic set in. “He’s got a gun!” Ronald yelled and just as he began to push Marsh into the SUV gunfire rang out. Ronald jumped on top of Marsh as a hail of bullets came sailing down from that chopper and were heard ricocheting off of the door and body of the SUV and the driver of the SUV sped away. The bodyguard that was holding the back door open was firing back in rapid succession and the chopper began to fly away. But the bodyguard didn’t stop firing until he hit his target: the pilot and seemingly the only person onboard. When he hit and immobilized the target, the chopper began to lose control, and then altitude, and then it began a fast descent that caused it to crash land within inches of the air traffic tower. The flight crew ran down the steps. The bodyguard ran toward the chopper.

But Marsh was already well away from the scene. He and Ronald were getting off of the back seat and were knocking broken glass from their suits.

“What the fuck was that?” Marsh asked.

“Your guess is as good as mine,” replied Ronald, as he continued to look around to ensure there was no additional attacks.

Then Ronald’s cell phone rang. When he saw who it was, he answered and put the call on Speaker. “Did you get that motherfucker?” he asked the caller.

The caller was the bodyguard.

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