Night Moves by HelenKay Dimon

Author:HelenKay Dimon [Dimon, HelenKay]
Format: mobi
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-06-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Maura sensed the setup right as it sprang. She picked up on Liam’s anxiety. Watched as he steeled his body for the blow that might come when he opened the fifth-floor door. The same shot he was willing to take for her.

No way was she letting him walk into danger without giving him a chance to get out again. As Liam broke the seal on the door, she tiptoed backward, heading for the electrical locker in the corner of the landing. The hiding place would give her an extra second to launch an attack if Liam needed help. In a foreign environment with only the unknown around them, she needed to grab any opportunity that came along.

Fast as she could and without making any noise, she slipped inside. Her sneakers balanced on the thin rim of metal that edged the otherwise open floor. One shift and she’d lose her footing. With nothing to stop her free fall but a few wires—and she didn’t even know if they would hold her weight—dropping into the hole beneath her would mean plummeting down into darkness. She refused to let that happen.

Stiff cables dug into her back and her shoulders curled in as she tried to make her body as small as possible. This was just one more time when she wished she were a petite scrap of a thing. Instead, she had hips and broad shoulders. It would be the ultimate punishment if her body type caused her death.

Tight and folded, she still took up every available inch of the box. The space made the car trunk seem roomy. Warm air blew up from underneath her but she still struggled to breathe. Rather than panic, she focused all of her energy on the weapon in her hand.

When the door whipped open without warning, she aimed the stun gun at her attacker. At the sizzling zap of the prongs, the big man’s eyes popped wide. She didn’t ease up on the contact after the first shot. She knew better. Three seconds and he’d be writhing in pain on the ground. If she could hold on even longer, then all the better.

Time sped by until she lost any sense of just how much had passed. The man dropped his gun, sending it bouncing against the steps as he flopped first to his knees and then into the fetal position.

With his body on the floor, she could see the guard behind him. He stood in the doorway with a gun aimed at Liam’s head. As the scene unfolded, the man’s body went lax. It was as if his muscles strained to fathom the sight of a woman taking out a two-hundred-and-twenty-plus-pound bruiser.

Liam didn’t suffer from the same hesitation. He smashed his elbow up and into the guard’s nose, snapping the man’s head back and causing the hand with the gun to waver as the other one went to protect his face. Taking advantage of being free, Liam drove his shoulder into the guy’s stomach, pressing him back into the far wall.

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