Not My Chioce by Storm Aria

Author:Storm, Aria
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-29T00:00:00+00:00

Fifteen:

Torn from above my elbow, a ceramic blade flew from my fingertips just as fast as I unearthed it. A pair of slender blades tickled my fingertips as I shredded through the material on my shirt, ripping up the entire stomach region.

I caught view of the first blade as it narrowly missed the neck of the ex-Seal, but lodged itself in the top of his chest cavity. The man was swifter than I could have given any credit. He still had the presence of mind to rush me, but I kicked out of the chair. I sent a second blade for his carotid artery as the chair forced him to a jarring stop.

As a former assassin, I always targeted major arteries if I could. I never prolonged a fight to play with my metaphorical food. Which, in this case, was the only reason I was swift enough to duck as the double-barrels of the sawed-off shotgun cleared the large wooden table from inside a hidden compartment.

I cursed the damn SEAL for his stubborn tenacity, because if not for evading that first shot, I could have delivered a pair of killing blows in this time. I rolled across the floor as the desk exploded behind me. Ian aimed the shotgun where my body had just been taking refuge. Stray pellets and shrapnel of wood caught in my back. I felt the urge to grunt in pain. I was old friends with torture, so I made no noise to show fragmentation had winged me.

“You’re never going to leave here alive, Bethany. You signed your death ticket the moment you walked away from them!”

Ian roared. I felt a daunting realization impact me.

“You were working for them all this time!”

I said in a room-volume tone. Ian sniggered and said, “Working for? No, more like managing an entire branch. They merely cut me free from the CIA because several clever operatives ran some Briar Circle business up the flagpole. So, I reinvented myself as a merc.”

Everything he said clicked into place. I could see how clever and yet simple it was at the same time. That was why they had never tried awfully hard to catch Ian. He had been protected all this time. What made little sense was why he had not tried to nab me the first time we met. Or did it? He mentioned my injury.

“You were not willing to risk exposing yourself when I was fighting fit last time.”

I surmised. He sniggered again, as if it were some hilarious punchline.

“Unlike you, I don’t feel any distinctive need to crucify myself for the unthankful masses. Not even my people are worth that hell, Bethany. The deathly specter was not someone I wished to trifle with if given the option.”

I could hear stray gun fire roaring from down the hall. The caliber of the rounds being fired was distinctive to those used in the forty-caliber handguns in the FBI and the ones issued to my team. The number and spacing of the shots distinctively told me there was one active shooter incoming.

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