On the Edge by Shannon Stacey

Author:Shannon Stacey [Stacey, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, General, Suspense, Suspense Fiction; American, Legal Stories; American
ISBN: 9781599984452
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Published: 2006-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter SixTony’s phone vibrated and he pushed the open comm button on his earpiece. “Casavetti.”

“Tony,” Marge said, “I’m monitoring the somewhat crappy satellite feed we managed to line up over Schinias, and we just had a toilet tank lid come smashing out a third floor window of Anetakis’s house.”

“A toilet tank lid?” What the hell?

“Confirmed.”

He pulled out his handheld and called up the plans Charlotte had sketched out from memory. “Which window?”

“Ocean side, center of three.”

She was in his bedroom. Son of a bitch.

“Photo captures from windows confirm at least eight different armed individuals in the house,” Marge continued. “No sign of civilians, but we can’t see into the interior.”

He didn’t care. If it moved and wasn’t Charlotte, it was getting shot.

Marge took a deep breath. “The least activity has been observed in the windows on the west side, but it’s not going to be easy to get to them.”

“I’m going through the door, Marge. This will be one of those messy, non-stealthy Plan B jobs.”

He was checking his gear while he talked, not that there was much of it. With their cover already pretty well blown, he was back in jeans and T-shirt. Over that he wore a vest made from the latest and greatest in lightweight bulletproofing material. Leg coverings of the same material—like chaps, only stopping at the knee—offered some protection to his femoral arteries. The vest had two easy access pockets—one containing his phone and handheld, the other containing three magazines, each holding fifteen rounds. One magazine in each of his back pockets. A full magazine in his piece, and a chambered round.

A Smith & Wesson Military & Police .40 and ninety-one rounds were all the gear he needed.

“At least let me call Gallagher and get him on comm with you,” Marge pleaded with him.

“It’ll be all over before then.” They’d tried this the Group’s way and Charlotte was in trouble. Now they’d do it Tony’s way.

“I don’t have experience with this,” she argued, and he heard a rising note of panic in her voice. He was going to have to shut her off.

“You’ve done great with this job, Marge. But this next part really isn’t your thing and I’m going to disconnect. If you don’t hear from Charlotte or me in thirty minutes, have Gallagher call Christopher Savakis and fill him in on everything we know.”

“Good luck, Tony.”

He thanked her and then hung up on her. It seemed horribly ironic to him that he really, really wished Charlotte Rhames were on comm with him right now. He sucked in a deep breath. The only way to make sure she was on the next job was to go in there and get her out.

Mental snapshots of her flipped through his mind. The outrageous flirt who’d met him at the airport. The all-business exec admin standing next to Alex Rossi. And one last vision—his favorite. Her sleepy smile as she peeked out at him from under the wool blanket on the jet.

Charlotte was in the third-floor master bedroom.

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