Recipe for Disaster by Tracy Solheim

Author:Tracy Solheim
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thriller, Romance, Fiction
ISBN: 9781948342469
Publisher: The Tule Publishing Group, LLC
Published: 2018-04-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Griffin instinctively jumped to his feet and turned to shield Marin with his body. When he reached for his service weapon at his waist, it wasn’t there. He swore violently as he spied it eight feet across the room just as two big men jumped through the broken window blocking his path to his weapon. Neither of them was the Ukrainian special forces jerk with the vendetta against Marin. But both seemed bent on doing the same kind of harm.

Adam and Ben—and even the damn dog—were out of the safe house. A fact these morons probably already knew. Two against one wasn’t the best odds, especially without a gun. Griffin would have to improvise.

Grabbing one of the wooden chairs from the table, he smashed it on the floor, startling the two intruders and giving him a jagged post of wood to use as a weapon at the same time. The one with a spare tire for a neck dodged out of the way of the splintered wood while the bald guy with the bulging eyes made a beeline for Griffin.

Making sure to keep Marin behind him, Griffin lunged at the bald guy, jabbing him hard in the face with the fractured tip of the stool. Caught by surprise, bald guy howled as he staggered backward. The other guy wasted no time pulling a Glock out of his jacket and aiming it at Griffin’s chest. In one quick move, perfected during his hockey days, Griffin shoved Marin to the floor just as the bullet flew past his ear and landed in the oven door with a loud ping.

Marin grabbed his hand and shoved a fire extinguisher into it. Griffin could have kissed her right then and there. Instead, he pulled the pin, turned and fired a stream of pressurized nitrogen and CO2 into the gunman’s face. The second gunshot went wild as the big man screamed in agony.

Griffin jumped to his feet, using the fire extinguisher as a weapon to crack the gunman over the head. The hit knocked the guy out cold. When Griffin turned around, however, he was staring down the barrel of a Glock the bald guy had trained on him. The thug sneered.

In that instant, Griffin’s heart shattered painfully. He had failed Marin. God knew what these brutes had in store for her. He met her wide eyes behind the intruder as the guy began to squeeze the trigger. “I’m sorry,” Griffin mouthed to Marin while he waited for the shot that would end his life.

It never came.

The man holding the Glock began to gurgle and his eyes bugged out even further as he struggled to breathe. The gun discharged its bullet into the wall somewhere behind Griffin just as the thug slumped to the floor, both hands clutching his chest. Griffin jumped over his prone body, being careful not to dislodge the knife jabbed into his heart from behind. He grabbed Marin by the shoulders.

“Is he dead?” she whispered.

“Let’s hope so.” Griffin steered her toward the front of the house, grabbing his holster as they left the kitchen.

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