Reluctant Hero by Debra Webb

Author:Debra Webb
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-11-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

When the lights flickered, twice, and then went out as her captor heeded her request, Becca readied herself to fight. Today was the day she’d break free of this room. He’d been in this room with her. She had a sense of his size and power. She would have one chance, one moment when surprise was on her side. She had to make this work or he might never let her go no matter what he’d said that first night. Reminding herself she’d be fighting Lawton, she bounced a little on her bare feet. Whether or not it was true, she had to believe she was going up against someone who’d once had morals and might pull a punch rather than hurt an innocent woman.

Overnight, she’d done what she could to interfere with the camera feeds, without making it obvious she was the root of the trouble. When the red lights were out, she’d balanced on her suitcase, scraping and prying at the lenses, half-afraid he’d burst through the door and tie her up. That approach hadn’t worked, so she’d resorted to using the tweezers from her toiletry case to work on the screws in the brackets. Once the brackets were loose, she jammed her metal nail file into the nest of wires behind the camera by the door and hoped for the best.

“Step back from the door,” the menacing, altered voice rumbled through the speaker.

She obeyed, silently lamenting whatever sensor or gadget kept him informed of her actions in here. Did he have it wired for infrared too?

The door opened with the familiar near-silent whoosh and she heard the rustle of plastic. Her heart stuttered in her chest. Though he’d never really laid a hand on her, she feared that was about to change. Permanently. She’d seen enough true-crime documentaries and read enough fiction thrillers to know the preferred material for containing evidence of a murder was plastic.

She tried to rein in her racing imagination. While it was hard to accept that a veteran with Lawton’s record would kill her in cold blood, it wasn’t an unprecedented situation. People went off the rails every day, and she suspected very few of them had his motivation of keeping millions of dollars in gold.

Her skin went hot and then cold and she trembled, faced with the daunting task of survival. She would not become a victim without a fight that left her mark on him. She refused to die alone and unheard in this horrible room with all its comfortable amenities.

Holding her breath, she heard only his footfalls, the plastic and the whisper of the door moving on those unbeatable, industrial hinges. Timing her attack based on the way he’d entered on previous visits, she waited until he was through the door to strike.

She didn’t do the obvious lunge for the open door. He had to be prepared for that option. No, she kicked the small ottoman behind him into the gap, praying it would be enough to prevent the door from closing.

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