Rogue Agent: A Science Fiction Tale of Assassins, Spies, and Betrayals! (A Star Nation in Peril Book 1) by Skyler Ramirez

Author:Skyler Ramirez [Ramirez, Skyler]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Persephone Entertainment Inc.
Published: 2024-01-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18 – Showdown at the Diner

In her peripheral vision, Heather saw Jimmy go rigid next to her as he took in the four large men in tracksuits blocking the way to his truck. She could spy guns underneath at least two of their loose windbreakers, but their hands were luckily empty, probably due to an overabundance of confidence in their superior numbers.

“Uh, what do you guys want?” Jimmy asked, trying to sound firm but with a clear tremble in his voice.

The thugs ignored him, their eyes fixated on Heather. “Kill the boy; bring the woman with us,” one of the men in the center rumbled, and the two guys on the end started walking toward her and Jimmy.

Heather braced herself, going up onto the balls of her feet, taking a defensive stance, and cursing herself for getting out of Tabitha’s car just because she’d gotten angry with the woman. It was a stupid rookie move, and she was going to pay for it now. Worse, Jimmy would probably be paying for it with her.

She was calculating angles and how to take down the two approaching thugs without opening herself up to fire from the two who had stayed by the truck. And that’s when Jimmy intervened.

To her shock and horror, the boy stepped in front of her, between her and the approaching thugs.

“Dawn, run!” he cried, balling his hands into fists.

Idiot!

Springing forward, she shoved him roughly out of the way. By that point, the closest man was only two paces away, so she used the momentum of her shove off Jimmy to propel her in his direction, seemingly by accident, as she faked a stumble. The approaching thug opened his arms to grab her.

In one fluid move, Heather grabbed the knife from the small of her back, whipped it out and, in a quick slashing motion, severed the guy’s carotid artery. Blood sprayed on her as he fell, and she leaped sideways toward the other closest thug, who was fumbling for his weapon at his belt.

He dodged her first swipe with the knife and lifted one of his beefy arms to block the second, crying out in pain and rage as the blade bit deep into his forearm. He lowered the arm and instinctively grabbed at it with his other hand to stop the bleeding, leaving him open to another slashing attack by Heather that didn’t miss the mark this time.

She whirled next to face the two other men, both of whom now had their guns out and were raising them to point at her. They were four and five meters away, much too far for her to reach them before they could get off a shot. So, she flipped the knife in her hand to grasp it by the blade and threw it at the closest of the two. The hasty throw took him in the chest, not the neck where she usually aimed, but it was enough to make him drop the gun and stumble to the ground with a cry of surprised pain.

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