Steele Ridge Christmas Caper Box Set 3 by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Steele Ridge Publishing

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Emmy’d made a lot of progress in her meditation practice since that first time Cash had done a guided session with her on the water tower outside of town. Sometimes, she went there to practice for nostalgia’s sake. But her ability to calm her mind and focus was improving.

Because honestly, Emmy liked to be good at the things she did. And meditation was the buffer between her and crazy-town some days. So she did a little three-part breathing and kept her stride slow and deliberate, even though Skelly was trying to urge her on by using his gun like a traffic control flag.

She allowed her mind to empty of everything but her breath and the reality of now. Just because this moment had unfolded a certain way, it had no bearing on any future moments. She didn’t have complete control. No one did.

But she could try to make this unfold in a way that benefited her.

In her focused attention, the solution came to her clearly. Calmly. Just the flow of one action after another.

She’d taken an oath to do no harm, but her life was at stake here. She slowed her pace again, lagging behind him a step. He behaved as she’d hoped, stopping and dropping his gun hand just a little. “Move. We—”

Crack. Her heel met the side of his knee, and made Emmy cringe a little inside. Knees weren’t engineered to move sideways.

“Fuck!” He tried to bring the gun up and around, but Emmy anticipated him. She shifted her weight from one foot to the other and executed a side kick that caught his wrist.

No crunch this time, but he released the gun.

Good, because she really didn’t want to cause more damage than necessary, but she would do whatever it took for her and her patients to stay alive.

His leg gave out and down he went on his back, scrambling to retrieve his gun. Pushing with one foot while dragging the other leg. “You bitch, I’ll kill you.”

Who is this guy—a terminator?

Nothing but extreme force was going to stop him, so using her dominant foot, Emmy pulled it back and let loose, catching him nicely in the seam of his starched khakis. By the feel of it, his testicles should now be in the vicinity of his brain stem.

“Gluuuhrb…” He strangled out a word that was not a word and curled up like a roly poly bug, trying to protect a scrotum that had already been caught unawares.

Too little, too late.

Emmy stepped around him and snatched up the gun, aiming it at the man’s head.

The team came charging in like a herd of Kevlar-saddled buffalo and skidded to a stop when they caught sight of the guy on the ground. To a one, every man on the team covered his crotch with at least one hand.

The team leader quickly dropped his, muscled the dealer onto his stomach, and cuffed him.

“Was there anyone else in the house?” she asked the team leader.

“No, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have more assholes running this crap.

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