Tall, Dark and Daring by Suzanne Brockmann

Author:Suzanne Brockmann
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2011-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

THE FIRE ALARM WENT OFF.

Jake and his team had just moved out of the stairwell and onto the fifth floor.

The noise was deafening—it came from one of those old-fashioned bells attached to the concrete block wall. It was good. It would mask their approach. No one would hear them coming.

There was one emergency light at the end of the hallway. It was old, with a bulb that sputtered and flickered, giving the impression that they were lit by leaping flames.

Welcome to hell.

Jake slowed as they moved closer to the door that led to Christopher Vincent’s private suite of rooms. And when the door opened, he moved against the wall into the shadows. He didn’t need to look behind him to know that Harvard and the rest of the team had disappeared, as well.

Christopher came striding out.

He was followed by his entourage of guards and lieutenants.

“Get the car, Reilly,” he ordered. “Bring it to the front and—”

Jake stepped into the light, shotgun held high, finger heavy on the trigger. “I think you can probably leave the car in the garage for now, Reilly,” he said, shouting over the noise of the alarm.

Christopher Vincent froze, but behind him, a half a dozen guards shouldered their weapons.

Jake didn’t have to turn around to know that his SEALs were standing behind him, their weapons already locked and loaded. He could see them in the eyes of Vincent and his men.

“What do you think, Chris?” Jake shouted over the alarm. “My guess is we could have it out right here. Maybe some of your guys will get away, but you sure as hell won’t. Do you know what a twelve-gauge can do to a man at ten feet?” Jake turned his head slightly without ever letting his eyes leave Vincent. “Hey, Bob, what you got in here? Double-ought buckshot?”

“Five rounds of it.” Bobby’s deep bass voice had no problem cutting through the racket.

“One round’ll do,” Jake told the CRO leader. “Think of it as the equivalent of me firing, oh, about six or seven regular bullets all at the same place at the same time. It’ll put a big hole in you, Chris. And while I’m looking forward to doing that, you may not be, in which case it would be really smart of you to tell your men to drop their weapons. Now.”

Jake had played mind-game poker plenty in his career, but this was no bluff. He suspected Chris recognized the edge of insanity he saw in Jake’s eyes.

“Do as they say,” Christopher ordered his men.

Harvard took over, collecting their weapons, pushing the men onto the ground and searching them none too gently for anything they might be carrying concealed.

“Can someone shut that damn thing off?” Jake asked. His head was aching and his stomach hurt. Part of him wished Christopher Vincent hadn’t given in. It didn’t seem fair that he was still alive while Zoe…

He was going to have to go in there, into Vincent’s quarters, and carry Zoe’s lifeless body out of here.

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