The Billionaire's Bodyguard by Erin M. Leaf

Author:Erin M. Leaf
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Alex woke with the sheets twisted around his legs. He looked around, but it was still dark, and he couldn’t see a damn thing. Next to him, Jesse slept, a dark lump under the blanket he’d stolen. Alex shivered. Had he been dreaming? He looked to the windows, but Jesse had drawn the curtains before they’d gone to bed. He had no idea what time it was.

“Alex?” Jesse mumbled, rolling over.

“Go back to sleep,” Alex murmured, reaching for his phone on the nightstand. Four-thirty, still too early to get up, he thought, dimming the display so it wouldn’t wake Jesse. He closed his eyes, almost able to convince himself that he’d simply had a bad dream. The windows shattering a scant second later disabused him of that notion. He sat up in bed, heart pounding.

“Fuck!” Jesse exclaimed, suddenly awake. His hand clamped around Alex’s arm. With a single heave, he dragged Alex down to the floor on the far side of the bed.

Alex fell onto the carpet, confused and still half-asleep. “What the hell?”

“Keep your head down,” Jesse hissed, right against his ear. Sharp pop-pop-pops hit the mattress, and Alex’s heart tripped. Gunshots! Shit.

“Helluva way to wake up,” he muttered under his breath. Jesse pulled him closer to the wall, then squeezed off a shot of his own. His had no silencer and the sound nearly deafened him. “Now I know why you stuck your gun under your pillow before we went to sleep. It’s your damn security blanket. Maybe I should get one, too, the way things are going.”

“Shh,” Jesse ordered, shoving him back.

Alex grimaced, then slid his hand under his nightstand. When his fingers closed around his knife, he smiled grimly. He wasn’t totally helpless. Maybe he didn’t sleep with a gun in bed, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t protect himself. Of course, you know what they say about bringing a knife to a gunfight…

Jesse shot at someone again, and then the curtains came down, as if someone had yanked on them. Three black figures headed into the room past the fluttering fabric, quiet as death. They wore ski masks. Jesse aimed and fired a third time. The man in the lead went down, cursing.

“We need to get out of here,” Jesse said.

Alex nodded, already thinking about what to do. “Get us to the closet.” He ducked when one of the men aimed and fired again. A bullet ripped through his nightstand, sprinkling him with wood chips. “Fuck.” He plucked out a splinter by feel since it was too dark to see a damn thing.

Jesse pushed his head lower, shooting again. Another one of the men went down. “I can keep this up all night,” he called out, shooting again. This time he missed.

The last intruder didn’t speak, just kept heading forward, gun out. Alex saw him tap his ear, and then he aimed and squeezed the trigger again. Nothing happened.

“He’s out. Time to go,” Jesse said. He got to his feet and tackled the man as Alex moved to the door of his closet.

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