The Princess Predicament by Lisa Childs

Author:Lisa Childs [Childs, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance
ISBN: 9780373696772
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Pain radiated from Whit’s shoulder throughout his body—to every place a blow had connected. But he had landed more blows than he’d received. He had even knocked out a couple of the men.

But then Bruno lifted his gun again, this time swinging the handle toward Whit’s head. He ducked and the blow glanced off his wounded shoulder.

He groaned so loudly that his throat burned from the force of it. Pain coursed through him, but rage followed it, chasing away the pain. Blind with anger, Whit reached out and jerked the weapon from Bruno’s beefy hand.

Before he could slide his finger onto the trigger, barrels pointed at him and triggers cocked with ominous clicks.

“Drop it!” Cosmo ordered.

Whit shook his head. “You’re not the one giving orders here. Who is?”

“You’re not going to find out,” Cosmo said. “You’re going to be dead long before we land.”

Even though he’d grabbed a weapon, there were still too many fighting him. He might not make it off this plane, but he had to know about Gabby. “What about the princess? Does the person giving orders want her alive or dead?”

“What does it matter to you?” Cosmo asked. His eyes narrowed and he nodded. “Ever since you started at the palace, she was always asking everybody about you and following you around, mooning over you. So is that baby she’s carrying yours?”

Whit clenched his jaw, grinding his teeth together with frustration that he couldn’t claim his baby. Doing so might risk the child’s safety and Gabby’s. The last man who had thought he’d kidnapped her, but had abducted Charlotte instead, had wanted to get her pregnant with his own child. Even though Prince Linus was in custody, he was still a wealthy man; he or his father could have paid these guys to abduct the right woman this time.

Cosmo took Whit’s silence as affirmation and shook his head in mock sympathy. “Too bad you’ll never get to see it being born.”

Because they were going to kill Whit or because they were going to kill Gabby, too?

“Shoot the damn gun!” The order echoed inside the cabin, but it was a female voice that uttered it. A sweet, strong voice—Gabby’s. She stood near the entrance to the cargo hold.

When he’d heard her stop her fake retching, he’d figured she was going to sneak out of the bathroom soon. So he’d provided a distraction for her. That was why he’d started swinging despite being outmatched. He had wanted to distract the other men, so they wouldn’t notice her. Apparently she’d gone from the bathroom to the cargo hold. Looking for an escape or a weapon?

“Whit,” she said, making it clear her order was for him, “trust me—shoot the gun!”

“What the hell?” Cosmo whirled toward her with his gun drawn.

And Whit couldn’t trust that the other man wouldn’t fire. So he did. He lifted his gun and fired a bullet through the roof of the cabin.

The other men cursed as the plane dropped, losing altitude fast. Whit leapt over them, heading toward Gabby.

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