The Job by Jove Belle

Author:Jove Belle
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781626392571
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2014-10-13T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

The security guard climbed to his feet and joined the hunt for scissors. Sera followed Tor as she searched the shelves. She had no doubt that Tor would find them first, but she wasn’t just looking at office supplies. She was scanning for potential weapons. Not that she expected to find a rocket launcher hidden among the paperclips, but there had to be something she could use to level the playing field. So far, the bay of ream after ream of white printer paper was the most substantial offering, but it was of no use to her. The threat of paper cuts by the thousand paled next to being aerated by a sub-machine gun.

“Here!” Tor gave a little hop and gestured toward the scissors. She spoke well above the safe whisper they’d been using.

“Shh.” Sera couldn’t stop her mouth from curving into a smile. “They’ll hear you.”

“Right. Sorry.” Tor didn’t look sorry. She looked hopeful, as if she were a completely different person from the one who had witnessed her friend being shot just a few moments ago. If she could have, Sera would have taken the time to comfort Tor and ask how she was holding up. But she knew that the answer, and the emotions that went with it, would take more than a few minutes to sort out.

She stared at Tor long enough for her smile to turn serious. Tor looked at her with such raw longing Sera felt as though they were caught inside one of those vacuum-sealed bags, pulled close and unable to breathe. And then Tor shook her head and blinked, and that was that. When she looked at Sera again, it was as though the emotions had never surfaced.

The guard cleared his throat and shifted from foot to foot. As much as she hated the interruption, Sera also appreciated it. She wanted so much more than a few fleeting minutes with Tor. She wanted to be with her in a time and place where a madman holding a detonator wasn’t her primary concern. If that moment had any chance of occurring, they needed to get moving. She grabbed a pair of scissors and said, “Turn around.”

She freed the guard first, then Tor. She turned over the scissors to Tor and held out her hands.

When they were finished, the guard took the scissors. “I’ll start on the others.”

“Thanks.” Sera nodded. She felt bad about the red, swollen contusion on the side of his face where Marcus had struck him. Hopefully, she’d have an opportunity to explain herself later. The guard gave her a serious look, then returned to the other hostages.

Sera took Tor’s hands in hers and rubbed the angry red lines left behind by the zip ties. She pressed her thumbs into the grooves lightly, covering the line completely. Without a word, she kissed first one side, then the other.

When Sera had joined the FBI, her life had been one big swirling mess. She and Tor had split, and everything had just fallen apart after that.

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