Unbinding 11 by Wilks Eileen

Author:Wilks, Eileen [Wilks, Eileen]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Urban, Romantic Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery & Suspense, Romance, Fiction, United States, Fantasy, Suspense, Paranormal & Urban, Literature & Fiction
ISBN: 9780425263372
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Published: 2014-08-05T07:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-ONE

JOSÉ chivvied Kai and Arjenie under cover quickly—the wide, shaded patio between the two buildings occupied by Café Coyote, across the street from the hobbit house.

“That was you who shouted sniper, right?” Kai asked him as they stopped beside a table where two people had been eating tacos before being evacuated. “What did you see?”

“Gun barrel. Pure luck I saw it in time.” He was grim.

“That’s not luck. That’s good training and practice. If you hadn’t been looking everywhere—not just at ground level—you wouldn’t have seen it. Thank you. But I thought I explained earlier about my vest.”

“You said it’s probably bulletproof. Probably isn’t enough.”

“It’s more bulletproof than you are.”

“And I heal better than you do. You’re bleeding.”

“I am?” Only then did she notice the stinging. She raised a hand to her cheek. “It’s nothing. I scraped it on the pavement. Is everyone okay? Arjenie, you weren’t hit, right? But you got knocked down. Did—”

“I’m fine.” Arjenie cut her off in an abrupt way that wasn’t like her. She looked shaken, but she’d scooped up her backpack from where it fell when Doug tackled her and held it in one hand now. “He was aiming at you.”

Kai’s eyebrows shot up. “You saw him?”

“No, but the policeman who was shot—you were between him and the sniper. If José hadn’t knocked you out of the way—”

“A policemen was shot?” Her heart jumped back into alarm-mode.

Doug spoke. “I don’t think it’s too bad. Look, here they come with him now.”

Two of the men in suits had made a chair with their arms to carry one of the uniformed cops. They were accompanied by Boyd, Ackleford—who was talking on the phone, unfazed by being in the middle of a fire fight—and the female FBI agent. Blood covered one side of the wounded man’s face and turned the shoulder of his crisp blue uniform dark and shiny. A head wound? Yes—his black hair was soaked with it. But he was conscious, even able to hold on to the shoulders of the men carrying him. They lowered him carefully into a chair. “EMTs will be here in a snap,” Boyd told the man. “We’ll have you taken care of real quick, Ruiz. You’re going to be fine.”

Boyd looked around in that assess-the-room way most cops had. It reminded her of Nathan. His gaze latched onto Kai. He strode toward her. “What the hell did you do?”

“Made everyone’s guns stop working. It’ll wear off soon.”

“When?” he demanded.

“Another five or ten minutes?” She paused, considering. She had put a lot of power into the spell. Too much, considering she didn’t have Dell to draw on. She’d panicked. Kai grimaced, acknowledging that. “Maybe more like fifteen or twenty.”

“I need to know when my people’s weapons will be operational again, damn it!”

Kai matched him scowl for scowl. “I gave you my best guess. I haven’t field-tested the spell under these conditions.”

Ackleford walked up, shaking his head. “Funniest damn thing I ever saw.” One corner of his mouth crooked up. “Like we were all kids playing cops and robbers.

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