Wait for Me: Family Love Story in Alaska... A Christian Romance Novel with a Sidearm of Suspense (Vacation Sweethearts Book 3) by Jan Thompson

Author:Jan Thompson [Thompson, Jan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781944188313
Publisher: Georgia Press LLC
Published: 2019-09-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Howling like a wolf, Logan hoped to create enough distraction for their two rescuers to do something. What he didn’t expect was to see Marie move so fast that in a split second, she had disarmed her guard, stabbed him—where did that dagger come from?—and knocked him unconscious to the floor.

She picked up his handgun.

Logan forgot about the pain in his elbow. All he could think of right now was that he had just seen his ex-wife make some moves unbecoming of a garden-variety translator.

All around her were dead people. The shipboard security was no match for the intruders.

Marie looked up, not at Logan, but at their two other rescuers, the ones who had rappelled down to their balcony on ropes still hanging out there over the railing.

In front of Logan, with the tables and armchairs overturned, their rescuers were in close combat with the one intruder—the one who had spoken the most to Marie earlier.

Logan heard more engine noises coming from the sea. Oh no.

Two—three—more people landed on the balcony.

“Logan! Come on!” Marie yelled at him. “Now, Logan!”

Logan stumbled across the carpet toward Marie, but before he could reach her, Marie lunged forward and pinned him to the floor.

Logan heard gunfire. He closed his eyes.

He heard more gunfire, and then a thud.

He opened his eyes to see a man wearing night vision goggles sprawled out on the floor.

“Get up.” Marie rolled off Logan, and pulled him out of the stateroom.

In the hallway, at least twenty feet away, more security personnel had assembled in the nook where they served snacks and morning buffet.

“Logan needs medical attention.” Marie pointed to his left arm.

Someone nodded and radioed the ship’s medical center.

“You’re coming with me, right?” Logan asked.

“Soon. Zaid needs help.” Marie surprised Logan with her answer.

“Zaid?” So their rescuers were Aliyah’s bodyguards?

How did Marie recognize him behind his mask?

How well did Marie know Zaid?

A question for later.

Someone ran down the hallway toward them, his handguns by his side. It was Aliyah’s third bodyguard.

Marie said something to him.

It sounded like Arabic.

Logan remembered that Marie had translated Arabic into French and English before. Which led him to wonder how much interaction Marie had with Zaid.

A small wrinkle of jealousy gripped Logan’s heart.

Logan heard the name Omar, and guessed that it could be the bodyguard’s name. He did not understand the rest of their back-and-forth in Arabic. The conversation ended when the bodyguard handed Marie two guns that somehow appeared out of his flak jacket.

Logan thought it was odd that the man trusted Marie with his weapons. Did he know who Marie was?

More than Logan knew?

Marie turned to one of the ship’s security personnel who looked about the same size as she was. “Your vest, please.”

Logan’s heart beat faster. He didn’t want her to die. “Marie?”

“Pray, Logan.” And she followed Omar down the hall, back into her stateroom.

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