Winter's Rage (The Crimson Winter Reverse Harem Series Book 3) by Lindsey R. Loucks

Author:Lindsey R. Loucks [Loucks, Lindsey R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

I swam through blind panic in my haste to get away, get Sasha away, but time had slowed to a crawl. I couldn't think. And I couldn't outrun a bullet in time.

Thomas crashed into me and locked his arms around me and Sasha in a protective cocoon. He jerked and the coppery scent of blood filled the air. He'd been hit.

"Run!" he shouted as he shoved us away. His forearms slammed into my back as he reached into his coat and brought out his gun, already swiveling toward the door.

The gunfire ceased, and not a second afterward, Thomas kicked the door down. There were shouts. Chaos. My thoughts scrambled round and round as I raced down the hallway toward the stairs.

That blonde woman had set a trap for us, had lured us with compliments and false promises. But how much of her lies had been partly true?

"Grady!" I yelled over the clamor behind me. "Grady!"

No answer. Was he even here? I reached the bend in the hallway and faced Sasha toward the one we hadn't gone down, where the woman had told us Faust was. One door juddered hard, as if it had been locked from the outside with a key. From inside, muffled shouts and the scrape of wood sounded.

Grady. As if to confirm it, Sasha wriggled free of my coat and yipped right in my ear.

Another muffled shout came from inside, a growled mix of frustration and hope.

It came from the second door on the left. The woman had told us where both Faust and Grady were but had switched the rooms.

Not an accident. Not even a little bit. Faust had probably paid her well.

I hauled toward the door and slammed my fists against it, tried the knob, swept my boot back and kicked. "Grady!"

An answering growl sounded behind it, and it triggered Sasha into a meltdown. She squirmed so hard that half her body soon dangled out of my coat, and her loud whimpers warred with my clanging heartbeat. It was him in there. It had to be.

"Hush. Hush." I wrestled her back into my coat and rested my hand against the door to ground myself. "Wait for me, Grady."

The door stopped vibrating. He'd heard me. He trusted me to get him out.

My mind raced as I made my way to the stairwell entry, then gazed left down the other hallway. Eerie quiet thickened the air. The door to the room at the end of the hall leaned against the opposite wall, completely torn from its hinges and riddled with bullet holes. I didn't know where Thomas had gone, whether there was another stairwell, whether he'd been shot one too many times.

"Thomas?" I tried, but my breaths were too shallow to speak.

If he were in there dead— If someone else was lurking inside, waiting for someone else to pick off…

No, I had to get Grady out first. It sickened me to not go check, but I took to the stairs. I knew exactly where Grady was, so I'd focus on him first.

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