Bodyguard's Baby Surprise

Author:Lisa Childs
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-05-08T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Nick’s head buzzed with the rapid retort of gunfire. Cooper had warned him, had shared his suspicion that someone might stage another attack outside the hospital. He hadn’t needed the warning. His instincts had told him the same thing.

They could have tried to sneak out another way. Before they’d left the waiting room, they had studied the alternative exits. But walking into the parking garage or the back alley would have been more dangerous. They could have been trapped. The lobby entrance was along a four-lane street with plenty of room for escape.

The only trick was not to get hit. Ducking low and using his body as a shield to protect Annalise, as Gage used his as a shield to protect Penny, they ushered the women into the open door of the Payne Protection vehicle parked directly outside the lobby doors.

The vehicle—this one with bulletproof glass and metal—withstood the onslaught of bullets.

“Hurry up,” Garek ordered from the driver’s seat. But he didn’t wait for Gage to pull the door closed behind them before he careened away from the curb and into the street. Gage struggled but managed to slam the door closed.

Outside the darkened glass, Nick watched the flashes of gunfire. How many shooters had lain in wait for them?

There had to be more than the one man who’d escaped him in the parking garage and the second man who’d escaped him in his ransacked house.

With all that gunfire, there were definitely more than two shooters. More than two people after him and Annalise. The threat kept increasing. Why?

Who the hell wanted him dead that badly?

Even though the doors were closed, and the distance between them and the shooters grew as Garek sped away from the hospital, Nick kept his arms wrapped protectively around Annalise. His head was even still bowed over hers, her face in his chest.

She trembled against him.

“Are you okay?” he asked her.

He felt her move but couldn’t tell if she nodded or shook her head. He eased back slightly. She peered up at him, her green eyes wide with fear and her face pale. But she nodded and assured him, “I’m okay.”

He leaned across Annalise to ask Penny. “Are you okay?”

She smiled and, reaching across Annalise, patted his hand and said, “Of course I am.”

They hadn’t wanted to put her in danger. But she already was, as much as she looked like her daughter. If she’d gone out another door alone, a gunman might have mistaken her for Nikki and shot her.

Gage seemed okay. He was trying to twist his long body to ease over the console and into the passenger seat. But Garek turned the vehicle, and Gage struck his head on the roof and cursed.

He might have a concussion, but he wasn’t shot. So he was safer in the SUV than he would have been in the lobby with the others.

Annalise turned around and peered toward the hospital disappearing in the distance. “Is everyone else okay?” she asked.

“Yes,” Garek replied from the front seat as he tapped his radio earpiece.

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