Christmas Tango: A Soldiering On Novella by Aislinn Kearns

Author:Aislinn Kearns [Kearns, Aislinn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-11-21T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Duncan peered around the corner at the end of the corridor, watching that asshole pull Mandy around from door to door. The lackey that was meant to be guarding Duncan’s end of the corridor stood too far down to effectively guard the entrance. He leaned against the wall, his gun drooping from his hand as he watched his boss drag Mandy around.

At first Duncan had thought that the leader had planned to do something nefarious to Mandy when he’d pushed her into one of the rooms, and red rage had hazed his vision.

However, it soon became obvious that whatever Mandy was doing, it was her choice. In fact, Duncan would put money on the fact of her leading this dick around by the…well, dick.

He ducked back around, out of sight. Now, he just needed to figure out how to get Mandy away from the asshole so he could get her to safety. It was the perfect opportunity now that she was alone—mostly. Problem was that if he fired at her captor he risked hitting her. If he waited until she was in one of the rooms, it would be more dangerous, because all the bad guys would be looking in his direction, and the angle was bad if he used the wall for cover. He’d have to take the guy nearest to him out first, leaving Mandy too vulnerable because the leader would be within reach of her.

And he couldn’t just charge down the corridor, because it was too far to run in a narrow space, and the guard nearest to him would intercept him easily enough, despite the man’s obvious incompetence. Duncan would be a sitting duck.

His best bet would be if he could get Mandy to drop at the right moment, thereby getting herself out of harm’s way and distracting the three gunmen, but he wasn’t convinced he could catch her eye without making him vulnerable to the asshole’s gunfire.

Annoyed with his own indecision, Duncan figured that he could at least take the lackey down the other end of the corridor out. He had a bad habit of watching his boss’s back when Mandy was in the rooms, leaving his own unprotected. And he stood close enough to the entrance to the corridor that Duncan wouldn’t leave himself exposed if he came up from behind.

Since Mandy only had a few doors left, Duncan padded toward the corridor that paralleled the one where the action was happening. He circled around to the other side of the building with as much hustle as he could manage. His leg hurt like a motherfucker and he wasn’t entirely sure how long he’d stay upright. But if it did collapse, he would drag himself naked over broken glass before letting that bastard keep his hold on Mandy.

Duncan reached the other side of the corridor. As he predicted, the lackey stood with his back to him, watching his boss further down the corridor. Duncan hefted his knife, testing the balance. He waited, hidden in the shadows of an oversized pot plant.

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