Free Fall: An MM Bodyguard Romance by Kathryn Nolan

Author:Kathryn Nolan [Nolan, Kathryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: That's What She Said Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2024-06-05T00:00:00+00:00

21

LUKE

The space between the man’s words and Elijah’s movements lasted a second.

If that.

Yet everything around me slowed to the point of absurdity, becoming painfully obvious.

The wild urge to laugh at the way he’d said I’m here to kill you, like he was checking in for a dentist’s appointment. How his facial expression never changed, not even when he lunged forward with a knife. How the small plate of mini éclairs he held crashed to the floor first.

How none of those details really mattered, because all I cared about was one thing.

Elijah.

He reacted so quickly, so confidently, I was only aware of his body stepping in front as the knife swung my way. Only aware of one big hand shoving me back as he hooked an arm around the man’s neck and brought him down to the floor with a quiet fury.

The people around us screamed and a server dropped a plate of champagne flutes.

The man gasped, choking, and then Elijah was flipping his body and pressing him face down into the floor, one knee on his spine. He shouted something into his walkie as other security personnel rushed our way. Someone called 911. Someone else asked if I was okay.

Meanwhile, my brain was stuck in a single loop.

Elijah, knife, Elijah, knife, Elijah, knife.

I frantically searched for blood, for a wound, for any sign he was hurt. I sprang forward, reaching for him, but Elijah stopped me with a hand to the chest. Still kneeling, chest heaving, he twisted at the waist and met my eyes.

“Are you hurt?” he asked, voice eerily calm while anguish burned in his gaze. His fingers flexed where they held my shirt, gripping the fabric.

“Me? No, not at all,” I sputtered. “Are you? Did he…?”

“Your father ruined my life,” my would-be attacker screamed. “And you’re just like him, you piece of⁠—”

Elijah gripped the man’s hair and yanked up his head.

“Say one more word and I rip your goddamn face off,” he said through clenched teeth.

Sylvester was rushing over, followed closely by the police. They shoved Elijah back and took over restraining the man on the ground. I watched Elijah rise slowly and have a short, terse conversation with the other guards. Then he turned on his heel and took me by the elbow.

“I need to speak with you,” he growled, “now.”

He dragged me through a crowd of people trying to get our attention. Grady pushed toward us, asked where we were going, but I only had eyes for my bodyguard, who radiated a dangerous frustration that tripled my already erratic pulse. The cords in his neck stood out, the muscle in his jaw flexed, and when someone tried to stop him from going down a hallway, he barked “Move” so furiously the person audibly gulped.

We passed three doors. At the fourth one, Elijah pushed it open, revealing what looked like a guest bedroom, eerily empty in the moonlight spilling in from the windows. Sirens screamed in the distance as Elijah yanked me inside.

Slammed the door shut.

Locked it.

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