Hard to Come By by Kaye Laura

Author:Kaye, Laura [Kaye, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Military, Suspense, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9780062267931
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2014-11-25T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Between Jeffers’s constant stream of threats and jabs with the gun at her head and the soft space under her chin, the throbbing of her skull and back from where he’d hit her earlier, and the way each fired shot ratcheted up the fear and adrenaline in her body, Emilie was holding on by a very thin thread.

But Derek had come for her. Somehow he’d found her and come for her. The GPS on her cell phone, maybe? Who knew. All that mattered was that, because of Derek, she was going to have a chance to come out of this alive.

Sitting in a chair in the corner of a dingy office, Emilie kept her eyes trained on Jeffers. If she got a chance to disable him, she would take it. Her brain raced as she considered what she might do to get his gun away from him or knock him out.

Three more shots echoed from the hallway. Closer now than before.

“Come on,” Jeffers growled as he looked at his cell. The minute they’d holed up in this room, the guy had placed some calls. To whom, she didn’t know, but it was clear that he expected help to arrive. And that Jeffers considered her someone that a church would want. Whatever that meant.

How did a police officer get away with being this fundamentally bad?

The doorknob turned, just the littlest bit. Unfortunately, Jeffers must’ve seen it, too, because he yanked Emilie from the chair by the arm and held her in front of him again. What a freaking coward this guy was.

The door exploded inward in a spray of wooden shards. Emilie barely bit back a scream as a huge dark-blond-haired man appeared in the doorway.

Jeffers fired a series of shots at the opening and the man jumped back and disappeared. A moment later, the man ran across the opening of the ruined doorway, firing as he moved. Emilie braced and flinched, waiting for her body to register the searing pain of a gunshot. But it didn’t happen. Cement dust rained down from the wall above them.

And then another shot, and Jeffers hollered and jerked his gun hand. Where had that shot come from? But the answer hardly mattered because just then, Jeffers’s weapon clattered to the floor as his hold loosened across her shoulders and throat.

Reacting on pure instinct, Emilie reached behind her, grabbed the man’s crotch, and squeezed as hard as she could. He let her go altogether as he roared in outrage and pain. She scrambled to the floor for the gun, turned on her butt, and pointed it at her captor. She squeezed the trigger.

“Don’t shoot!” came a voice from behind her.

But the bullet had already hit Jeffers in the chest, and the man went immediately pale as he grabbed his hands over his heart.

“Oh, my God,” she said as the reality of what she’d just done sank in. Her world sucked down to the hole in the front of his shirt and the small stain of red spilling from it.

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