Noble Ultimatum by Ryan L. T

Author:Ryan, L. T. [Ryan, L. T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: thriller
Amazon: B08K7FXKSF
Goodreads: 55665070
Publisher: Liquid Mind Media
Published: 2021-05-18T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28

The door shifted a few inches in the breeze. No other movement could be detected from within. Had it been a setup all along? He glanced at Sadie to judge her reaction. Fake or legit? She had always been hard to read, and that was the case today.

Why go to these lengths if the plan was to kill Jack and Bear? They could’ve done that at the hotel, in the hospital. Instead, they invested time and money and effort into bringing them God-knows-where to work this case because they could reach Clarissa in a way no one else on Clive’s team could. Not even Sadie. Clarissa would trust Jack and Bear and nobody else.

“I don’t like this.” Sadie hiked up her pantleg and retrieved a smaller pistol. She checked the chamber. “Sorry, Jack, this is my backup, and Bear’s got the other one.”

“All that odds in my favor stuff is overrated.”

She smiled, but it was forced. How could it be otherwise right now? “So, what’s the layout of this place? You spent time there, right? Once you are in, where do you go?”

Jack imagined entering the apartment after one of his late nights at the bar while Clarissa was off doing whatever she did instead of working. “Stairs on the right, two small couches on the left, perpendicular. Small television under the stairs. Narrow opening leading to the kitchen. Old stovetop. Small fridge. No oven. Microwave. Knife block. Bathroom.”

“Back door?”

“No.”

“Upstairs?”

“Pretty basic. The stairs open up to a loft type area. No doors other than for a small closet and a wet bath.”

“Toilet, shower, and sink all in one?”

“Pretty much all they could fit in the space.”

“Any way out?”

“Window to a roof. About an eight-foot drop.”

“The roof part of her place?”

“No. Neighbor’s.”

“Could someone get in that way?”

Jack had never tried, but it seemed possible. “Guess so.”

“Shit.”

They fell silent, letting their ears observe as much as their eyes.

“One of us has to go in,” Jack said.

“We wait here,” she said. “Bear would make a noise, call out if something happened.”

“Bear’s in there. He’s not himself. Someone could get the drop on him, take him out, we’d never hear a peep. He could have two guys on top of him right now, choking him out.”

“Stand down, Noble.”

“Not a chance.” He sprinted toward the apartment, leaving Sadie to call out to him to stop. Her words didn’t slow him, but the bicycle that came whipping around the corner did when it slammed into Jack and knocked him off his feet.

The impact knocked the wind out of him. His palms, right cheek, chin, burned from grating across coarse asphalt and gravel. He got to a knee and turned his head.

“Jack!”

He caught sight of her running toward him in his peripheral. Her body disappeared, blocked out by the large fist careening toward his face. He closed his eyes, leaned back, felt the wind off the thick knuckles that breezed past his nose.

The man lost his balance and stumbled toward Noble. Jack dipped his right shoulder low, exploded forward, catching the guy on his knee.

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