Nowhere to Run by Steven Pajak

Author:Steven Pajak
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Steven Pajak, U.S. Marshals, Fugitive, running from the law, chasing criminals, crime fiction, cops and robbers, outrunning the law, crime fiction authors, crime fiction novels, crime fiction writers, conspiracy fiction, government corruption, organized crime thrillers
Publisher: Chevron Books
Published: 2019-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 20

MAGGIE LEANED FORWARD and used her mouse to scroll back through the video one frame at a time, stopping it just as the assailant entered the living room. This was probably the twentieth time she’d replayed the video since the team first watched it upon arriving at the scene.

Victoria Davenport was one badass chick. If Maggie were a dude, she would’ve had a raging hard-on right now. Victoria was attractive, but that wasn’t what most excited Maggie. It was not only the way the woman handled herself, but also the way the woman kicked ass that most impressed her.

Maggie pressed play and watched the video again. On the computer screen, the now-deceased assailant paused when he first entered the room, perhaps waiting for his eyes to adjust to the darkness, before finally crossing the family room. After a few seconds, he moved around behind Victoria. That was his first mistake. He should have shot her when he first walked into the room, while she slept.

On the video, Victoria sat up in the chair—she must have heard or sensed the creep was in the room—and turned on the lamp. The quality of the video was not great, and Maggie couldn’t tell if he pressed the barrel of the gun against Victoria’s neck, but he probably did. That was his next mistake, alerting her to his presence.

I wish there was sound, Maggie thought. The right half of the man’s face was swathed in shadows, but Maggie thought he also spoke, further alerting Victoria. Yet another mistake. In an instant, Victoria was out of the chair, kicking the furniture and knocking her assailant’s shot wide of its mark. Woken from a dead sleep, the chick had the presence of mind to not only know her attacker’s location, but to react so quickly and violently . . .

Damn. I thought I was good, but she’s scary good.

On the video, Victoria and her assailant struggled for a minute or so before she finally locked the goon into a choke hold. This was his last mistake and it would cost him his life. Smart how she wrapped her legs around him, pinning his arms, because he was bigger and stronger, but not stronger than her legs.

I take it back. His first mistake was underestimating her. It was over as soon as it started, Maggie thought.

Now, the boy entered the living room as the man futilely struggled for air, his legs kicking wildly, feet digging for purchase against the floor. Maggie saw pure horror on the boy’s face and she wanted to hug him, tell him everything was going to be okay. It was obvious the boy had no clue that his mom was a badass special agent trained as a lethal weapon. Without sound, Maggie could not hear the boy speak, but she read his lips when he yelled out “Mom” and then stood frozen, looking on while Victoria choked out the baddy.

Maggie was still amped about how badass Victoria was, but at the same time, she sympathized that the boy was witness to his mother’s savagery.

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