THE PERFECT TEN (Boxed Set) by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silver Hawk Press LLC
Published: 2013-08-15T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 59

I twisted, turning toward Bran. The gun in his hand pointed in my direction. The gunman directly behind me.

Time slowed. Sound compressed. Actions became elongated.

Bran’s mouth opened. The report of his gun as bullets zapped out, shooting past me. So close I could feel their wake in the air.

A scream. Mine? His? Sirens drawing closer. A voice shouting. Jaylene’s?

Sounds and sights merged, a grotesque MTV video snapping out of frame.

Then everything crashed into near silence, broken only by the sound of fire engine sirens.

“Are you stupid or what?” Jaylene, materialized beside me now, a weapon in her hand, anger distorting her face. “You have to be the dumbest cowgirl that ever was, you know that? Two more seconds, or your man slower on the draw, and you’d be the one in a puddle of blood instead of this yahoo. You want to die?”

“Me?” I heard the fear in my own voice, but it wasn’t the fear of getting killed, it was the fear of what could have happened. I looked directly at Bran, my voice raised. “I said stay upstairs and what did you do—”

“I saved your life. Again.”

I stepped closer to him, anger, and fear punching through me. “These were real bullets here, not some TV show imitations.”

“I know—”

“No, you don’t know anything. I’m the professional, you’re not. Stick to your dresses.”

It was a cheap, tacky shot but all I had with the shaking in my whole body—the aftereffect of too much adrenaline. That and the awareness of how bloody close Bran had come to getting killed.

He wasn’t a freaking immortal. Hell, he didn’t have enough warlock magic operating to save his hide.

“So be it.” The muscles in his face were held in check, the pulse point in his temple pounding in contrast. “I’ll go back to my dresses. And you’re welcome. Next time I worry you might be in danger I’ll look the other way.”

“Fine by me.”

Jaylene grabbed my arm or I’d have stepped closer and slugged the guy. How dare he scare me like that. “And there won’t be a next time. We’re out of here.”

“Best news I’ve heard for weeks.”

So two could do cheap shots.

“Why, you—”

Jaylene grabbed me tighter.

“Alex, the battle’s over.”

That’s what she thought.

“Jaylene, back off, she’s been hit,” Kelly’s voice spoke from near the doorway; a doorway already filling with yellow suited firefighters.

But my attention wasn’t on any of them. It was on Bran. Standing near one crumpled body, his focus now one hundred percent on the gun in his hand as if wondering where it had come from.

“He dead for sure?” Jaylene shouted to the paramedics bending over the guard’s body in the doorway. Thankfully a human body. Most of the time Jaylene could be a PIA, but right then she was my PIA. Maybe Stone was right, team mattered, as much as family mattered. Damned if I’d ever tell him though.

“He’s dead,” came the dark reply.

The shot had been fatal, taking out the shooter aiming at me. Bran had killed a man.

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