Unstable Target: Six Assassins Book 3 by Heskett Jim & Thacker Nick

Author:Heskett, Jim & Thacker, Nick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Turtleshell Press
Published: 2020-04-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

WELLNER

The President sat in his car in the parking garage underneath the Denver Consolidated Holdings building. His two personal security guards plus two building security guards stood outside the car, waiting for him to exit. The car was still running, a low rumble of the heater pushing dry and warm air around his feet.

Wellner’s hand rested on the door handle. He couldn’t force himself to open the door. This was silly. Wellner knew as much. Four of the best security people in the whole Club stood within five feet of him. None of them said a word, but he could imagine what they were thinking. Too scared to walk fifty feet from the car to the elevator. He bet these pros weren’t experiencing this same level of crushing fear. They were too skilled and capable to succumb to panic.

But, the two security guards who had died in this parking garage yesterday had also been perfectly capable. Only yesterday, someone had tried to kill him outside the elevators, not far from here.

Someone obviously sent by the Club’s scheming Vice President, Jules Dunard. He had only survived thanks to the quick thinking of the young woman he had hired solely for her bedroom eyes, full lips, deep line of cleavage, and flat stomach. Also, to a lesser extent, also for her impressive typing speed. The job required basic knowledge of Word and Excel and the ability to type well.

If Naomi the secretary had been as vacuous as he had assumed when he’d offered her the job, Wellner would be dead right now. That was one he was happy to be wrong about, in hindsight.

But how much longer could he be wrong about other things, if he wanted to survive?

In less than nine months, the Review Board elections would happen. It was no secret that Jules wanted Wellner’s job, and also that he had a strong bid for reelection. In his mind, if she thought she couldn’t beat him in a fair election, her next best plan might be to have him assassinated.

In a regular political machine, Jules would have tried to find a skeleton in his past, or engaged in a smear campaign to win the vote. But in their line of work, killing your opponents happened a lot more frequently. Wellner didn’t want to take any chances.

If he did die, the Club’s bylaws would place her immediately into authority as President until the next election, and she could easily mask her involvement in the coup.

Wellner used to feel comfortable with a gun in his hand. He used to know what he was doing. What had changed? When exactly had he turned into a sniveling wuss?

Wellner blew out a few uneven breaths and then pulled the door handle. His foot hesitated in the air, then when it sank to the concrete floor, it felt like a million pounds crashing down. The echo pushed off the concrete walls, as loud as gunshots to his ears.

The security guard turned around, a Latina woman with short and curly hair.

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