Page 104 of When He Fights
“Not like the shot killed her,” Logan taunted as his voice carried easily to Ana.“That’s what bulletproof vests are for, am I right, Dr.Marlowe?To keep you alive when you’re shot.But Icankill you.I can aim for your head, where you have no protection from a bullet.And I will, unless Anastasia gets her ass inside.Now.”
Was Kane already in the house?
Ana climbed the first step.
Another bullet exploded from the house.It hit the ground near Emerson.
“Don’t move, Dr.Marlowe!The invitation wasn’t for you!It was just for Anastasia!”
Ana climbed the second step.“Send Zuri out, and I’ll come in with you.”
He smiled even as most of his body remained concealed behind the partially open door.“Why in the hell would I want to do that?”
“Because Zuri hasn’t done anything to you.”Emerson had said Logan was focused on the eye-for-an-eye mentality of revenge.
But then again, Emerson hadn’t done anything to Logan, and he just fired at her.A shot that he’d deliberately aimed to hit the bulletproof vest.And the second bullet had hit the ground near Emerson.
He hadn’t killed Emerson.
Zuri appeared in the doorway.Logan had shoved her forward.Tears tracked down Zuri’s cheeks.“Ana?”
Ana rushed up the last two steps.She hurtled toward her friend.Put her arms around Zuri and held tight.
“Say goodbye, Anastasia,” Logan ordered her.
Her gaze jumped to him.A shadowy form behind Zuri.He still had his gun, and it was aimed right at the back of Zuri’s head.
She choked down her fear.“Goodbye, Zuri.”
“Ana?”Zuri’s nails bit into her.
“Run to the cops, Zuri.Go, now.”She shoved Zuri.Felt her friend’s nails tear into her arm, but then Ana positioned herself right in front of Logan.Between Logan and Zuri.
Zuri would get away.Her pounding footsteps told Ana that she was escaping.
And as for Ana…
Logan reached out.Curled his left hand around her neck.He hauled her into the house.Slammed the door shut behind her.
“My sweet, sweet Anastasia.”His handsome face twisted with his fury as the fingers of his left hand tightened around her throat.“I’ve missed you, you lying bitch.”
“Kane,I know you can hear me.”Gray eased out a hard breath.“Ana is in the house, and your ass better be in there, too.”He’d wanted to go in the back of the home himself, but Kane had insisted on doing the job.
Tyler—hell, Gray knew that Tyler was supposed to be watching Kane’s six.Were they both in the house?They’d better be.
“Zuri is secure.”Gray could see her with the cops.The cops also had Emerson.The bastard shot Emerson.“Logan is armed with a gun, but I’m thinking you know that.”His teeth snapped together.“Suspect is armed and dangerous.Defend yourself.”
As if he didn’t already know what Kane intended…Why Kane had been so adamant that he had to go into the house…
Logan Catalano is a dead man.
Gray just didn’t want the guy to drag anyone else down with him on his way to the grave.
Ana shouldn’t have beenin the house.
She should never have left Gray’s side.
But she was there, and Kane didn’t need Gray’s voice in his ear telling him that fact.He could see her.Logan had her pinned between his body and the closed, front door.The bastard had a gun to Ana’s side.
