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When Day Breaks Maya Banks 17160K 2023-08-31

"We won’t, man," Nathan said softly "I’ve been in your shoes I kno it feels We’ll take care of your girl"

Swanny shot hiratitude and then ran down the street, his tux disheveled and blood-smeared With the way people ducked and ran he el of wrath, bent on the destruction of everything in his line of sight

Mentally he went over those first one all to hell The driver had suffered a direct hit but the shot had coht side, not the left And why the driver? The assassin could have just as easily targeted the backseat and they ht not have survived The car was reinforced, and for the sole purpose of protection, but not many vehicles outside the military could withstand a direct hit froe pounded the paveuns drawn Already in the distance sirens could be heard, and Swanny knew they had one giant clusterfuck on their hands

"Son of a bitch!" Swanny swore as he skidded to a stop

Edge came to an abrupt halt beside him and the two stared down at the discarded AT-4 An older model, not the recoilless version found inin the disturbance in the soil, then snapped his attention back to Edge

"Fuck The French police are going to be all over this You got anything on you to do a check for prints?" Swanny asked

Edge grimly nodded "They don’t call "

He reached into one of the breast pockets of his suit and pulled out a box containing gloves, tape and dusting powder

"You got about one ear," Swanny rew louder

Edge quickly went to work on his exa for prints His gaze drifted to the same area of disturbance Swanny had already observed, and he lifted one eyebrow

"Seems our assle can’t afford ain, this ti small patches of blood likely caused by the recoil He wished the fker had blown himself up, but it was obvious he’d escaped This tiet to Eden It was ti in Sa down this son of a bitch

"Let’s get out of here," Swanny said "I want to get back to Eden She has to be scared out of her e hurried back toward the scene Swanny cursed vividly when he saarm of reporters and news crews all ho an ad the vultures back, but police were questioning all four, which made crowd control next to iot RPG’d right in the middle of Paris

There werequestion after question the policemen’s way

"They want to know if this was a terrorist attack," Edge translated

Swanny lifted an eyebrow at his friend "Since when are you fluent in French?"<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>