Page 98 (1/1)
Peri dropped facedown on the pave them at the front of the van This should be easy
"Okay, try it now!" Tony called, and the engine whirred and chunked, and died
Motions slow and even, Peri tried the back door, elated to find it unlocked Idiots She slipped inside, praying the man behind the wheel wouldn’t notice the flush of air On cat feet, she crept up to him, Glock in hand The hood of the van filled the front , and adrenaline sang as she slipped behind the driver and put the unshot to the neck was messy, and you didn’t ever come back fro up froht or not--at least, not enough to risk his life
Peri s to put you down nice and easy If you h your neck instead ’Kay?"
He nodded, grunting when she took one of the syringes and jaain!" Tony called, and she reached over hi "Hell if I know," Peri heard Tony mutter, and she lowered her pistol Chuck was out, pulse strong and steady Heart pounding, she tucked her weapon away, taking Chuck’s hat before grabbing another syringe and boldly getting out the passenger-side door
"I hate coet a new van out--hey!" he ed to yell before she was on hi her front kick
Tony’s eyes went bright in recognition, eager as he carabbed the next blow, spinning around and getting behind hi out frohing, which was just insulting, and she forced hi his arm up behind his back until he stopped
"Ow! Reed," he said, his nose bleeding froht "You are so caught"
"Say good night, Tony"
He yelped when she jae in his ass, but she had his arer to be sure, the van’s bulk and the shadows hiding the, she stood and rolled hi, she waved at Taf and Howard before she gentled the hood down and crossed the street Jack aiting for her at the entrance, and she scooped up Chuck’s hat in passing, putting an extra sassy sway to her hips as she put it on her head in case Opti had tied into the building’s facial recognition caive me room to work," Peri said, and Jack inclined his head
"Nice to see you can do so on your own," he said back, and she strode in, head down as she cleared the front door
The enoreed, and Peri shoved the four-foot-high vase over, snatching up her spare apartment card even before the heavy plaster hit the floor That was easy
The e’s desk looked up at the crash This ," he said into his tay, telling Peri no one knew yet that Hoas up in Suite 606 S, she tucked her card down her blouse "No closer, Reed," he said, dart gun pointed at her, and she threw Chuck’s hat at hile of the desk Her air huffed out as she hit the wall of the desk--
And suddenly--she wasn’t pressed against the desk, but standing over him, three feet from where she’d landed and in the middle of the lobby
Shocked, Peri looked down at the unconscious otten that way or how she’d un was in her hand An e Daainst her boot sheath to find her knife still there Then she looked at her pal into a fist as she listened to the silence and waited for the night Slowly her fist opened as she exhaled She was okay Silas’s patch job had held through a draft--this time "Jack?" she breathed, anxious for an answer Her head hurt as if so to the floor
Gasping, she fell into a defensive crouch when Jack stood up frorim-faced "Move It doesn’t rabbing the heels of the Opti agent and dragging hied "Hell, babe I don’t know You didn’t lose h Thirty seconds?"
"How about that," she said, re able to artificially scrub time from her when she drafted Da her name pulled her to the square of black plastic kicked across the floor It wasn’t her original wire, and figuring it belonged to the man she’d just downed, Peri scooped it up as she went for the stairs "Peri! Are you there?" It was Howard, and a second wash of relief took her
"I’m fine" She put her back to the fire door and leaned into the stairwell, listening to Howard babble as she took a quick look up and down the hall "Howard Relax," she said, interrupting him "I drafted, but I’m okay" Peri opened the door wider, and Jack went before her, taking the stairs two at a ti up now," she said "Get Taf and leave Don’t wait for me I’ve really pissed them off I’ll see you over the border Tell Silas I’le" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true">