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"I didn’t hear anything Are you sure it worked?"
She squinted at the icon "It says Test so maybe this isn’t how you’re supposed to set it off Go stand near the door and listen Maybe you’ll be able to hear it over there"
Mara walked over to the door and pressed her ear right up against the wall "Okay, hang on"
Kay clicked the button and looked at Mara expectantly
"Nothing Try again"
Kayat just in time to see Eli duck out of view
"I lost hies until she found Eli again He was in the dining rooh to another screen The otherdown the hallway Then he turned around and went the other way Her skin chilled He was going to enter the dining roo?"
Kay shook her head and pulled up theto find Eli I have to do so Maybe I should cut on the sprinkler systeasped
Kay looked up to see the other man sneak up behind Eli with his arm raised Eli turned, a look of shock on his face, then fell to the ground
Her heart in her throat, she started clicking every icon she could
A SCREECHING ALARM blared above their heads and they both covered their ears Eli used the distraction to run out of the rooainst the wall and clutched his arrazed him It was just a flesh wound The thick leather of his coat had taken the worst of it The alarain
"What the hell is that sound?" Justice screarateful for the erratic noise because it was the only way he’d known that Kay was safe Unless soet on his laptop, the only other way to control the systeh the computer in the panic roo with the security systeht It sounded like she was running a system test Even if she didn’t kno to operate the security systeh distraction for hiet him closer to the back doors" Tank’s voice startled hiot rounds that go through glass, but it’ll be easier if I have a clear shot"
Eli ran into the kitchen and behind the island If he was going to get Justice in position, he’d have to back himself into a section of the kitchen behind the counter and hope he followed
It was a risk It would leave him vulnerable because he’d have the oven at his back, so he’d have to take a leap of faith and trust that his guys would co to let her live," Justice htful He sounded close Eli peered around the island, taking note of the other man’s position at the entrance to the kitchen He stood slowly, his weapon on Justice the entire tiirl Kaylee Such a pretty naue over his lips "I’ve never been into thick girls like you are, but I’ to see the error of htened around his weapon "You’re going to stay the hell away frohed "You’re not in the position to tellto do That was always your problem, you know You never knehen to accept that you’d been beaten One of the h, but it’s also what s you couldn’t have"