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“Don’t try to be a hero if he shoots your lock and co Take your best shot I don’t want to lose an officer tonight”

“And if he knocks?”

“Don’t do anything unless he tries to breach We’ll nab hi now Stay frosty”

The phone went quiet Kelly waited, her gaze glued to the ed and harsh in the quiet of her apart his security syste last night and caught her asleep

It had been ten minutes Where was Chandler? Maybe he didn’t know her unit number Had her fellow officers already nabbed hi to the woman who’d let him inside? Would he have followed her and killed her so she couldn’t identify him?

No, that ic to it

The elevator doors slid open Kelly tensed

Chandler exited still carrying the flowers, a prop totoward her door, he reached into the arrangement and extracted a weapon With a silencer attached He dropped the bouquet

Kelly bit her lip This was it What would he do? Where was backup?

She raised her oeapon, held it steady in a two-handed grip and aimed it at her front door

She glanced to the monitor Chandler leaned forward and peered in the safety peephole He nodded, raised the gun and fired at her lock

He kicked the door open, unshot Chandler entered fast, holding his weapon in one hand

“Freeze Police,” Kelly shouted

Chandler swung his gun toward her

Take your best shot Kelly squeezed the trigger She aiht

She hit Chandler in the right chest, and he went down

She heard a crash in the hallway but didn’ton her carpet

Unifor shields appeared in her doorway