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“Yes,” Gavin ad once ot rid of you, and your case against the organization falls apart without your deposition or testimony, there’ll be a nice promotion in it for me”
“You’re crazy to think that’s how things will play out,” Theodore said, though his voice sounded weak and defeated
Gavin swung the barrel of his gun toward the older man, a cruel smile on his lips, and Arabella rabbed Gavin’s attention “Unfortunately, you won’t be around to see what happens or ratanyt
hing to chance”
Clearly irritated now, Gavin clenched his jaw “So, who should be first to die? Such a hard decision” He lanced at Maddux, a ain, maybe not You deserve to suffer, Wilder, and what’s worse than watching soht before your eyes?”
A renewed rage pu, to the night he’d set the grease fire in his parents’ diner and Maddux had witnessed his parents’ deaths It had been the singlehe’d experienced in his life, and he knew that he wouldn’t survive the same fate with Arabella
Maddux wasn’t going to take any chances with her life Done with this fucker and his ames, he e, he rushed toward the other man The surprise attack startled Gavin, and just as Maddux intended, the other er
Maddux heard Arabella scream his name as an explosion of sound echoed in the rooht shoulder seconds before he tackled Gavin to the floor He knew he’d been hit, but the adrenaline surging through his body rasp The other th and weight as he secured his arht around Gavin’s neck in a choke hold until he finally passed out and went limp
“Maddux,” Arabella said, a sob catching in her throat as she dropped to the floor next to hih her hands and feet were still secured with the plastic ties “Oh, my God, you’ve been shot!”
Rolling to his knees, he glanced down at the wet, red stain on his white shirt near his upper shoulder and winced at the agonizing, throbbing ache that was nowblood, which meant a main artery hadn’t been severed, the wound wasn’t life-threatening, and once he got ood as neith a few stitches to add to the scars along his neck
“It’s just a flesh wound I’ll be fine,” Maddux assured her, and knowing he only had a few rabbed a few of the zip ties left on the table and secured the other man’s hands and feet
“You could have been killed,” she said, the raw e him to stop and focus his attention on her
He needed to get a knife from the kitchen to cut her out of the restraints, but the tears strea down her face athered her into his ar to be okay He held her tight as she buried her face against his neck, rateful that she’d been spared when Gavin clearly intended to kill her first
She finally lifted her head and looked into his eyes, hers still da happened to you, I’d be devastated”
God, he understood, because he felt the same way