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At the same instant, Rachel hiked up her dress and pulled a Walther PPK out of a thigh holster attached to her garter.
Called it, I thought.
I caught a glimpse of silky black panties –
And she caught me staring.
“REALLY?!” she snapped.
I ignored her indignation and said, “We should run while we have the chance.”
She glanced at the people running all around us and nodded.
I hated using civilians as cover, but the flurry of activity would make it impossible for the shooter to get a bead on us.
Only the very best snipers could hit a target in a panicked crowd – and if our shooter was one of the best, he wouldn’t have missed the first time.
“Hold on,” Rachel said as she pulled off her high heels. “Okay – go.”
We crouched low and ran for the exit, surrounded by the crowd.
I kept my Glock under my jacket, and she hid her gun behind her purse and the shoes she grasped in her free hand.
I waited for another gunshot –
But it never came.
We passed by the stairwell in the lobby. No one seemed to be going into it, so I grabbed Rachel’s arm and pulled her with me through the door. “In here!”
The stairwell was deserted.
I shut the door behind us, then turned –
To find her gun aimed right in my face.
“What the fuck are you doing?” I hissed. “There’s an assassin out there – ”
“And you led them right to me!”
“Or maybe Fausto decided not to let you off the hook after all – ever think of that?”
She scoffed. “The shot hit the table in front of you.”
“Didn’t get me, though, did it? They could have just as easily been aiming at you.”
“Fuckin’ bad shot, then.”
“Didn’t say they weren’t.”
Suddenly, a door banged open several stories above us and echoed in the stairwell. Footsteps clattered down the stairs as a man shouted over a radio, “WHERE IS HE?!”
Rachel had a choice to make, and we both knew it.
She could point the gun at the new arrival, but that would open her up to an attack from me.
She could keep her gun pointed at me and let the new arrival see her with it, potentially inciting more panic and maybe bringing armed guards rushing into the stairwell –
Or she could lower her gun and give up her advantage over me but not be seen by the stranger.
