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“No,” I said, gritting my teeth. “I was working for Alistair.”
She looked like she might be sick again.
“And now I’m going to kill him,” I snarled as I got up from the floor.
“You can’t,” she said in a panicked voice.
I stared at her in fury. “Why?! Because you love him?!”
“No, you idiot,” she seethed. “If you kill the Director of Operations of MI6, you’ll be shot on sight. Even if you escape, you’ll be classified as a terrorist. Your life will be worth nothing. They’ll hunt you down like a dog and kill you in the street.”
Her face softened, and her voice hitched as she tried to hold back her tears.
“…and I just got you back… I can’t lose you again…”
All the rage inside me suddenly melted when I saw her pain.
I moved towards her. “Rachel…”
That’s when the bullet shattered the hotel room window, ripped a hole through the curtain, and punched a hole in the wall just inches from my head.
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“GET DOWN!” I screamed as I dashed towards Rachel –
But she dove off the bed before I could reach her.
I rolled onto the ground next to her and we hid behind the bed.
“Again?!” she snarled, sounding more put out than frightened.
“Thermal scope?” I said like I was asking for her professional opinion.
There were heat-imaging scopes that could ‘see’ body heat and allow the shooter to target people in otherwise total darkness. That would’ve been the only way the sniper could aim at me through the curtains.
But thermal scopes had their issues – like ‘seeing’ through glass. It played havoc with their accuracy.
Rachel was undoubtedly thinking of that because she said, “It would explain how bad a shot he is.”
“Well, at least he’s persistent,” I muttered with dark humor.
“What if there’s more than one?”
“Then we’re in luck – we got a whole team of bad shooters.”
“Probably just the one guy, then,” she mused.
“Probably. I guess we should’ve gone hunting after the restaurant.”
She smirked. “I don’t know about you, but I preferred having sex.”
I laughed. “I agree.”
“No reason we can’t go hunting now,” she purred.
I gave her a wry grin. “Let’s.”
We had shed our clothes as soon as we walked into the room, so it was fairly easy to retrieve them; they were all by the door.
