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Piper paused.
“What fucking lights?” Fury echoed in the gunman’s voice. The lights went out and the darkness exploded around her.
Piper found herself thrown to the floor a breath before the explosive report of a weapon echoed through the room.
Riding close on the sound of the gun’s discharge, shattering glass from the mirror above the dresser began raining down o
n her, biting sharply against the bare flesh of her arms.
She covered her head until the stinging storm ceased, then scrambled across the room on her hands and knees, glass pricking into her palms and knees as the sound of an enraged fight could be heard ahead of her.
She had to find Jed.
“Stay in place, Piper,” Jed yelled out a second before a hard grunt was heard. “Stay where you are, dammit. ”
She pushed herself against the wall as she glared into the darkness, her hand pressing against a large shard of the glass on the floor. Curling her fingers around it, she lifted it, holding it against her just in case she might need it.
A second later a shadow hurled itself toward her as though propelled by some unseen force.
Or Jed’s fist.
The wide body of her assailant—or her would-be killer—slammed into the wall beside her.
Fury surged through Piper at the knowledge of who it was bouncing against the wall. Gripping the glass tighter in her hand, she struck out and buried the arrowed point of the glass into the brute’s back. Or maybe it was his shoulder?
She wasn’t certain which.
The second she slammed it home she tried to move out of his way. The fist was faster than her self-preservation instincts, though. A hard fist in her direction slammed into her shoulder, throwing her off balance and sending her pitching to the floor, her hands scraping against the glass that covered the carpet.
“Dammit, Piper. ” Affectionate frustration filled Jed’s voice and covered that underlying well of complete fury she sensed.
She couldn’t see a damned thing, but suddenly Jed was picking her up and throwing them both to the side as the report of the weapon blasted through the room once again.
An animalistic growl left Jed’s throat as he pushed her halfway beneath the bed, then jumped across it.
The gun went off again as raised voices outside the room could be heard. A high-pitched male scream sounded, and then for the space of a few short seconds, there was unbearable silence.
Piper stared across the bed, desperate to see Jed’s shadow moving, to see some kind of movement that she could attribute to him.
Without him, she was lost.
She felt lost.
Terror squeezed her heart like a furious vise and left her breathless as she glared over the bed, determined to see him alive. She had to see him alive.
Her lips parted to call out to him at the same moment the lights flipped on, shocking her senses.
Piper dropped down and beneath the bed, rolling to peep from beneath the bed skirt at the overly large feet suddenly rushing around the room.
“Dammit, Piper. ” Hard hands shoved beneath the bed and gripped her wrists, and she glimpsed Jed’s bruised face as he pulled her from beneath the bed and dragged her against the hard width of his chest.
Piper pressed one hand against his heart as she pressed her face into his neck, concentrating on the beating of his heart against her palm.
He was alive.
That was all she could think, all she could allow herself to focus on.
He was alive.
