Lynn gave a single sharp nod, like she accepted the terms. “Fair.”
“Hailstorm,” Elissa said in Colin’s ear, voice suddenly tight. “I hate to interrupt what sounds like a very therapeutic conversation, but I just lost camera four. Northeast blind spot, elevator-side column.”
That’s when Colin saw movement in the shadows.
“Down,now,” he hissed as he pulled Maren to the cold, oily floor. Maren dropped.
Lynn did, too, but slower.
Dekker fired.
The sound of gunfire cracked through the garage, deafening in the concrete cavern.
Lynn jerked backward and slammed into the side of her Lexus.
Colin pushed Maren behind the front end of the SUV, putting his body over hers for the half second it took to make sure she was covered by the engine block, not the useless skin of the door.
“Are you hurt?”
“No.”
Good. She was unhurt and alive.
“Stay here and stay down.” He came up with his weapon already in his hand.
Another shot punched into the SUV above Maren’s head, glass exploding from the passenger window and raining down over the hood.
Maren flinched but didn’t move.
Colin shifted angles, using the SUV for cover, tracking the flash point from the blind spot near the elevator-side column. Dekker was exactly where Elissa had said camera four had gone dark.
Of course he is.
The man stepped out of shadow, weapon up, moving with the calmness of someone who had done this before and expected everyone else to panic.
Colin didn’t panic.
He put two rounds into the column edge where Dekker had been a fraction of a second earlier, forcing him back.
“Hailstorm!” Elissa snapped in his ear. “Watchtower on foot up the stairs. He’s entered level two. Sitrep.”
“Stay wide, Watchtower.” Colin said. “Dekker’s using the elevator column. Carr is hit.”
“Lilac?” Elissa asked.
“Uninjured.”
“Colin,” Maren said from behind him, voice shaking but present. “Lynn’s bleeding. It’s bad.”
Lynn was on the ground beside the Lexus now, one hand pressed uselessly against her upper shoulder. Blood slicked her fingers, too much of it.
Maybe arterial, maybe not. Hard to tell from here.
She was conscious. That was something.
Dekker fired again.
Colin ducked back behind the SUV as the round sparked off concrete behind him.
