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Quickly, my gaze flits over to the building that I am about to run to. As soon as the security guard fires the first shot, I start to move.
Ducking down to avoid any gun fire, I sprint to the column. Just as I reach it, there’s a spatter of gunfire that bursts through the pillar, missing me by the slightest inch.
I feel a stinging pain in my right bicep and realize that the bullets have sheared away a bit of the marble façade and now it is buried in my flesh. I don’t even give it another thought, though.
All I can think of is Penny. How far she could have run by now?
Gauging that, I slide around the back of the pillar and look out, trying to see where she has gone. The street runs down a way before emptying out into a dead end.
Fuck.
I wonder just where she might be. Hopefully she is made it off the block and is currently running as far from here as possible.
“Come out!” Constantine calls, pulling at my attention. “Tell your man to put his gun down. Slide your gun out to and I will be quick about shooting both of you through the head. Don’t make me wait too long though because I will lose patience.”
I hear the other security guard yell a faint curse back at Constantine.
“Where did Constantine go? Where is Penny’s father, for god’s sake?
Teeth clench, I lean my hand out and show the tip of my gun to the waiting man. It’s the oldest trick in the book, basically to find out where your enemy might be at.
I expect immediate gun fire but instead I get nothing, no reaction.
What could that possibly mean?
I wait, my pulse racing. It’s far too quiet out here.
A spray of gunfire a few seconds later fells the security guard once more. Whether he is actually dead or not I cannot tell, but he’s not moving around or making noise of any kind.
Wiping perspiration from my brow, I glance out at the scene. Again, it seems deserted, as if no one were waiting for me.
I fire valley of shots into the side of the white SUV again, this time aiming for the rear tire. It isn’t until a few seconds later that I hear a faint girlish scream that curdles my blood.
Penny.
Tensing, I get ready to run in the direction of her scream. But I can’t see her, I can’t make heads or tail of where she is.
Constantine finally makes himself known by slithering out of a building across the street, a malicious grin on his face.
“You heard that? Yes. Her father got her.”
I duck behind the column but shout back. “And does her father know what ye intend to do with the baby? Does he know that yer a fucking psychopath?”
A chuckle is that the only response I hear.
“Fuck it.” I swing out, gun held straight out, aiming at the place where Constantine should be. But a second to late, a blurry shape moves just outside my scope of vision.
I turn, finding that Constantine is just behind me. He bleats out a laugh and his bald head shines in the Parisian sunlight.
He aims at me, just a hair more slowly than I draw on him. His reflexes are questionable and that’s his downfall.
I shoot him a straight through one eye, yelling as I do.
He flinches in surprise and then falls over, toppled like a bag of flour. His head makes a sickeningly dull thud as it hits the ground.
I’ll turn around, looking desperately for Penny, but she is nowhere to be seen. Likewise, her father is also absent.
I start running toward the direction that I heard her scream, wishing like hell I knew where she was.
