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Lissette laughed. “You’re as stupid as Ethan. Do you want me to tie them up?”
“Shut up, Lissette,” the man said.
“Just so you know…” Lissette stood next to Shelby, a sneer pulling her lip up one side. “I rammed your shitty little boat. Ethan didn’t have the balls. You were supposed to be dead.”
“And you screwed that up,” the man in black said.
“But we have them now. All you have to do is kill them, and no one will be the wiser. Your boss will still be the fine, upstanding citizen coming to town to start a business that will employ locals and run his product on the side.
“You talk too damn much. I ought to kill you, too.”
“I’m shutting up,” Lissette said. “But you didn’t answer me.” She held up zip ties. “Want me to tie them up?”
He nodded. “Do it.”
Shelby blinked three times at Remy and went limp.
The man holding her struggled to maintain his hold for a few seconds, then gave up and let her fall to the floor.
He straightened and raised his weapon, aiming at Remy.
Remy yanked his towel off and whipped it toward the man’s gun as he pulled the trigger.
Remy kicked the gun toward Shelby and dove at the intruder, plowing into him like a charging bull.
Shelby scrambled on her hands and knees, reaching for the gun.
Once she had the gun in her hand, she rolled to her feet and aimed it at the two men battling to control the intruder’s weapon.
An ear-splitting shriek sounded from behind Shelby. Lissette pounced on Shelby’s back and wrapped an arm around her neck. “No fucking way. You were supposed to die in your shitty boat.” She pounded her fist on Shelby’s head.
Shelby grabbed the arm around her neck and flipped the woman over her head.
Lissette landed on her back and, like a cat, was immediately back on her feet, charging toward Shelby.
Shelby shifted the gun in her hand, waited until the last second, then stepped to the left and slammed the butt of the handgun into the side of Lissette’s head, sending the other woman crashing into the wall.
Lissette slid to the floor and lay still.
Shelby looked from Lissette to the fighting men and back. She grabbed one of the zip ties Lissette had brandished, quickly secured the woman’s wrists behind her back and applied another to her ankles.
Then Shelby spun to help Remy with the man in black.
His ski mask had come off. The man fighting Remy for control of the gun was not Thomas Sanders, the man competing to purchase the boat factory. She didn’t recognize the man and didn’t care. He couldn’t win this fight.
She held the gun steady and waited for her chance.
The two men fell to the floor. Remy held the man’s wrist, pointing the gun away from them.
The man in black bucked and rolled.
Remy held on and rolled with him.
Shelby couldn’t get a clear shot. The men rolled again.
The intruder was on top this time.
Shelby aimed at his back but didn’t fire. If she did, the bullet could go through both men. She couldn’t risk it.
