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No sooner had he hit pavement than strong hands snagged me around the waist and I was slammed against a parked car, a hand pressed against my stomach holding me there.
“Where do you think we are, the fucking O.K. Corral?” Eddie bit out, his face close to mine, and he was pissed. He yanked the Taser out of my hand and then he started talking in rapid-fire Spanish, none of which I could understand, but that might have been a good thing.
Lee materialized next to us.
Lee wasn’t pissed. He was furious. It rolled off him in waves.
“Ally’s in there. I saw her through the window,” I told Lee.
Both Lee and Eddie turned toward door number three. I felt the fury waves recede. They knew I’d put myself in front of a bus, a train or an assassin to save Ally.
The door opened and Ally stood in its frame behind a rickety screen.
“What’s going on?” she asked, looking down at the stunned hit man and then up at us, brows raised and cool as a cucumber.
Gotta love Ally.
There were some muttered oaths. Eddie’s hand came away from my stomach and he moved to the hit man, cuffs out. Lee moved to Ally and I ran back to the car and got Chowleena. By the time Chowleena and I made it in the open front door, Eddie was rolling the cuffed hit man over on his back. When I walked in, I saw Rosie on his stomach on the floor, grunting and moaning, Lee beside him in a half crouch, one foot on the floor, knee bent, the other knee in Rosie’s back. Lee was cuffing him.
Lee hauled Rosie up to his feet while Eddie dragged the hit man into the living room and propped his still stunned body on the couch.
Darius walked in on cat’s feet from somewhere in the back of the house. He looked around at everyone.
“I forgot to bring the dip,” he remarked.
I nearly laughed. That was more like the Darius I knew.
“Darius,” Ally said, finally showing some reaction. She was staring at Darius and her face was wearing a tentative welcoming smile.
“I see you and Indy haven’t changed much,” Darius told Ally.
Everyone looked at everyone else. No comments were made because it was more or less true.
“That was anti-climactic,” Eddie noted after several beats.
I walked up to Rosie and slapped him upside the head.
“Ow!” Rosie shouted at the same time Chowleena barked.
I stared at him then slapped him upside the head again, and Chowleena barked again. She thought we were playing and wanted to be in on the fun.
“You idiot!” I yelled and then smacked him another one.
“Ow! Quit it! She’s hitting me.” He looked at Lee. “Do something, you’re the police!”
Lee simply watched.
“He isn’t the police,” I told Rosie and hit him again.
“Ow!” Rosie looked with desperate eyes to Darius. “You?”
“Me? Police?” Darius actually started laughing. It took years off his face and made him handsome again. If I wasn’t in such a tizzy, I might have stopped to appreciate it.
I smacked Rosie upside the head again and Chowleena barked again.
Rosie looked wildly around and yelled, “You all have handcuffs and guns! How do you have handcuffs and guns unless someone’s the flipping police?”
Instead of hitting Rosie upside the head, I shoved his shoulder.
