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My voice sounded off, but I whispered, “What do you want from me?”
“I have the warrant.” He grinned and looked evil. Like he was enjoying this. Except...his neck pulsed and his hand had practically crumpled the paper. “Took it right off the computer before Elena saw it. You and I are getting the drive from the data center and then this will all be over.”
“They’ll figure it out. They’ll know you took it. They’ll find you.”
“Doesn’t matter. I have an escape plan as soon as I get these files. They have no idea what’s in those files. They might suspect, but they don’t know, and as long as they never know, that’s all that really matters. Now, Violet. Walk. And if you try anything, you’re dead. Don’t test me.”
40
After the glass broke in the main door, Kara and Colton went into action. Together, they pushed the large conference table on its side. A hand reached inside the new opening and tried to unlock the door but couldn’t because the lock required a key on both sides, and the key was in Will’s pocket. Thank God there were security bars on the door, but they wouldn’t hold for long.
Kara ordered Will to secure the back door. It was a fire door and would be near impossible to break down, but Kara assumed that someone would be waiting for them to escape that way.
Will ran into the back office where the door was and made sure it was locked, then pushed a desk against it.
“Stay low!” she commanded, and Will dropped to the floor, behind the half wall. She didn’t like that the top half was all glass, but he was safer there.
Colton pulled out his Glock and fired three shots at the intruder, then they both squatted behind the table.
The hand disappeared and there were voices, but Kara couldn’t hear what they were saying. She drew her SIG and said, “We’re sitting ducks here.”
“We just need to hold them off. Costa is on the way, right? We just need a little time.”
“I have two guns, twenty-eight bullets between them. You?”
“Now I have fourteen.”
“You’re only carrying one gun?”
“I have a knife.”
“So do I, but I don’t want this to come down to hand-to-hand combat.”
A series of bullets hit the table and Kara made herself as small as possible. Then they stopped and a male voice shouted, “Fox! All we want is your phone with the pictures. You can walk away.”
Colton called out, “Won’t do you any good, I already sent everything to my boss.”
“I know that’s not true,” the voice said.
Who is that? Kara mouthed.
Colton shrugged.
“You don’t have the only copies, do you?”
“No, but... I think...” His voice trailed off.
“Talk!”
“Yesterday morning I was at the Sunflower main office and took pictures of people I didn’t recognize. I don’t know how they could possibly know I was there.”
“But Peter knew—he knew you were still out in the field yesterday, before we met here. He must have suspected something.”
“Aw, shit.”
“Send them now. Send them to me, send them to Matt, to everyone. There’s something important there and—”
More gunfire made Kara yelp. Someone started hammering at the security screen on the door. It was only a matter of time before they got in. Kara looked to Colton. “I’ll cover you, just get those photos out in the wild right now.”
