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Colton pulled out his phone and Kara brought her gun up and fired her entire clip at the door. She hit someone, heard a grunt and lots of swearing. They moved away and he said, “My phone isn’t sending anything. There’s no service.”
“Give me your phone,” she demanded.
He hesitated, so Kara grabbed it out of his hand and gave him her phone. Matt had given her a backup after she destroyed hers at the park. She then put Colton’s phone in her boot. It didn’t completely fit, but she pulled her jeans down over it.
“This isn’t going to work,” he said.
“We’re buying time. Tell them.”
She didn’t believe that whoever was out there wouldn’t kill them when they got the phone, but Matt would be here any minute. She needed to hold them off until then.
She glanced back to the offices and saw Will under the desk. He looked a little scared and a lot angry. Exactly how she felt.
“Okay!” Colton shouted to the attackers. “How do I know if I slide out my phone you won’t try to kill us?”
Silence.
“Hello?” Colton said.
“Slide your phone to the door,” a voice said.
“How many do you think are out there?” Kara asked. She thought two, and likely one in the rear. “Did you see Conrad?”
How many people were involved in this damn conspiracy? Politicians and staff and the son of an FBI agent? Enough people to hire these assholes to steal Colton’s phone at gunpoint in the middle of the day?
Did the gunfire draw attention to the area? Had someone called the police? Response time had gotten worse over the years. She glanced at her watch. Only four minutes had passed.
“Slide the phone now!” the man shouted. “Do it!”
“He sounds panicked,” Kara said.
As if to emphasize her point, three more bullets hit the table. There were voices outside—two, maybe three.
“Colton Fox, goddammit, you slide me the phone now or I’ll blow your brains out all over the fucking room.”
“Definitely panicked,” Colton said.
“Do it. They have to come in and retrieve it. We’ll at least see who he is. He knows you. Look at him—be careful,” she added quickly.
“It’s coming!” Colton called and slid Kara’s phone as far across the floor as he could without it going out the door. It rested three feet inside.
No one moved.
Staying low, Colton and Kara peered around opposite sides of the conference table and watched.
A man stepped in through the broken security screen and fired two rounds at the table as he bent down and grabbed the phone.
“Doug Meyers? What the fuck!” Colton jumped up.
She knew the name, but didn’t have time to think about why. Colton was going to get himself shot.
Meyers fired at Colton at the same time as Kara pushed him down. They ended up sprawled on the floor without the protection of the table. Kara fired her weapon toward the door as Meyers fled.
“That prick! He’s a cop.”
It was the same man Kara had seen on Tuesday morning when she was looking for Will, the man she thought she recognized.
“Are you hit? Tell me!”
