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on him. "She'll be okay."
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Jake went to the window, stared out, a frown on his face.
No, no; going out to discuss things with them would not help.
"They want to kill me, magic. Not big on words, these
guys. Go sit in the bathtub."
"I don't want them to kill you." Jake shivered, stepped
away. "God, they're ugly. How can they do what you do and
be so different from you? I hate crowds."
"I'm just special." He slapped that fine butt. "Go, get in the
tub." He would handle the ugly.
"In the tub." Jake went, fingers trailing over his arm.
"Okay."
"The bathroom doesn't have windows, the tub is porcelain-
covered cast iron." He grabbed Jake and gave the man a
hard, brief kiss. "If I don't have to worry about you, I can do
my job better."
"Just do your job."
Keye nodded, glad that he had more time than that first
vision had shown him. By the time the vehicle with the would-
be assassins in it flew around the bend, he had sweats on,
and both of his hand weapons were on his person.
The first round of bullets came from the passenger's side
as the truck pulled up. Not particularly delicate, that. Not
particularly effective, either. He wasn't exactly a careless drug
dealer who could be taken out by a drive-by. He took out the
front tire of the truck with his first shot.
The truck went spinning, the front end slamming into
Jake's car. Huh. Looked like Jake was right. Imagine that.
He took aim, took out the driver, then the front-seat
passenger. Two down, one to go. The last one rolled out of
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the car and did some sort of Jackie Chan run and roll and leap
toward the house.
Wow. Seriously? Where did these assholes get hired? Stunt
Men R Us?
He shook his head, holding his position. There was no way
anyone was going to get past his position, so he just had to
be patient.
One of the windows blew out, and he groaned. Great.
Glass. There went his deposit. Still, at least he could judge
the angle of attack and get ready. Patience was his strong
suit. Let the guy come to him.
And come the asshole did, although it was through too
many windows to be one guy, and one of those windows was
in the back near Jake.
Fuck. Fuck a goddamn duck. There were only supposed to
be three. He took out the guy from the front, then headed to
the back of the cabin.
He heard Jake, the gasp half surprised, half pissed off.
Shit some more. Kaye put on a burst of speed, sliding
toward the bathroom, coming in low.
"....leave me alone. I am not either bait and if you don't
stop I'll tell everyone you still wet the bed!"
The guy staggered back from Jake, who was hitting him
with a toilet plunger. Keye laughed, the sound embarrassingly
like a braying donkey.
The guy turned, drew down on him, and the wood handle
of the plunger came down on the man's wrist. Hard. "I. Said.
NO!"
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Keye broke off laughing as well as he could and grabbed
the gun from the guy as it fell. Then he dragged the fool out
of the bathroom. "How many more?"
"Fuck you."
"Two, but you shot one. The other one is outside waiting to
shoot us. They're Frank's friends and they came on
motorcycles." Jake sighed, hit the guy with the plunger again.
"And if you bite him, he'll hurt you, Dwayne, so don't."
Keye wanted to hurt the guy, anyway. "Is that an accurate
count this time, magic?"
"As far as he knows." Jake looked a little shocky. "I can
only know what they know, and Frank didn't know they were
coming."
"I mean right now." He just needed to know if there were
any more about to storm the house. Hang in there, magic.
I will.
Jesus. He heard that.
Jake nodded. "The one outside with a rifle. His name is
Sam and he hits his girlfriend. She's sleeping with Dwayne
here, too. Tawdry."
"Thanks, babe. Get me the tie off that robe." He wanted to
shoot the guy, but he figured he'd use the one they had to
draw out the bad guy who was still out there.
"Okay." Jake was holding together just barely, but he was
holding on.
Keye tied the guy up. "Stay away from the windows,
magic. I need to go draw fire."
"Don't draw it to you."
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"Nope. To him, is all." He grinned and yanked the bound
asshole all the way out of the bathroom. He'd start shoving
the guy in front of windows.
"Fuck you, man. Let me go, asshole."
This was what happened when you hired amateurs. They
made stupid mistakes. The guy tried to fight him, and Keye
clubbed the bastard against the side of his head with a closed
fist. Enough of this bullshit. These assholes come in, worry his
magic man, break windows. He popped the unconscious man
in the next window over.
"Here, kitty. Come get him."
* * * *
Jake turned the water hotter, trying to scald off his skin.
He just. He had to go. He had to go away from here. This was
bad. This was bad and somehow he was involved and all he'd
wanted was money. He wasn't... this wasn't him. This whole
violence and scary and people with guns thing. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]