“What about Tessa? Is she in on this?”
“He didn’t confirm that, but my guess would be yes.”
We were just feet from the door when Alec came out of the corridor to the right. “What the fuck did you do?” Alec hissed, ducking as a shot was fired behind him. I turned and pulled my gun, while shoving Jamie behind me. There were two men at the end of the hall, rushing toward us with their guns drawn. I fired off several shots as Alec pulled Jamie to the exit. When they were clear, I pushed through the door, running to the car door. Alec and Jamie were just getting to the other side. I was just about to open the door when I heard the shout behind me.
“No!” Craig was running full out toward us, his hand held in the air like he was trying to stop us from going into the vehicle. I barely caught sight of Alec pulling Jamie away from the car when the whole back end of the limo exploded, sending flames sky high as we were tossed back from the blast.
I hit the ground hard, my head slamming against the concrete as the brunt of the blast hit me. Everything spun around me, but I knew I didn’t have time to lay there and collect myself. I struggled to my knees, ignoring the drips of red that slid down my face. Alec was struggling to sit up from where he laid over Jamie’s body. Craig raced up to me and pulled me to my feet, shoving me over toward the burning car.
“Get the manhole cover off!”
He ran back over to Jamie and Alec to help them, so I got to work, struggling to pull the cover off. It was heavy as hell, and with my head pounding and my vision swimming, I could barely see enough to get the damn thing up. Craig was there just seconds later, helping me to lift the cover, and then we were lowering Jamie down into the tunnel below. I followed him down, careful on the rungs of the ladder since my balance was shit. Alec was next, and Craig brought up the rear after replacing the cover. I pulled my phone from my purse and flicked on the light to see which way to go.
“Follow me,” Craig said, taking charge of the situation. I stumbled behind him, grasping onto the wall when I almost fell to the ground. Everything was so fuzzy around me that I worried I wasn’t going to be of any use to them.
“Can you walk?” Alec asked, grabbing onto my arm.
“I’m fine,” I gritted out, refusing to be the one that held us up. “How’s Jamie?”
“I’m fine. Not a scratch. Your fiancé saved my life,” he said with a grin.
“Come on,” Craig said impatiently. “We don’t have long before they figure out we weren’t in that car.”
“How did you know?” Alec asked.
“I called the limo driver and asked for the car to be brought around, but it was already there waiting. It just seemed wrong. He didn’t have any instructions to wait in the alley, so he had to be working with Blakely’s security, right?”
We started walking down the tunnel, headed for a safe location to go back up top. But with every step we took, I knew that I wasn’t going to be able to make it to the end. Everything was getting darker and I could barely hear anything at this point. I knew I was just seconds away from passing out.
“Alec-” I murmured right before everything went dark.
CHAPTER TENAlec
I watched Florrie as we walked down the tunnel. I knew that she would never let me go over and carry her. She had too much damn pride, but I could tell that she wasn’t going to last. She was stumbling all over the place and her eyes were all glazed over. She was just moments from passing out. I moved to her quickly, just barely hearing her whisper my name as her body slumped into mine. I hoisted her up into my arms, trying my best to cradle her head against my shoulder. It would be easier to carry her over my shoulder, but I was worried about her head banging around against my back when she had a head injury.
“Is she okay?” Jamie asked worriedly.
“Probably, but there’s nothing we can do down here. I know she hit her head pretty damn hard, but I can’t see the damage in this light. We have to get her up top and then we can see what we need to do.”
“What if she needs a hospital?” he asked urgently. “Shouldn’t we just go back up and take our chances?”
I stopped and turned to him. “No, we need to make sure you’re safe. Florrie would kick my ass if she knew I risked your life to get her to the hospital.”
“But she’s your fiancé,” he said incredulously. “Don’t you care at all-”
“Yes, I fucking care! Do you really think I want to risk her life for yours? If I could, I would make sure that she was taken care of first, but you’re the job, and nothing comes before the job with Florrie. I’m doing what she would want, and what she would want is for us to make sure that we get you to safety first. So, let us do our fucking jobs so that we can take care of her.”
He took a step back and nodded to me. I turned on my heel and followed Craig, trying my best not to keep looking down at Florrie. Yeah, I was fucking worried right now. I had no idea how bad the hit to her head was, but I had to pray that she just had a concussion. She had been up and moving around for a few minutes after the
