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The door slammed behind me as Fox walked out. He must have been in the lobby waiting for me.
Indecision warred inside me. I needed to get out of here fast. There was no reason to drag them into this mess, and the more of them following me, the worse it would be.
“I really don’t want to shoot you,” I told Nicholas. “You saved my life, after all.”
“If you shoot me, you’ll be dead in less than a second. And I still haven’t quite figured you out, so I’d like to keep you alive a little longer.”
“Nick, this is serious. The Russian?—”
Shots fired before I could finish my sentence. I squealed, ducking for cover as bullets pinged over my head against the brick wall. I wasn’t skittish when it came to a gunfight, but this was the freaking Russian mob. I’d heard stories. That was enough to scare me away from them.
Luckily, these crazy people didn’t seem at all concerned that they were being shot at. They all took cover, immediately pulling their own weapons. I considered running to my car and escaping during the mayhem, but I’d already done that once to them. That had to be some kind of bad juju to pull it a second time.
Ducking down behind a dumpster with Fox, I waited for him to take cover before popping up and firing off a few shots. From what I counted, there were two vehicles. One was blocking the mouth of the alley, and the second had blocked me in from the back.
I took cover again, noticing how the dumpster was at an odd angle. “Help me move this!” I said to Fox, moving to the other side. He followed me, bracing his back against it. “Ready? Go!” We moved it a few feet before it was where it needed to be. “Stop!”
Bullets pinged off the dumpster above our heads and Fox ran to the other side. “You opened us up to more gunfire! I thought you had a plan!”
“It wasn’t straight!”
“What?”
“The dumpster! It wasn’t parallel with the wall!”
He rolled his eyes, clearly not understanding my dilemma. “Cover me!” Fox shouted.
I didn’t ask questions, just fired off several shots as he ran along the length of the hotel, away from the action. So much for working with these guys. He just ran away. But I was joined seconds later by FNG. His back slammed against the dumpster as he leapt over to me, grinning like a madman.
“Don’t you just love this stuff?” he shouted.
“I prefer the part where I get in and out without the gunfire!”
“That’s no fun! Cover me!”
“Cover you? You just got here!”
“I’m going in!”
“That’s what Fox said, but he left,” I snapped.
“Yeah, but I’m not going around. See, I figure I’ll be harder to see if I go straight at them.”
“You’re fucking crazy! They’ll hit you right away.”
“Nah. I can’t die. It’s sort of a specialty of mine.”
I grabbed him by the collar as he was about to jump out. “Everyone can die.”
“Not me,” he grinned, then ripped his shirt out of my hands and took off. I turned and fired off the rest of the bullets in my magazine as he raced straight at them, screaming like a banshee. I wasn’t sure how that was going to help him. He was signaling exactly where he was.
I quickly reloaded my weapon, firing again as everyone else did the same. I only had a few bullets left and I moved around the dumpster for a better position. I had one man in my sights and was just about to fire when FNG leapt over the car, firing at the man behind it.
Stunned, I didn’t immediately move, which was a problem when I was grabbed from behind and a knife was thrust against my neck.
“Where are they?” The voice was thickly accented, and I had no doubt Snatch called the mob as soon as I left and told them where to find me.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
