Page 82 of Craved By the Mountain Man

“Hannah.”

“How many?”

A door opens behind him.

One of the three men steps out.

Another appears farther down.

The third comes around the side of the building.

Enough.

I start moving.

Declan sees me.

His face goes white.

This time the fear is real.

“What the fuck?”

Everything breaks at once.

One of the men reaches inside his jacket.

Kaden’s people move from the other side of the lot.

Another cuts toward Hannah.

Declan grabs her arm.

Wrong move.

I’m already running.

Hannah reacts first.

She turns into the grip, drops her weight, and twists toward his thumb.

Declan curses.

She tears free and drives her elbow into his ribs.

He folds.

“Move!”

She runs straight toward me.

I catch her and put her behind me.

One of Kaden’s guys takes the first man coming from the motel while the other intercepts the second before he gets anywhere near Hannah.

The third comes at me.

I meet him halfway and put him on the pavement hard enough that he doesn’t get back up.