“What’s going on?” she asked.
“Your buddies have found us out.”
She couldn’t help but feel thrilled that Corey was there. She sincerely hoped he hadn’t come alone, though. No, she reassured herself, he wouldn’t do that, she trained him better than that.
Frazier pulled her to the last closed door in the room. It opened into a room filled with with monitors, so this it must be their security area. There were apparently cameras positioned outside in many locations around the building, not just over the front door. She watched the monitors along with Frazier and his men.
“There! I see movement over at the third building to the right,” the man sitting at the console said.
“How did they find us? We covered our tracks and made decoys to throw them off.” Frazier glared at his men, then at her. She met his eyes defiantly. “What did you do?”
She shrugged. “Hey, I’ve been tied up the whole time.”
He grabbed her hands and found the cuts on most of her digits. “You left a blood trail and now your Drastan hound dogs have tracked us down!”
“Told you she was trouble,” the thin man groaned from the doorway. He was clutching at his ribs, which were probably broken.
The building suddenly shook as a blaster was fired at the door. “How are the locks holding up?”
“Good so far.”
Frazier pointed at one of his men. “Take her to my bedroom and lock her in.”
The injured man tried to block the doorway. “We should give her to them. It would be distraction enough to allow us long enough to escape.”
“We’re not running, we’re holding our ground. It will be the first test of how well we can hold up against the enemy.”
“This is suicide! Kill the bitch and leave her here for the Drastan assholes so we can get away!”
Frazier calmly raised his gun and shot the thin man in the middle of his forehead. Everyone in the room stared in shock as the thin man fell to the ground.
“Take her to my room!” Frazier ordered, already turning away, completely unconcerned.
Nix was jerked into motion by the rope around her neck and she grimaced as she stumbled over the dead body on the floor. An explosion from outside the building had her jumping. “What was that?”
“We planted mines around the building. We must have gotten one of those bastards!”
Fear filled her at the thought Corey might have been blown up. She had to make her move and escape. She just had to wait for the right moment.
