Free Forever Yours, Sir by Laylah Roberts

forward.
    “Just give me five minutes alone with him,” Sheryl said. “He’ll wish he’d never been born.”
    “Oh, I think he pretty much does already,” Cady said as Josh stepped toward Leonard. He put his gun in his holster before reaching for his cuffs. Leonard sprung forward, catching them all by surprise. Josh fell to the floor with the weasel on top of him.
    “Josh!” C ady yelled. Josh let out a grunt of pain before Leonard jumped to his feet and headed toward the open window.
    “He’s going out the fire escape!” Sheryl yelled.
    Cady fell to her knees beside Josh, horror filling her at the blood welling up from his chest.
    “Oh my God.” She started shaking, old memories assaulting her. Rusty with his chest covered in blood, bleeding to death right in front of her as she’d tried in vain to save him.
    “Cady, I’m fine! Cady! Snap out of it. It’s just a bit of glass. Get Hunter on the phone, get him here now. I’m going after that bastard.”
    Josh jumped to his feet and headed toward the window. Cady snapped back into the present.
    “Stay here,” he yelled as he moved back onto the fire escape.
    Like hell. No way was she letting another partner down. She opened her phone and called Hunter. It was a company phone and all of their phone numbers were entered into it.
    “Cady. What’s up?” Hunter replied.
    “We found Doran. Josh is in pursuit. Josh is injured, he was stabbed in the shoulder with some glass,” she said quickly as she raced down the fire escape. It creaked under her weight, but she figured if it taken Leonard and Josh’s weight it could take hers.
    “Where are you?”
    She quickly told him.
    “Okay, wait in the apartment. We’re twenty away.”
    She spotted Josh running around the corner of the building next door.
    “Cady, did you hear me?” Hunter snapped. “Stay there.”
    “Can’t. Josh is injured. I’ve got to back him up.” She hung up, knowing Hunter was going to be furious. But honestly, he expected her to wait?
    Just as she reached the bottom of the stairs, they gave way beneath her. She fell to the ground with a thump, groaning loudly. Her ankle throbbed as she stood, but she pushed the pain away.
    Ignore it. Just keep going.
    She ran down the alley to where she’d seen Josh disappear. Pausing at the end of that alley she was hit with the choice of heading left or right. Damn it, this place was a maze. She grabbed her ringing phone, setting it to silent. Hunter.
    Then she spotted a splash of red on the ground. Blood.
    Cursing silently, she raced down the alley to her right.
     
    ***
     
    Hunter swore as he got Cady’s voicemail again. He was going to kill her. How dare she ignore a direct order and then refuse to answer his calls.
    “Can’t you go any faster?” he snapped at Jaron.
    Jaron glanced over at him tensely. “Going as fast as I can, Hunter.”
    Hunter drummed his fingers against his thigh. He hadn’t expected this. By all accounts Doran was a pencil-pushing geek. Hunter had expected him to be long gone and even if they had found him, he’d figured he’d go down easy.
    “We’re five minutes away,” Jaron said tensely.
    Hunter knew he was acting like an ass, but he couldn’t help it.
    He was fucking terrified.
     
    ***
     
    Cady came to a sudden stop, her heart skipping.
    Fuck!
    Josh had Leonard. That was the good part.
    The bad part was the gun aimed at Josh’s head. On the other end was a young kid, about nineteen.
    What the hell was the kid doing?
    Josh was straddling a naked Leonard who was face down on the ground. The kid had obviously snuck up and caught Josh by surprise.
    Luckily for Cady, the kid was half-turned away from her and all his attention was centered on Josh. She pulled out her gun and slowly crept up behind him.
    “Put your hands on your head than stand up real slow like,” the youth ordered.
    “How am I supposed to stand if my hands are behind my head?” Josh asked, a hint of frustration in his voice. “I’ll