Free Agent for a Cause (The Agents for Good) by Guy Stanton III Page A

would be the police most likely come to drag me away. I glanced over my shoulder just to make sure. It wasn’t the police.
    A big black SUV was surging directly towards us. The killer must’ve had a backup team. I turned to the approaching SUV pulling my second pistol free as I did so. Sighting down both pistols in front of me I pointed them like I would my index finger and then I let them begin to talk.
    The windshield shattered and the SUV swerved. As it swerved I shot out the inside tired and that combined with the erratic swerve helped flip the SUV over. It tumbled several times and landed on its roof.
    I had replaced my clips with fresh ones while I watched the carnage of twisting metal and shattered glass unfold. I brought both pistols back up and began unloading them into the remaining live occupants of the mangled SUV. They would never bother my Anna again. I made sure of it.
    I holstered both pistols and turned back to Anna. The hospital was out as an option now. I couldn’t risk Anna being there with only a patrol cop to guard her, while I sat in cuffs at the local precinct. Anybody with the money to hire trained killers like these could bump her off easy in a hospital room. She was safer with me.
    I could hear sirens now. I felt Anna’s pulse. It was stronger and had a steady rhythm to it now. I scooped her up and made my way down an alley and within fifteen minutes I managed to disappear untraceably from the scene. Disappearing was one thing I was extremely good at.
     
    I watched Anna begin to stir on the couch and I could hardly keep my anxiousness for her health at bay. Who would awaken and what would she awaken as?
    She could have easily suffered brain injury or perhaps organ damage from such an experience. Would she even know me? Would she be able to take care of Kevin? I found that it didn’t really matter if any of those things were true, because I would take care of her and Kevin.
    I so desperately wanted those sparkling green eyes to open and recognize me though. It was important. Why was it so important? Because I loved her and I wanted to be remembered by her as the one she loved.
    Even if her memory was gone I would show my love for her by caring for her, even if she had no love for me. She stirred more and my fingers clenched harder together. Her eyes opened and took in the apartment before finding me. Tears started to well out of her eyes and her arms reached for me and I was suddenly on my knees holding her as she sobbed into my neck, her arms holding me tight the whole time.
    She kept calling out my name going in between Tyre and Nicolai and then back again. Either was fine to me. I’d been Tyre for so long it felt strange to hear Nick sounded out again in reference to me. I held her and tried to calm her down.
    “I thought I was dead! I thought I’d never see you again!”
    I saw a look of horror pass across her features and I guessed the root cause of it and held her down as she tried to rise up.
    “Kevin is fine! I found the paperwork for where you left him and since you made me as a contact for him I was able to pick him up. He’s in the other room playing on his iPad. I fed him some of that gluten-free stuff that you bought for dinner. You don’t need to worry about him okay!”
    She relaxed back down to the couch. Her hand came up to touch my face and I grasped it lightly as I kissed her palm. Her eyes were completely naked with earnestness, showering me with unmerited affection.
    “Thank you!” Was all she could say over and over again.
    I could tell by a tightening of her features that she was in pain.
    “Does your head hurt?” She nodded slightly.
    “I don’t want to give you anything for it right now, but perhaps I will a little later. Your body’s been through a lot and I think it’s best to just rely on letting it recover for you on its own for now. I’ll go and get a cold wash cloth.”
    Her eyes followed me as I left and never seemed to leave me even when I was out