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.Joseph checked for the restroom signand left the main room.Locking himself in the tinybathroom, he emptied his bladder and washed his hands.He avoided looking at himself in the tiny mirror over thesink.Last thing he needed was to see naked grief.Heneeded to be one hell of a lot stronger to find the personwho had killed Elisabeth.Noises outside snapped him out of his introspection.Familiar noises.A shot and then shouting.In an instant, allthe self-flagellation and worry disappeared as a rush ofadrenaline replaced the grief.Opening the door a crack, he looked out to the cafébeyond.Two men, dressed in black and wearing bandanas,one waving a gun like it was a July Fourth flag.He couldn'tsee if the safety was off, but the single shot he had heardimplied it was and that the guy waving the gun aroundwasn't afraid to use it.One man was at the door, the other atthe till.The shot hadn't hit the waitress; she was standingwith terror in her eyes behind the counter.The crazed andcracked glass mirror behind the till showed the bullet's finalresting place.Quietly he pulled his Sig out of the back ofhis jeans then, in the same instant, replaced it.This wasn'tthe time for a freaking gunfight in downtown Albany.This68The Only Easy Day RJ Scottwas time for something else entirely.Ears tuned to the slightest move, with his handsheld out in front of him in a gesture of innocence, heentered the dining room.The man at the door was startled,and he was the one with the gun.But he was clearly nothigh on anything, and his gaze was focused and intense.Heclearly knew shit about how you handled a gun, but Josephknew for a fact he couldn't underestimate an adversary thatwas armed.It didn't matter if it was an enemy combatant ora child protecting his family, this was no different from thetheater he had been in this time last week.Three.He walked slowly to the guy at the door,stumbling over a chair and righting it with a drunken grin.The armed man blinked at him, and the gun droppedslightly.Joseph had been judged and dismissed as nothreat.Two.The guy at the door was now unconscious onthe floor from a fist to his face, his gun thrown into the air.It tumbled in a crazy arc, and as it fell to earth, Josephcaught it in a quick snatch from the air.One.Rolling to his feet, Joseph took two steps andvaulted the counter, catching the other perp with aroundhouse flying kick.It was over in seconds.He dragged the two69The Only Easy Day RJ Scottunconscious intruders into the bathroom, snapped theinternal lock, and wedged the door from outside.Thewaitress broke out of her fear and was on the phoneimmediately to call the cops.He left before they arrived.There were no cameras in the café, nothing to hold him fora chat about what had happened.He didn't have time forthat.He'd needed that rush of adrenaline.He wasn'tgoing to wallow the silent and deadly SEAL was back.Itwas time to see where this link to Morgan Drake took him.70The Only Easy Day RJ ScottCHAPTER 7Joseph scoped the address Fuentes had sent him.Hecircled it three times.The building really was nothing morethan a single detached house in a row of similar post-WorldWar Two homes.Brick-built, it had both front and rearentrances, and there was no sign of visible security.Josephdidn't underestimate what he could see, and until Fuentespulled up more information on this Sanctuary thing, he wassticking to the shadows as he gauged the best place foringress.A room on the first floor, on the opposite side ofthe large harvest moon, had a window ajar.Shimmying upa red oak, he cracked the window wider and crept in.Landing nimbly on thick carpet, he immediately pulled hisweapon.In mere seconds he had analyzed every inch of theroom he could see in the dark, and in only a few more, hewas out in the corridor, assessing the house plan.The threefloors seemed quiet.There was evidence of people livinghere, but nothing to indicate children, thank God.One hellof a fancy kitchen that smelled faintly of Chinese takeoutcovered most of the ground floor, and there was no sign ofovert security.He walked the house a floor at a time, withhis Sig held in front and preceding him into each room.Atthe top of the last flight of stairs, he found what he was71The Only Easy Day RJ Scottlooking for.The door was ajar, and he pushed it open far enoughto slide into the room.This bedroom was filled withmoonlight coming through open drapes, and the figure inthe bed was clearly asleep.Taking a single step closer, hepointed his weapon directly at the huddled figure under thesheets."Morgan Drake?" he said firmly.The guy didn'tmove, and Joseph took another step and poked with themuzzle of his gun at the sheets [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]