You know how most times we spend our whole life preparing how we would react on the day trouble comes, and when it finally arrives we become completely paralyzed? Yes, Ryan would never have believed his body would be as limp as it was in the presence of the assassin he had long expected.

“You… you?” His trembling finger pointed at her.

She tilted her head to the right while her pistol remained steady. “Do you not think you look a little too frightened for the crime boss who put a ...