She scowled at him. “No talking until you’re spoken to.”
“I’m not a child,” he barked back. “I would like to know what’s going on just as much as you do.”
Hannah glared. “I am trying to save your life, and every time you open your bloody mouth, I lose my focus.” Hannah heard a man coming around the corner. She grabbed him before he could yell and twisted his neck. She looked back at Levi. “Not a fucking word, understood?”
He frowned, clearly wanting to comment, but stayed quiet.
She took them down the hallway and stopped when she heard voices. “I heard some commotion down on the west side.”
“It’s probably nothing.”
“Didn’t sound like nothing.”
Hannah felt Levi press against her arm and internally moaned. Fuck.
“Go check it out.”
She looked down the hallway when her eyes landed on a window. She crawled over and pulled it open. She looked down, seeing they had a ladder. This must be the escape route in an emergency.
“All right.” She turned towards Levi. “You’re first.”
“Why me?”
“Because you’re the target,” she said, practically shoving him outside the window. “And be quiet.”
She watched him shimmy down before she crawled out herself. She shut the window before she climbed down the rungs. She surveyed the area, knowing her car was parked just down the block. She walked, grabbing Levi’s arm, wanting to keep him close.
“You never said how you found me.”
Hannah scowled. “Didn’t I tell you to shut up?”
“You did, but I’m terrible at taking orders.”
Hannah rolled her eyes, walking them forward. “I have my ways. Can we leave it at that?”
Hannah stopped them as a few guards walked the perimeter. She frowned. “Damn it.”
Just then, she heard a yell, “The prisoner escaped! Find him!” The two guards headed to the building, giving them minutes to escape.
“Move,” she said, pushing Levi forward.
“Don’t have to tell me twice.”
They ran to her car at the end of the block. Levi jumped in, and Hannah started it quickly. She felt her heart racing, and her mind was on high alert. They had moments before Levi’s captors would realize they weren’t in the building anymore.
She handed him a knife. “Try to undo your shackles.”
She pulled the car into drive and flew forward.
4
LEVI
Levi had never been so struck by a woman in his entire life. Initially, he thought the feeling came from barely escaping death. Perhaps if any woman had fallen into his lap, he would have felt the same.
But gazing at Hannah as she leaned forward, big, bold eyes darting around for any sign of trouble, he knew that wasn’t the case.
Her body was firm and curvy, and her tight, military-style clothing enhanced her natural vase shape. Emerald green eyes stood out like spotlights on the sea, brighter and prettier than his own. Her raven black hair sat at her neck, disheveled and chaotic, falling in her face now and then where she had to keep whipping it upward or brushing it aside.