Under Pressure [IAD Agency] (Siren Publishing Classic)

into the room. Victor screamed in rage as he saw the two big men, realizing that he was caught. With one last chance to hurt Bella, Victor pointed his gun at Jason.
    Bella screamed as she threw the handsaw at Victor with every ounce of strength that she had left. It struck his arm at the same time he fired his gun.
    Jason and Finn both fired their guns at the same time, emptying their entire clips into Victor’s chest. Victor’s body did a macabre dance backward before falling heavily onto the floor.
    Jason didn’t even spare his body a glance as he rushed over to where Bella was sobbing on the floor. He dropped the gun and fell to his knees before her. He wrapped his arm around her, pulling her to him, his ragged breath blowing against her neck as he groaned against her skin. “Oh God, baby, I’ve got you. My sweet Bella, everything is going to be okay now. I’ve got you. I’m here.”
    “I thought you were dead,” Bella sobbed.
    “Not even death could keep me from coming for you.”
    Neither of them noticed Finn, who had gone over to Victor’s dead body to kick the gun out of his hand. He looked down in disgust, wishing he could kill the bastard a few more times just for the hell of it.
    Bella burrowed into Jason’s chest, trying to get as close to him as possible but immediately pulled back as she noticed his wince.
    Jason wouldn’t let her get far, his right arm banded around her, holding her to him like a vise. She managed to look up at him and gasped as she finally took a good look at him and saw the blood dripping down the side of his face and his left arm hanging limply at his side.
    “You’re bleeding! Oh my God! Jason, we need to get you to a hospital!”
    Jason smiled. “Don’t worry, sweetheart. The cavalry is on its way.”
    “I thought I was the cavalry,” Finn joked as he walked over to them holding Bella’s engagement ring in his hand. He gently slid the ring back onto Bella’s finger.
    She immediately felt better as the ring’s weight settled back into place. Bella looked up at Finn, smiling through her tears. “Thank you.”
    Finn gently squeezed her hand then frowned in concern as he noticed her wrists. “On second thought, we need to get you to the hospital. You’re both in pretty sad shape. Ah, here they come now.”
    Outside sirens blared over the sound of screeching tires. Seconds later a barrage of cops, medics, and IAD agents flooded into the room. Bella closed her eyes as she snuggled into Jason’s embrace, not caring who was there. All that mattered to her in that moment was the man holding her, whispering soothing words in her ear.
    She was safe.
    Her nightmare was finally over.

Chapter Twenty-Five
     
    Lying in bed later that night, Bella trailed her hand lightly over the gauze wrapped around Jason’s chest. She let out a grateful sigh that they were finally home. Nothing pleased her more than lying naked in bed with her man after the day they had.
    After hours spent in the hospital being checked over, they were both finally released. Bella and Jason had given their statements to the police, but Finn had made damn sure that they had kept the questioning short and sweet.
    Besides, no one would miss a sack of shit like Victor Dane, and with the history between him and Bella, it was an open-and-shut case.
    The world was a better place now that he was gone.
    Thanks to the reinforced steel frame of his car, Jason had only suffered two bruised ribs and a broken left arm in the crash. Both Bella and Jason had cuts on their heads from where they had hit the windows, hers on impact, his on the rebound, but otherwise the damage was minimal.
    Bella winced to herself as she thought of the worst of her injuries she had done to herself with the handsaw she had used to free herself.
    “What’s wrong?”
    Jason moved his head so he could look down at her as his right hand held her protectively to him as if some unseen force would try and take her.
    “Nothing, I just feeling kind of stupid that I cut myself,” she answered before placing a small kiss onto his chest. She smiled as the tension left his body and his right hand reached across her back to gently touch the bandages around her wrists.
    “You’re not stupid, love. You were smart. Not many people would have been able to hold it together enough to find a way to free themselves after being tied up like that. You did. Not only did you free yourself, you armed yourself and prepared to fight back. I’m very proud of