BANG!
The sound of the office door slamming shut had barely faded before the "timid insurance clerk" transformed into a strike of lightning. Before Hunter Bailey could even press the alarm button, her foot lashed out in a blur of black-and-white fabric. The impact was like a sledgehammer hitting a sack of flour. Hunter was sent flying backward, his chair flipping over as he crashed into the floor, the wind driven from his lungs in a sharp, pathetic wheeze.
CRASH!
The heavy mahogany double doors erupted inward. The elite bodyguards who had been stationed in the hallway, hand-picked from the The Five Wardens, charged into the room like a pack of starved wolves. Their hands were already reaching for their concealed weapons, their faces twisted in a mixture of professional shock and murdero
