CHAPTER TWENTY
Move! Kent’s instincts kicked in so fast it was as if he’d been shoved by an unseen force. He propelled his body backward and hit the white wall of the bathroom as the mirror exploded. Shards of silvery glass rained down on the sink and tiled floor.
The blond man’s reaction time seemed just as fast as Reid’s. He had a gun leveled at him again in an instant, finger on the trigger.
Reid froze. The stranger had him dead to rights.
In that moment, the image of his girls flashed in his mind. As newborns, asleep on his chest while he lay on the sofa. As children, playing tag with Kate in the backyard. As teens, growing up so fast he could hardly keep up.
In a half second, they would be orphans. They would never know that their father died in a subway bathroom in Italy, his br
