Mitch hadn’t counted on Zep showing up. God, he was perfectly still. Please let him be alive. Remy couldn’t come home after all this time only to lose his brother. He couldn’t.

She was still, so still she could feel how her heart pounded. “I’ll go with you. I’ll go quietly. It’s okay. Whatever you need, I’ll do it.”

She would do absolutely anything to make sure that ambulance got here and was allowed to work on Zep.

“We’re going to back out of here real easy,” Jones said. “I see either one of you move and my friend is going to kill her.”

“Lisa, you listen to me,” Remy said, his eyes focused on her. “You survive and I will come for you. Do you understand me? And if my friend is here, now would be an excellent time because I have a straight shot to the outside. That door isn’t locked yet.”

Because Zep hadn’t done the final walk-through of the marina.

Something pinged through the air and then she felt the body behind her go completely stiff and then perfectly soft.

Chaos erupted as Porter fell back, his arms loosening and setting her free. Remy tackled her. All the breath left her body as she hit the hardwoods. She glanced to her left and saw what she hadn’t before. Porter was on the floor, a neat hole through his forehead.

“Stay down,” Remy said. “I don’t know where the other guy went and I have to get you out of here.”

“But Zep,” she protested. They couldn’t leave Zep behind. Was he even alive?

“Armie’s got him.” Remy’s voice was solid but she could still hear the emotion. “I have to take care of you, love. I have to get you out of here. Can you run with me?”

She wasn’t sure she could move at all. The space had gone deadly quiet, eerily quiet, and then she heard the sound of a low groan.

Zep was still with them, but she had no idea how long that would last. What would happen if they got taken hostage? And who had fired at the man who’d had her in his clutches? It hadn’t been Remy. She’d been watching Remy, and Armie had been on the ground beside her, trying to help Zep.

“Lisa?” His voice was insistent.

“Yes, I can run.” It was time to do anything he asked of her. He was the expert here. He’d been a SEAL and a bodyguard. She was an accountant and this was only her second time in the line of fire. She hadn’t fared spectacularly well the first time. “Where are we going?”

“Hold on to me. Hold on tight.” Remy wrapped his arms around her and started to twist and turn them toward the back of the house where they could get to the marina.