Cody froze in place, his finger curled around the Uzi’s trigger, when the double doors of the banquet room burst open and three people emerged at a hurried clip.
He recognized Kamal and he recognized the other two also: Majid Baqir, long time associatein-terror of Kamal, and a smaller figure dwarfed by the two men: blonde-haired, twelve-year-old Laura Parker, being led along the hall against her will by Baqir, who gripped her wrist like a vise.
Cody felt his chest tighten and his throat go dry with a furious rage. He had no intention of letting them harm a hair on Laura Parker’s pretty head.
There could only be one of two reasons why Kamal was taking the girl away from the others: rape or murder… and the terrorists would pass Cody within the next five to seven seconds.
He drew back into the recess, his Uzi in firing position…