Red Noon by Capri Montgomery Read Free Book Online Page B

been hell and he could tell it from the bruises on her body and face to the look of desperation and defeat in her eyes. The belt on the floor made him angrier than he was before. If the bastard were still alive he would go up and empty his gun in the brute himself.
    “We can’t take her out there yet,” Javier stopped his path. “Somebody tipped off the media and there is already a van with live feed, not to mention a younger crowd with their cell phones ready to get coverage. Let me get a blanket from the on standby EMT’s and drape it over her before you go out.”
    Takahiro nodded and listened as Javier put the call out over the radio. He waited as a deputy walked in the blanket.
    “Oh hell,” the young man said. The anger in those onyx eyes told Takahiro he, too, was just as broken over the sight of her as his men were. Out of all the rescues they had done this one seemed to hurt the most. It wasn’t that they hadn’t seen seriously mucked up situations before, but this…she looked so innocent, so small, so in need of help and so badly damaged that they all hurt for her.
    “Did you at least get them?” The black as night deputy asked.
    “Just one. The other one isn’t here,” Takahiro told him.
    “I would kill the bastard myself for this,” the deputy snarled. “The media is building like they were waiting just down the street. Sadly, they probably were. I think somebody got a tip off from a scanner and maybe one of the neighbors.”
    “Human shield,” Takahiro said to his men because they all knew what it meant. They would flank him and block out some of the view. Being a solid five ten himself meant he was tall enough for the media to get a view, but the fact that a few of the men were six footers and just under, a couple just over and the rest smaller than him or just at his height meant they could pack it up a little and block out the view.
    “Human shield?”
    “They’re going to flank me so I can get her out with some dignity.”
    “We got ya’,” he said. “Officers,” he said into his communication device. “Block the view please?”
    Takahiro was surprised when the deputy gave him the clear and he walked out, seeing every officer that wasn’t holding the crowd back either sheltering the entry to the ambulance or blocking the view from the front. When he walked out they all started to walk with him, keeping him and his team sheltered like a brick wall blocked out the storm.  The media could miss the ravenous blood fest tonight because they weren’t getting this lady at her worst and plastering her hell for everybody in the world to see, and for her to have to see in every paper, on every news station and on every online venue imaginable. No, she would not have hell haunt her…although he was sure it would haunt her mentally. There was no possible way anybody could forget a beating like that.
    He got her to and in the ambulance without getting her face seen. He had the clear to ride with them seeing as though it was his body blocking the door view when it closed and the fact that the other guy was still out there. They had a full guarded tag, SWAT included and another human shield to get her into the emergency room without media personnel getting a shot of her brutalized body.
    Takahiro had taken that ride down to the newly built hospital, the high class, very sophisticated, best of the best in the area hospital, and watched her eyes peer up at his masked face. He saw thanks in those eyes, but he still saw the fear. He had put his hand over hers and she had clutched his with her other hand as tears started to stream down her cheeks. She couldn’t see his face but he had to keep it hidden getting her out of the ambulance or the media would definitely run with his face and he and the team didn’t need that. Thankfully the mask wasn’t making her remember the man who clocked her in the back of the head with his gun.
    When they got her in the hospital he was set to let her go. He