Pucking the Captain
He just stared at me, his dark, dead eyes calculating the distance between my hand and the iron grate, and for a terrifying, suffocating second, I thought he was going to pull the trigger anyway.
He was a professional, a man who killed for a living, and he probably figured he could shoot me and catch the phone before it hit the water. But then, a slow, wet cough rattled in his chest, and his grip on the gun shifted just a fraction as his shattered kneecap screamed in agony.
"You're bluffing, Jules," Roman wheezed, spitting another glob of bloody saliva onto the concrete. "You're a terrified college kid with a broken wrist and a bleeding throat. You don't have the guts to destroy the only lev