Pucking the Captain
The metal weapon—a heavy, suppressed pistol—clattered away across the floor, sliding under the sink.
He recovered instantly, his massive hands wrapping around my throat, squeezing with a brutal, terrifying strength that immediately started cutting off my air supply.
I thrashed beneath him, my vision swimming with black spots, my bad wrist screaming as I tried to pry his fingers off my windpipe. He was too strong, too professional, and he was slowly crushing my throat.
*Use the shears,* my brain screamed. *Use the fucking shears!*
My right hand was still locked around the trauma shears. I brought my arm up, blindly driving the serrated steel blades downward into the side of his neck and shoul