The Assassin’s Billionaire Bodyguard – Chapter 41
Isabella entered the women’s shelter Saturday morning with Casper on a leash smiling as a handful of children charged her desperate to pat the tiny dog in a bowtie. She handed the lead off to the woman who ran the Saturday morning daycare and smiled. “He’s been looking forward to this for a month.” His movements were so exuberant the little dog was being wagged by his own tail.
She walked to the offices of the administrator and counsellors and poked her head into the room where Sabine had just finished a group counselling session.
“God damn sweet cheeks, you look like hell.”
ir.
lept?”
,” she held up her fingers, “two times, then yes, I’ve slept.”
?”
ne about the circumstances surrounding her rescue. In fact, she’s never allowed to tell anyone other than her psychologist,” she looked pointedly at Sabine knowing full well who would be treating her. “If she hadn’t had her second phone,” she whispered su
she did, and
n the weekend, the booze, the s**t with Evgeni, Portia, Cam. I’m just god damned tired.” She grimaced, “also my mother calling me four times a day asking me if I’m going to give her a spring wedding.”
bine laughed, “gi
of women and children entering the center for the various classes happening during the day trailing down the hall. Weekends were always the busiest t
How’s Evge
told Clara he’s taking him back to Russia. He’ll get him additional treatment in Europe.”
s of the reason for it.”
”
ting the chairs away and I’ll be down if you need a partner.”
too with Edward.”
droves Isabella.”
I know and I’m grateful
g out the mats on the floor as people trickled in. A couple of smaller kids charged her, and s
window.
d for the last mat when a hand reached out and took it from her. She looked up in surp
abella.”
as too much,” he commented dryly his green eyes raking over her face.
ry. The desire to knee him in the groin was immense as anger at his callous treatment of her rose.. She pushed the fury down and refocused her attention on the task at hand. The women who attended this class came here to learn a few things to feel more secure if they walked home alone.
waved excitedly, no obvious trauma from the events of Thursday night.
waited until people were no longer trickling in and she caught Clara grinning wickedly in her direction. She was here for the show. She clapped her hands and then put her fingers to her lips and let out a shrill whistle capturing everyone’s attention.
and then stood in front of the class. Clara, Sabine, Edward, Gideon, and Portia were all watching from chairs on the side of the room.
in for an early morning class and ran you through the defensive tech
the first time going through these techniques.”
me of you questioned how to do some of these manoeuvres against someone bigger than you, I brought a real deal caveman to experiment on.” At his grimace and the crowd’s laugh she waved at him, “This is Cam Torres. He’s a real-life bodyguard and is highly trained in self-defence. He’s graciously agreed to let me use and abuse him today.” She motioned for one of the kids to bring her bag to her. She ruffled the girl’s hair as she passed it to her. “Thank you, Missy.” She motioned to the kids. “Do you three kiddos know Casper is in the other room and Mrs. Jones has cookies?” Isabella grinned as they squealed Casper’s name and took off running. Sometimes little kids got scared when you were teaching their mother how to defend themselves from things going bump in the night and she preferred they weren’t in the room unless a bit older.
, “should we show them what it looks like when someone gets pepper sprayed in the face?”
in agreement with the proposal.
were questioning the effectiveness of pepper spray, note my six-foot four model was genuinely terrified of being sprayed.”
hurts.”
kled.
anage to scrape their face, it’s possibly enough to give you the edge to run.”
your legs look good,” she looked at Cam. “Right?”
rgue with her.
yway. Put the flats on. Better, if you carry the stiletto in your hand,” she pulled one from her bag, “while you’re walking with your flats, anyone coming at you can be stopped with a stiletto to the face.” She saw Cam’s grimace of distaste and she shrugged, “when your life is on the line, everything and anything you can use as a weapon should be considered, including a spiky heel.” She commented dryly, “also doubles well as a stake to a vampire’s heart.”
and showed the women how to make a fist without cutting their palms.
aking the fist.
ut and act like it was no big deal. If your hand is not held the right way, you could end up with a broken knuckle or wrist depending on how your
If you break your knuckle while breaking an assailant’s nose you’re still winning.”
disagree.”
height is an advantage over someone Clara’s size.”
quipped with a wink.
u can do regardless of your size to get away from someone.”
e motioned for Cam, “you are going to come at me from behind.”
is a family show, Isabella,” one of the women taking the class called out and she shook her head at her with a sm
knew he was debating whether he wanted to come at her. He wrapped his arm around her neck and his other
He pointed at Isabella, “you’re playing rough.”
eathing.”
his chest,
he motioned for Portia, “Come here Portia.”
her heels off and raced over, willing to participate now. “Cam, you’ll put your arms around Portia the way you just did me.”
s daughter and Isabella grinned, “you ready to take your dad down?”
hole group laugh.
age met. “For Portia, she’s shorter than I am. You can bring your elbow upwards on an angle,” she slowly demonstrated moving Portia’s arm in a way the group could see towards the midsection, “or you can bunch your fist and drop it backwards as hard as you can at the groin.” She smirked, “go for option two if you feel strongly about being an only child.” The crowd was roaring at Isabella’s commentary and Cam was trying hard not to panic and Isabella could see it in his eyes. She patted his shoulder, “you’re an ex-Navy seal, you got this. Stop being a baby.”
Gideon’s raspy laugh was contagious to a lot of the class.
monstrated on her own foot.
omatic need for self-defence thereby allowing you to step away.”
tepped away so the group could see how someone untrain
s and then ran and hid behind Isabella.
iately jumped up not to be outdone by the
her ear. “You and I are having words later.”
ion and clapped her hands. “That move took me years to learn ladies, but not going to lie, it felt really good.”
lara clapped with pride as she walked