By the looks of it, she was on a roll, plus it seemed to be working so, what the hell. If she continued with her nonsense, it might just buy them enough time to get loose. The situation was as dangerous as any he’d been in, but at the same time her surreal wordplay was exactly what they needed.
“For God’s sake, Matty, what kind of altered universe are you living in that you think kidnapping upstanding citizens is remotely appropriate? By the way, are you sure this woman you’re asking about is lost, or did you get on her nerves with that stinky attitude so she left you? Don’t answer that,” Lux held up her hand to stop Matthaeus from talking; even as she took a step to the side to further obscure Josh from his view.
Good girl, Josh thought as he surreptitiously cast a glance towards the goons who watched Lux with unblinking disbelief.
Finally, his hands were free. Looking over at Sam, Josh raised a brow. Sam returned it with an almost imperceptible nod.
Turing his full attention back to Lux, he was just in time to hear her say something that sounded like, boom, boom, we’re out of this room. Bunching his muscles, Josh surged to his feet. The idiots had forgotten to bind his legs together. They’d tied them to each leg of the chair, but that wasn’t going to stop him.
“Move!” Josh barked at Lux before he went to work. Ignoring Matthaeus, he fixed his attention on the goon who’d dropped Lux onto the floor. The fool was paying way too much attention to his wife antics, and he was on to him in an instant.
He had a score to settle. Since the fool misguidedly thought it acceptable to be so blasé with the handling of his wife. Josh was more than willing to reciprocate. Plus, he had made a promise he intended to keep. With his hands free, it took him exactly three seconds to break every bone in the man’s hands.
Josh felt like a fool with his legs still tied to the chair, but he didn’t dwell on it. The situation was moving fast and every second that passed meant the advantage Lux had worked so hard at getting them would peter out.
He remembered all the tasks his father had set him and Jake in their youth. Why this particular scenario had been a part of Jackson’s repertoire, until now had been a mystery to him. Even as he pivoted, Josh confined to memory the need to commend his father on the thoroughness of his lessons.
Josh used the unattached hind legs of the chair to dig the other guards in the stomach. He then spun him around so he was within reach of his arms. The chop he delivered to the guard’s throat felled him like a tree.
Swinging around, he was just in time to see Sam attempting to grapple a gun from Matthaeus’ hand. What he saw next was so bizarre it stopped him in his tracks. Lux was on her toes with her hands over her head, as though she were in the midst of a pirouette. Josh’s mouth hung open as she spun in a graceful motion, her foot extended just before her heel connected with Matthaeus’ chin. The strike was so hard and fast with her booted foot, Josh could only watch in awe. As he hit the ground, Josh was filled with so much pride the severity of the situation couldn’t suppress the massive grin that overtook his face.
When he finally caught her attention, Josh was so proud of her, he had to offer a compliment. “Luxandria, that was hot!”
Not put off by her eye roll, and his adrenalin running rampant, his mind deviated to how he could entice her to come within his reach so he could get a taste of her.
It seemed he was an open book where she was concerned because she gave him the dirtiest look he had received since their reconnection. Josh wasn’t deterred, he was who he was and as much as he loved her, Lux wasn’t about to change him.
With Lux’s help, they both untied the fragments of the chair. When the last piece of wood clattered to the floor, he noticed a woman standing in the doorway processing the tableau. “Shit!” was all she said.
“I know, right. Sorry, but you’re way too late. My lady just put a pirouette ass kicking on, what did you call him, Luxie? Oh yes, Matty.” Looking around at the only other person involved in the mix, he wanted to confirm Sam hadn’t missed Lux’s move. “You saw that, right?”
“I saw it,” Sam replied his eyes fixed on the woman approaching him.
If Josh were to describe cool unconcerned assurance, the blonde making her way into the room would be foremost on his list. She looked perfect with not a hair out of place. To see her anyone would suppose she was joining them for pre-dinner drinks.
“What are you doing here?” Josh asked the newcomer.
Ignoring his question, the woman approached Sam and looked him over before untying his legs. When he was free from his bonds, she gave him a kiss on the lips.
“You had me worried for a while.” Not waiting for a response, she turned to Lux and looked her over in an assessing manner. “I liked that move. What do you call that toe pointing kick?”
“It hasn’t got a name, all I did was what comes naturally to me.”
“I see, well it was certainly more effective than the stance you took up when I first saw you.”
“I know right,” Lux responded with a slightly embarrassed expression. “Josh looked as though he might know what he was doing, so I copied him.”