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“I said freeze!” Kendra shouted through gritted teeth.

She tried to catch up as the man darted into the adjoining room where Joe held someone’s hands behind their back with one hand.

“Joe,” she called out. He looked up in time to see the man running his way. He whirled around, but the man struck Joe’s head with the flashlight. Joe groaned and dropped to the ground.

The man and his freed accomplice wasted no time running to the door. Kendra raised her weapon and aimed at the set of fluorescent lights. She pulled the trigger and a heartbeat later the glass rained down, but the two figures rushed past the door and disappeared. Kendra ran forward.

“Joe?” She touched his face. He was unconscious. Sometimes an impact to the head could be so intense the brain actually hits against the skull and shuts down, hopefully only for a moment.

She slid her fingers to the spot underneath his chin and lightened the pressure. Please let me find his heartbeat.