Alex Bond Quotes

They turned again onto a quite side street. James held up his hand to stop Alex and they both listened. A few streets over there was the sound of laughing and screaming children. However, where they were it was just the rustle of trash against the pavement. Then a man appeared at the end of the street. He was in the shadows so Alex couldn’t really see him, but she felt herself instinctively go up onto the balls of her feet. Fight or flight, both required quick feet. Another shadow joined the first, this one broader and taller than the first. James took a step forward and put himself between Alex and the men. They moved forward slowly, either sizing up the situation or trying not to scare them away. “Leave,” James said over his shoulder to Alex. …show more content…
“It wasn’t a request.” “I don’t take orders.” James spared a glance in Alex’s direction, but didn’t continue to argue with her. Alex was a bit surprised to find that she was anticipating this encounter. After all this talk of vague threats and dangerous men, finally she would have a picture to go with the fear. She knew that they were going to look the villains in action movies, but still that was the pictures that she was conjuring. Maybe it was too many Bond films in her youth. James however was completely still, almost a statue. There was no anxiousness in his body, no tension. Alex knew how quickly that could change, but his calm was unsettling. Was it just the calm before the storm or if he was slipping into Terminator