Buck and Chloe spoke in private. “You could have been killed,” she said. “I’m surprised I wasn’t. I just know I killed that guard. I can’t believe it. But he had just murdered the receptionist, and I knew he would do the same to us. I reacted instinctively. If I’d thought about it, I might have frozen.” “There was nothing else you could do, Buck. But you can’t kill a man with a punch, can you?”