Abduction in the Dark by Jenna Night

Author:Jenna Night
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2022-01-04T23:00:39+00:00

EIGHT

Five more gunshots followed the first, and a car careened around the corner, turning from the main street onto the smaller road running alongside the parking lot.

Tanya dived to the ground and scrambled to get underneath the SUV, feeling the burn from losing a strip of skin on her chin when she scraped it on the asphalt. Danny crouched down beside his vehicle. He didn’t take cover underneath it alongside her. Instead, he used the SUV as a barricade.

Tanya turned her head, unable to see much more than the scattered fragments of glass on the pavement. The sound of the car involved in the attack faded away.

Adrenaline sent her body shaking, and her unsteady emotions seemed to match the physical movements. Despair threatened to overwhelm her. These attacks were relentless. It seemed like they were never going to end.

Using small movements in the restricted space beneath the SUV, she turned toward Danny. She saw his booted feet on the pavement. Then she saw something else close beside his feet. Drops of blood. Her hammering heart felt like it suddenly stopped.

Danny’s been shot.

“You’re hurt!” she called out, barely able to hear her own voice over the spiral-sounding car alarms and honking horns that had been triggered by the gunfire. A crushing sense of guilt threatened to pin her in place as she realized that Danny had been out there facing danger while she’d been hiding under the SUV.

“It’s nothing,” he answered back.

Of course he would say that.

She began to scoot out from beneath the vehicle to see for herself if he was okay. He could need help. Maybe he needed her to put pressure on a gunshot wound to keep him alive. He might need an ambulance. With all the car alarms going off and the sounds of gunshots, somebody in the office complex must have called 9-1-1. The dispatcher would send emergency medical services to respond along with the cops, right?

What if Danny had injuries that required immediate first aid? She didn’t know what to do. She needed her phone. It was in her purse. Where was her purse? She must have dropped it when the shooting started.

She clambered out from beneath the SUV and saw Danny, still crouching, with his face turned away. He held a gun in his right hand and pressed his left hand to his collarbone near the base of his neck. He turned toward her, and she saw that blood had seeped down onto the front of his shirt.

“You’re hurt,” she said again before crawling toward him. “Let me take a look.”

“A small cut. Looks worse than it is. A chunk of glass or plastic from a mirror must have hit me.”

“How do you know it didn’t hit an artery?”

He let go of a grim laugh. “If it had, I’d be unconscious by now.”

Oh, yeah. If she weren’t freaking out, she would have thought of that.

“Where are the cops?” she said. “They’re taking forever to get here.”

“It always feels like forever when your life is in danger.

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