As Lost as I Get by Lisa Nicholas

Author:Lisa Nicholas [Nicholas, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2015-08-17T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Lee wanted to do an inventory of their supplies before it got dark, so they stopped in the middle of the afternoon to regroup. The ground was getting drier with each hour that passed as they climbed higher. With the tarp stretched out under a tree, they sat down and emptied their packs. Zoe had perked up, either from her short nap or just from putting distance between her and the men who wanted to kill her.

The situation wasn’t dire. They had food enough for several days, more if they were careful, and water wasn’t a problem in a place where it rained at least once every day. Lee redistributed their supplies so they each had everything one person would need, and also put the extra in his own pack to save Zoe some of the weight.

“Now,” she said. “You need to let me see your arm.” He wanted to protest that it was just a little cut and he was fine, but the look on her face told him it would be easier in the long run just to give in. She pointed at his shirt, now torn and mud-spattered. “Off with that.”

She didn’t mean it in a sexual context, and he knew she didn’t, but as he pulled his shirt over his head, it was hard not to think of the last time he’d done this in front of her. From the flush that rose in her cheeks, she must have been thinking the same thing. She bent her head over her supplies, taking more care arranging them than he suspected was strictly necessary. He tried to will her to look at him, wanting to see if there was heat in her eyes.

“This might sting,” she said, reaching for his arm with an antiseptic wipe in one hand. Her fingers curled around his bicep below the cut, and were warm through her gloves. “The men at the ranch—why would an ENC colonel be with them, do you think?”

The antiseptic stung like hell; she wasn’t kidding. It distracted him from baser thoughts. “What?”

“A colonel I knew from Inírida. Santiago Vargas. He was with them.”

Lee tried to make sense of that while she cleaned his arm. No one that high-ranking would be undercover. “The guy you had lunch with? You’re sure it was him?”

Zoe nodded, intent on her work, ripping open a suture kit. He grimaced in anticipation. “I’m sure,” she said. “He’s been around the clinic a lot. Helped us with some supplies.”

“Did he see you, at the ranch?” A theory was forming in his mind, and if he was right . . .

“Yeah, I think so. I saw them when they marched in. I think he smiled at me.” She shifted gears. “I need to do these stitches. You’re lucky this wasn’t even worse.”

“Zoe, I need you to describe the man who was leading the group. Was it this Vargas?”

She picked up the suturing needle. “No. He was pale and nearly blond. I thought at first he might have been white, but his features were all wrong.

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