Cindy Gerard - Deadly Promises by Anthology

Author:Anthology [Anthology]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-10-20T00:38:33.737000+00:00

came alive with soldiers scrambling, rifles at the ready, as the

general yelled orders that needed no translation.

It was an all-out manhunt.

“Don’t look back,” Cavanaugh ordered as the dogs started

baying and snarling. “It’ll only slow us down.”

He was right, so she forced herself to forget about the guns

and the dogs. She concentrated on putting one foot in front of

the other as Cavanaugh led her away from the mining road

and into the thickness of the jungle.

“THE BAYING IS getting farther away, don’t you think?”

Cav leaned back against a thick tree trunk, boots braced on

the ground against the steep downhill slope, and tried to

listen past the blood pounding in his ears and his heavy

breaths. They’d been on the run for at least an hour. The

sound of the baying dogs was a powerful incentive to keep

moving. This was only the second time he’d allowed them to

stop and rest.

“I think so. Yeah. At the risk of another cliché, it sounds like

they’re barking up the wrong tree.”

She smiled. It felt damn good. What felt even better was that

the guards were searching down the mountain. As he’d also

hoped, it appeared the dogs hadn’t been able to pick up their

exit scent. When they tried to start the vehicles and gasoline

sprayed all over the place, it would be even more difficult for

the dogs, whose highly sensitive sense of smell would be

bombarded.

“Once they figure out the dogs don’t have a trail, they’ll

realize that we went up, not down.” He accepted the water

bottle from her, drained it, then wiped his mouth with the

back of his hand. “But we bought at least an hour. Maybe

two.”

Now all they had to do was get off this frickin’ mountain,

meet up with the contact Wyatt was supposed to have

arranged for them, then lay low until the extraction team—

also arranged by Wyatt—showed up at the designated

landing zone.

Yeah. That’s all.

“Let’s move.” He folded up his map and consulted the GPS.

He hadn’t bothered with his cell phone because his research

had told him they weren’t anywhere near a cell tower.

“There’s a village about ten miles southwest of here, and

that’s where we’re headed.”

“Because?”

“Because we’re expected.”

“You really did have a plan.”

Yeah. He had a plan. Normally he’d have taken weeks to plot

out a rescue op of this scope. He and Wyatt had had only

hours to pull this together and hold it together with kite

string and duct tape.

“You’re going to start trusting me one of these days.” He

grinned back at her as he pushed away from the tree, relieved

her of the backpack, and adjusted the straps to fit his

shoulders.

When he reached for her hand again, she didn’t hesitate or

complain. She just hopped to. Cav’s admiration for her kept

rising.

The jungle was dense and dangerous underfoot, so he’d

risked using the miner’s flashlights from his backpack. He’d

figured correctly that the general wouldn’t question the

lights, since the supposed purpose of his visit was to tour the

dark mines. The fact that he’d had an extra in his pack hadn’t

raised any eyebrows, either because batteries died or bulbs

got broken.

This far away from the mining camp, the risk of using

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