Colton Countdown by Tara Taylor Quinn

Author:Tara Taylor Quinn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2022-03-18T15:16:07+00:00

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One step in front of the other. It was all she could do. Life had spiraled so far out of control, out of any comfort zone, out of all realms of anything she’d ever imagined herself doing, that Theresa couldn’t find any sense of a self she knew. So, she took the self she had and determined that that person was going to do whatever it took to find her children.

“Act natural,” Ezra said, his tone striking a new shot of fear through her. “We’re a couple on a stroll...”

About to get shot at? She clutched his hand harder. Whatever happened, holding his hand made it easier to bear.

“The guy behind the counter in the gun shop is watching us. And texting.”

He’d told Dominic that Tom Smith’s doing the same was what had alerted him to their danger at the bunker store. Was the ammunition shopkeeper going to reach for a gun as well?

Ezra wasn’t urging her to run. Or hide. He wasn’t rushing her to face-plant on the floor of their new Jeep. She walked as casually as she could beside him. Looking toward the window of the antique shop next door to their destination. Moving close enough to Ezra that their hips were touching.

“You okay to go in?” Ezra asked as they approached the gun shop.

“Of course.”

She saw the shopkeeper, a skinny guy with a mop of curly red hair falling down around his face, coming around the counter as they got close. Her heart pounded as her gaze flew to his hands, her entire system rushing into flight mode.

The man’s hands were empty. He reached toward the door handle just before they did.

He was going to hold the door open for them?

She’d just started to adjust to the information when she heard a click. And saw a shade come down over the door. Followed by quickly pulled shades on the windows on either side of it.

“He just locked the door on us,” she said, standing there nonplussed.

“Yep.” Ezra moved them quickly toward the antique shop storefront. “Not smart to stand in front of shaded windows,” he said. “Most particularly when the room behind them is filled with arms.”

It was as he said that last word that the blood drained from her face, and what felt like her entire body as well.

His statement brought a picture to her mind’s eye, the glance she’d been taking in of the shop in the seconds before she’d expected to enter it—just before she’d heard the click of the turned lock.

She made it back to the Jeep, hand in Ezra’s, and dropped down to the front passenger seat, hands shaking as she fastened the seat belt. Sweating, she shivered.

“We’ve done what we can do for the night,” Ezra was saying as he climbed in beside her and started the vehicle. “We need to find a room.”

She heard him. Accepted his words. They weren’t enough to bring her out of the horror she’d been catapulted into.

“What is it? Are you hurt?”

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