Daring by Dee Davis

Author:Dee Davis [Davis, Dee]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction, Suspense, Contemporary, General
ISBN: 9781455507115
Publisher: Forever
Published: 2011-07-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

She was back in captivity. It was a different camp, this one with buildings as well as tents. Best Lara could tell, she was in a cellar, hands tied above her head with a rope, suspended from a beam that ran the length of the room. The stone walls were covered with moss, the moist air filled with the sickly sweet smell of mildew.

She had struggled to get down, but nothing was working. She was well and truly stuck. And it was all thanks to one man—Rafe Winters. He’d betrayed her in the worst possible way. He’d made her believe in him and the possibility that maybe they had a future together.

What a crock. Instead she’d fallen into a trap older than time. Man seduces woman, and she falls for it—lock, stock, and barrel. She closed her eyes, trying not to think about what might be coming next. She’d heard Rafe and the man called Mumbaro talking about auctioning her off to the highest bidder. At first she’d thought they were talking about the sex trade. But Rafe had soon made it clear that this was something far more nefarious. Her original thoughts had been right. They were selling her as an ex–CIA agent, her value related to what and who she knew.

If her buyers managed to break her—and she had no doubt that eventually they would—she’d not only put her colleagues at A-Tac at risk, she’d quite possibly undermine a large part of the U.S. espionage system. She knew she could hold out for a long time, but in today’s world of terrorist networks, she was certain that eventually they’d find the right combination of torture and drugs.

She blew out a long breath, fighting against the rising panic that threatened to swamp her. It wouldn’t do any good to lose it now. The only chance she had was to figure out a way to escape before any kind of transaction could be made. But so far she hadn’t seen anyone, or heard anything.

She tried to think of what Jason would do, wishing like hell he were here to advise her. But Jason was gone. She was on her own, and it was time to stand on her own two feet—the operative part of the sentence being somewhat impossible with her toes barely touching the ground. She swallowed a bitter laugh, thinking that she’d come a long way from the woman who’d first arrived in Africa.

She’d wanted to help the sick and downtrodden, and instead, she’d wound up fighting for her own life. Damn Rafe Winters. He’d tapped into the part of her that she’d walled off after Jason’s death, coaxed her into believing she could have love again, and then he’d taken her fragile trust and crushed it. Hell, maybe it would have been better to have died at the clinic.

But even as she had the thought, she knew she didn’t mean it. No matter what had happened, she was a fighter. When she’d lost Jason, she’d wanted to crawl in a hole and die, but instead, she’d risen to a new challenge and come to Africa.

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