Deadlock by Cherrie Lynn

Author:Cherrie Lynn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Women's Adventure Fiction;Romantic Suspense;Mystery Romance;Mystery & Suspense Romance;Kidnapping Crime Fiction;International Mystery & Crime;Organized Crime;Hackers;Military;MIT;Smart;Intelligent;Computer;FBI;Contemporary Romance;Sexy;Mistaken Identity;Overcoming Odds;Second Chance Love;Suspenseful;Denver;Christmas;Colorado;Coding;Tattoos;Alpha Male;Secret Group;Intense;Moody;Entangled;Mass Market Paperback Romance;Sexy Romance;Cherrie Lynn;Amara;Single Title;Full Length Romance;NYT Bestselling author;Thrilling Romance
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-05-06T22:30:11+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

She worked late into the night, after moving the picture of Lena and herself next to her laptop so she could look into her sister’s eyes as she did all she knew to save her life. Lena’s smile was a tad on the bland side in the picture. But she always had that wistful distance in her expression, as if she constantly wished she were somewhere else, doing something much more exciting. The family had accepted long ago that was the reason for her frequent disappearing acts. Living life on her terms.

Well, she was getting a little more excitement than she’d bargained for now, wasn’t she?

At three a.m., Lindsey pressed her fingertips into her dry, aching eyes. Done. She set her laptop aside on the bed and reached to turn off her lamp. Almost before her head hit the pillow, she was asleep, but the nightmares came soon after.

In one, she was fighting an unseen attacker, and she woke up panting and sweating. It took her half an hour to fall back asleep after being jolted awake from the panic, only to fall into a worse dream, one that had no images she could recall. A blank, black wall of dread and isolation and loss, where somehow she knew everyone she loved was gone.

For her, it was hell, and that one brought her awake gasping.

Dammit, she had to keep it together. She went to the kitchen for a drink of water, then strolled to her window to look out over the streets below. Flurries danced past her window, some tiny, some fat flakes that hit the warmer glass and immediately melted.

Lindsey watched the silent, hypnotic show outside, remembering snowy Christmases past when all of them were together, laughing, building snowmen, opening presents, drinking cider.

What would happen this year? When her parents didn’t hear from Lena at the holiday, they would know something was wrong.

Was her sister even out there? Alive? She had to be. Some innate twin-sense would surely be thrumming in Lindsey’s soul if the unthinkable had happened. Once, when they were seventeen, Lindsey had awakened in a panic one night for no discernable reason. Two hours later, her parents had gotten a call that Lena’s then-boyfriend had driven off a snowy road and crashed, sending them both to the hospital. Thank God, they’d been okay, but she’d never forgotten that.

Hell, she’d been running on so much adrenaline and blind panic lately that she couldn’t take comfort in that. She couldn’t piece together any sense of her sister’s well-being among all the noise in her mind. Besides, the eerie connection had only happened that one time.

She couldn’t keep imagining the worst. Those were the thoughts Jace would tell her not to let in.

Lindsey went back to bed, but those doubts simply wouldn’t stop. She tossed and turned the rest of the night, and when a cold, gray day finally greeted her, she felt as if she hadn’t slept in years.

…

“I know you’ve vowed a dozen times you’re only friends, but are you sure that—”

“Mom.

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