Deadly Obsession (A Brown and de Luca Novel Book 4) by Maggie Shayne

Author:Maggie Shayne [Shayne, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

10

It was a nightmare.

It had to be. I kept telling myself to wake up.

Mason skidded to a stop behind the fire trucks that filled the driveway and spilled out onto the road. He was out of the car and sprinting, the nice jacket he wore flapping like the wings of a frantic bird, his arms pumping, his face contorted in anguish and effort.

I ran behind him, but I wasn’t feeling my feet hitting the ground or the strain of my muscles. I was feeling pain. Mason’s pain. Overriding my own.

The house was engulfed, every bit of it being devoured by hungry flames that seemed to hiss and snap at the watery cannons that tried to beat them down. Mason was past the fire trucks, cutting such a sharp turn around the front of one that I thought he’d crash. He didn’t. I strained to keep up, my eyes on the blazing inferno that used to be Mason’s house. The boys were inside! Myrtle! My heart trembled. My lips formed the word no. I took the corner after Mason, trying to scan the crowd for any sign of the kids or Myrt. I spotted Vanessa Cantone, looking less like a police chief than ever with mascara tears streaming. I spotted Rosie, Mason’s partner. He stepped into the path of Mason’s mad sprint. Mason crashed into him, and they both went down.

“Mason, wait!” Rosie shouted, but Mason was already on his feet again. Rosie moved faster than I’d ever seen him move, springing up like some kind of overweight Chuck Norris, right into Mason’s path again. He put his hands on Mason’s shoulders.

“The firefighters are already inside, Mace.”

“They’re my fuckin’ kids!”

Mason shoved Rosie aside, and then Rosie drew back, punched him in the jaw and knocked him flat on his ass. Before he could get back up, three more cops were on him, and Vanessa Cantone was one of them.

“There’s nothing you can do, Brown!” she shouted. “You’ll just keep them from finding the kids and getting them out by distracting them with your sorry ass.”

“I’m going in, goddammit.” He wrestled free of all of them and made it about two more strides before three firefighters ran out the front door and two more came crashing through windows like divers, hitting the ground, springing up again and running like hell toward us. Behind them the house just...it just folded in on itself like a tower of playing cards. The walls fell inward, the roof collapsed to the ground. A giant blast of sparks and flame shot upward. And then there was no more house. Just a mound of burning debris.

Mason fell to his knees, collapsing much like the house had. He said, “Rachel,” in this breathless voice like nothing I’d ever heard in my life.

I knelt down beside him, wrapped my arms around his neck. “They’re not in there,” I whispered, right up against his ear, but it came out all broken up by sobs, and my face was wet against his neck.

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