Defense Breach by Lisa Phillips

Author:Lisa Phillips
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-06-04T19:10:24+00:00

THIRTEEN

Grady pushed the door open and walked down the hallway to the room where the doctors were examining Skylar. The rest of his team had shown up, and they’d pinned Barnes in a corner. He’d given up. Thankfully, he hadn’t chosen to end his life—or forced them to do it. Grady hadn’t wanted to kill him when the alternative was watching justice play out.

Still, worry over how Skylar was doing remained foremost in his mind. What had she thought when she woke up and he was gone?

Stringer pushed off the wall and walked toward Grady.

“How is she?”

“A mild concussion. Scrapes and bruises.” Stringer checked his phone. “Nothing major...and I have to go back to the office.” He stuck his hand out again. “Congratulations on bringing Barnes in.”

Grady nodded. Shook his friend’s hand. “I can’t relax yet.” He motioned to her room. “I need her off the street, in a safe house. Just until we know for sure there’s no threat.”

Stringer nodded. “Then you should take her somewhere safe. Now. Barnes is too much of a wild card. We have no idea who he was working with beyond Wilson and those guys. Not worth the risk. The second shooter killed himself before we could capture him, so we have next to no information on this operation.”

“You think Barnes will talk?”

Stringer shrugged. “You think more people are involved?”

“I wouldn’t discount the possibility. Barnes must have friends or a place he could’ve gone to hide out.” And yet he’d headed for the National Archives. Trying to disappear in a crowd? It hadn’t worked.

Grady said, “I’d have figured he was the kind of man who had a whole plan in place. That he’d try to flee to an extradition-free paradise to spend whatever money he’d amassed.”

“But he didn’t,” Stringer said. “And now we can ask him about all of it.”

“Keep me posted.”

Grady wanted to work with his Secret Service team on this. Help bring Barnes’s entire operation down. But Skylar was hurt. He’d have to figure out how to keep her safe from any other threats and pray he could trust the agents and cops assigned to protect her.

“What are you thinking?”

Grady said, “I should stay with Skylar, and make sure she’s safe.”

Stringer nodded. “I’ll run things on my end and call you.”

He gave his friend a nod and knocked on Skylar’s door.

“Come in.”

He cracked the door and got a look at her. Hospital gown. That blond hair down, all around her face. She looked...young. “How’s your head?”

“I had them give me regular painkillers. I’ll be okay.”

He shot her a look. “Is that even true?”

“He said it was a bump, and it’ll hurt, but he didn’t even think I had more than a little concussion.” She lifted her hands. “Gave me some things to watch out for. Like slurring or getting dizzy. Said I shouldn’t push too hard.”

He pressed his lips together. “A little concussion is still a concussion.”

“Honestly, the bruise from getting shot is worse than the bump on my head.” She tipped her head to one side.

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