Exposing a Killer by Laurie Alice Eakes

Author:Laurie Alice Eakes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-05-08T17:26:45+00:00

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Megan felt helpless. If she ran toward Jack, she would get hurt herself, possibly killed. If she didn’t help him, he would most certainly die. She took the only other action presented to her.

She entered the yard, grabbed the heavy wrought iron table from the deck and shoved it in Jack’s direction. It screeched across the boards of the deck. Useless. She managed to lift a matching chair and throw it. Her missiles blocked Jack from her sight, but she heard his shout, then the metallic rumble of rock striking iron. Fireflies of sparks flew into the night, and the bass rumbled on and on and on, fading beneath Megan’s shouting of Jack’s name.

“Here.” His voice was winded, but clear and very much alive. “I’m here.” He moved then, creeping from beneath the twisted mess of table and chairs.

“Are you all right?” Megan ran to him and dropped to her knees beside his still prone figure. “Did you get hit?”

“Not much. The table stopped it.” Jack pushed himself to a sitting position. He glanced from the table to Megan. “How did you manage to move that thing so far so fast?”

Megan shrugged. “The strength of adrenaline?”

“That was...something.” He still sounded breathless.

She rested one hand on his shoulder. “Are you sure you’re all right? Should I call an ambulance?”

“No, but we’re going to have to call the cops. That was a trap set deliberately.”

“For us?”

“Or anyone who got too close.”

Megan shook her head. “How would they have had time?”

“It might have been here for a while to keep people from the house. Step on the threshold and...mashed potatoes.”

Megan coughed. “Thanks for that image.”

“Well, see what you think of this image.” He closed his eyes as though he pondered something new. “Explaining what we’re doing here to the cops.”

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