Fatal Deception by April Hunt

Author:April Hunt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2020-06-29T00:00:00+00:00

In his thirty-two years on earth, Roman had established two hard-core rules: Listen to his gut…and his mother. If he ignored either one, trouble almost always followed, which was why he’d taken two additional passes around Beaver Ridge’s perimeter in the last hour.

Emptyhanded, with his internal warning system still blaring, he rounded the corner of the school to see Tony stepping out from the lab.

The older man’s head snapped left and right until his gaze landed on Roman. “Have you seen Isa? She left the hospital to run some samples over to the lab, but she’s not there, and I haven’t seen her since.”

Roman’s gut alarm went off. “How long ago was that?”

Tony checked his watch. “An hour? Give or take a few minutes.”

Fuck. Roman ripped the radio off his hip. “I need a location on Isabel. Now.”

“Not here,” Jaz called in from the dock.

Ryder chimed next via the clinic, “Not here, either.”

One by one, both Roman’s team and their volunteers checked in, and no one had eyes on her. With a curse, Roman bolted toward the cabin, Tony huffing breathlessly behind him, and prayed exhaustion had just sent her to bed for a quick recharge.

“Doc!” Roman burst through the door and immediately scanned the first level. Finding it empty, he immediately jogged up the stairs and into each of the bedrooms. “Doc! Are you here? Isabel?”

There was no sign of her. Anywhere.

He’d stepped onto the porch just as King appeared around the corner, breathless. “Anything?”

“Not a damn thing.”

“Ryder’s checking the hospital with one of the vols to see if she went back there after hitting up the lab.”

As if saying his name aloud conjured him, Ryder’s voice crackled on the radio. “Need you guys down on Main Street. ASAP.”

King and Roman took off, Roman’s leg—at first—protesting the burst of speed. Thanks to Isa’s suggestion to oil the gears, his prosthetic moved easily, and in a matter of a minutes they reached Main Street. Ryder stood with an older couple just outside the local barber shop.

“You see her?” Roman asked his brother.

Ryder shook his head. “But Edith and Henry said they saw her an hour ago walking away from the lab, and she wasn’t alone.”

“Who the hell was she with?”

Henry answered, “A woman. Maybe in her thirties. I thought I’ve seen her around town once or twice before, but I didn’t say anything earlier, because I thought she may be with you.”

“She wasn’t.” Roman locked eyes with his brother and saw the same realization in Ryder’s eyes he knew was in his own. Those bastards had her.

“Where were they headed?”

Henry pointed left, away from the general town hub. “North. But there’s nothing up that way except for some empty cabins Rutledge keeps trying to tear down.”

“King,” Roman growled.

“On it.” Part human and part bloodhound, King led the way up the northern face of the hill, where, just like Henry said, there was nothing except a half-dozen log cabins. Jaz met them halfway, her gun clenched in her hand. Roman and

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