Flash of Death by Cindy Dees

Author:Cindy Dees
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-10-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Trent was on the verge of doing violence to his surfing buddy by the time he managed to peel himself away from the crowd the guy’d blithely gathered around to hem him in.

He searched frantically for their pursuers. Were they lurking nearby waiting for him to make a move? But there was no sign of a single one of them. That answered that. This wasn’t about him and Code X at all. As he’d suspected, these guys were purely after Chloe. He swore violently and his terror climbed another notch.

If she’d done as he ordered and run for it, she’d had enough of a head start that she should have been able to get outside and fade into the crowd. Maybe grab a taxi or duck into a store and hide. If. Should. Maybe. Dangerous words to hang a person’s life and limb on. Particularly a woman he cared about greatly.

He didn’t panic often, but he panicked now. She had to be okay. The idea of her injured or worse made his chest feel like someone had blown a massive hole through it.

She was no doubt cooling her jets at the Millennium Club, bored out of her mind and wondering where the heck he was. He would join her there, and she was going to laugh her head off at him for worrying that she couldn’t take care of herself.

He headed outside of the Moscone Center to hail a cab, and while he waved at taxis he dialed her cell phone. It rang three times, clicked, and then cut off. That was weird. Not only had she not answered, but it hadn’t kicked over to voice mail. The hole in his chest expanded until it choked off his breathing. He dialed again, praying fervently that her wireless network had just dropped the call. This time, he got a message that the number he’d dialed was not available.

Swearing in a continuous stream, he jumped into a cab and bit out the address of the Millennium Club and urged the driver to hurry. He’d run, but the streets were still crowded, and, at all costs, he couldn’t give away Code X by letting the public see his mad speed. Of course, telling a cabbie to hurry was like giving a crack addict a shot of adrenaline. The taxi ride turned into a death-defying stunt derby...and he didn’t care in the least.

He raced past all the cool electronics in the health club’s lobby and fretted impatiently as the elevator whisked him up to the sixth floor. Racing to the health club’s front counter, he asked urgently, “Has Chip Jones arrived yet?”

The receptionist smiled. “A woman showed up asking for him a while ago. And then those other men came and she left with them.”

It was all Trent could do not to dive across the counter and grab her shirt. “What men?” he demanded sharply.

The receptionist recoiled in alarm. “There were four of them. In suits. She walked out with them like she knew them.

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