Gone Missing by Camy Tang

Author:Camy Tang
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-08-24T04:00:00+00:00

ELEVEN

Joslyn was crammed under the dashboard, her head tucked into her knees, as the sound of the gunshots snapped through the woods, partially absorbed by the trees. The shatterproof glass of the windows held, but a few stray bits rained on her head. Clay had his arms around her, his body shielding her from most of the debris.

“It’s two weapons against one,” she whispered. “I’m not that good a shot.”

“I think Bobby’s out in the woods.”

“How do you know?”

“The headlights reflected off something...I think it’s him, anyway.” They both flinched as pieces of the window fell into the car.

Clay suddenly reached across to the other side of the passenger seat and pulled the lever to angle the back of the chair. It dropped to not quite full horizontal. “Out the back door. Come on!”

Joslyn spread herself out on top of the stretched-out chair and pulled the door handle to swing the back door open. She saw that the trees the car had hit had blocked in her own door, and the back door only opened partway because it was hampered by a huge bush. She slithered out onto the ground, then scrambled out of the way as Clay followed her.

He shouted to the men, “What did you do with my sister? I know you have her!”

Joslyn gave him a wide-eyed look that silently asked him, What are you doing?

“I’m telling Bobby it’s me,” Clay whispered. “Get your weapon out. You’re going to have to distract them.”

She could do that. She got her firearm and flicked the safety off, then eased it on top of the trunk of the car for a stable firing surface and looked out.

The woods were dark, but the sky above was still light and she could make out the men also crouched behind their own car. She’d thought it was right next to theirs, but it must have bounced backward after the collision, twisting around slightly so that it faced the way it had come with a stretch of driveway between the two vehicles.

As soon as the men paused in their firing, she aimed a shot at the rear bumper, where Met was hiding, and then at the front hood, where she thought G was. They answered with more gunfire.

“Police?” she whispered to Clay. How close were the neighbors? Surely they’d hear the gunfire.

“Too far away to get here quickly,” Clay said. “When you fire again, I’m going to sneak around the woods to try to get the drop on G.”

“They’ll see you.”

“It’s getting darker. I’ll be careful.” He pulled his jacket sleeve down to hide the bright white of his cast.

She shot several rounds into their windows, spidering the glass and hopefully obscuring any view they might have had. She felt rather than heard Clay move away through the woods.

She crouched behind the car, her heart pounding, intermittent gunfire ringing in her ears. She didn’t want to hit Clay, but she also wanted the thugs focused on her and not on the woods around them.

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