Hard to Trust by Wendy Byrne

Author:Wendy Byrne [Byrne, Wendy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing
Published: 2015-02-13T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Tessa screamed like a little girl, not like a seasoned CIA agent, but she couldn't help herself. One minute she was standing next to Jake, the next she was sliding down an incline of indeterminate size. She dug in her heels and placed her forearms along the ground to gain purchase on the slippery landscape. No dice. Every bump and rock felt like boulders, jarring and bruising her body on the way down.

She spotted something below. Oh hell, that was a highway. If the fall didn't kill her, a truck would no doubt roll over her.

Jake shined the phone flashlight then she heard him swear, which only added to her worries. That couldn't be good. His footsteps tumbled down the incline, his heavy boots grabbing the rough terrain with ease.

Somehow he managed to make it to the bottom and grabbed her arm seconds before a car whizzed past. Her heart and stomach were still in free fall, her insides as shaky as a leaf on a tree in a tornado.

"Are you all right?"

"If you mean did I break anything? I don't think so. If you mean does everything hurt like hell? That would be a yes."

"We're sitting ducks in the open like this."

"I'm not sure—"

He put a finger to her lips to shush her. Her already erratic pulse did a shift into overdrive. She wasn't sure how much more adrenaline overload her heart could take.

She needed to stop being a wimp, but every time she breathed her body hurt like she was being prodded with a red-hot poker along every square inch.

The sound of voices carried through the night. She couldn't be sure how far away they were, but if she could hear them she figured they were close enough to worry about.

He yanked her beneath an overhang as the conversation filtered from above. Her teeth started to chatter. He slipped an arm over her shoulder, pulling her tight.

"She's got to be here somewhere. I wish we had the night-vision scope about now."

Tessa held her breath and thought about death. They didn't have night vision but had somehow managed to track them through the field. Somebody wanted her dead—but first they wanted information from her that she didn't know she had.

"Somehow we lost the signal." Another guy spoke. Neither voice sounded even remotely familiar. And neither had Russian accents.

"It was like they disappeared."

"Tell that to the boss. I'm sure he won't be real happy about their disappearing act once again."

"He might change his mind about wanting her alive even if she has secrets stashed away somewhere."

"They did not come this way. I'm telling you. I lost the signal in the field somewhere."

"What kind of dumbass tracking thing do you have that it keeps shorting out?"

"It had to be microscopic to avoid detection. And we're still working out some of the bugs."

Their voices faded into the distance as the men got farther away. Finally, she felt like she could breathe again. Jake's hold on her lessened.

"That settles it. The signal's not in the car," he said.

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