Harlequin Intrigue February 2021--Box Set 2 of 2 by K.D. Richards

Author:K.D. Richards
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Hell, he felt like he was floating through endless space with nothing to anchor him.

A groan rumbled through his chest as Finn rolled onto his side, aggravating the wound in his gut. Half of his body had been submerged under water, but he’d managed to pull himself to shore. Rain mixed with blood, dripping from his T-shirt and falling into the marshlike shoreline of the river. His veins strained through his forearms as he pushed onto all fours. Rain lashed at his exposed skin and created a million pits and bubbles on the surface of the water. Cold crawled up the back of his neck.

There was no way to stop the bleeding out here. Not without something to staunch the flow. Under normal circumstances he’d have access to clean water and medical supplies, but the past hour had been anything but normal. He’d seen plenty of cases of penetrating abdominal trauma during his two tours in the Middle East. Mostly from shrapnel, rarely from hand-to-hand combat, but the same principles applied. Apply pressure to stop the bleeding, clean the area and patch. Although, out here, he might have to skip a couple steps. With Camille still missing, possibly in the hands of a killer, he didn’t have much of a choice. It was either risk infection or leave her to fight for herself.

His mind was already made up.

His calf muscles strained as he struggled for balance and got to his feet. The incline he’d rolled down during the fight was slick with rainwater and mud, but he didn’t see any other way around it. He’d taken the wrong trail in his desperation to follow her screams, had given her abductor the opportunity to get the drop on him, and now his witness was in danger. Because he’d made a mistake.

Finn pressed one hand into his gut and locked his back teeth to bite back the scream of pain as he forced one foot in front of the other. Step by agonizing step, he hauled himself up the slick incline, the muscles down the backs of his legs on fire. He couldn’t stop. No matter how much it hurt. He didn’t care if his accelerated heart rate pumped blood out through the wound faster. He wasn’t giving up on Camille.

He dug his free hand into the mud and clawed the last few feet until the ground under him leveled, then fell onto his back. Lungs fighting for air, he blinked against a bright streak of lightning flashing over him. Trees creaked with steady gusts of wind and rain, as though this entire section of woods understood the war tearing him apart from the inside.

He couldn’t lose her. He’d spent his entire life training and preparing for this job, had handled over a dozen witness-protection details, but in less than two mind-twisting days this assignment had already ripped the world right out from under him. But if he was being completely honest with himself, it wasn’t the case.

Camille had defied the

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