Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense January 2018--Box Set 2 of 2 by Christy Barritt

Author:Christy Barritt
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488090004
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Kayla stepped into the tiled bathroom in front of Levi, who quickly locked the door behind them. She glanced at the square window on the opposite side of the room. He was right. It would be tight, but there were no bars, and they should be able to get through it. What she wasn’t sure of was if there was enough time to get out before they got caught.

“It’s going to be hard to cover up the sound of breaking glass,” she said, opening up the cupboards under the sink to search for a towel that would help muffle the noise.

Levi eyed the window. “True, but we can either try to escape this way, or play cat and mouse until Nicu and his brother return, which would greatly lessen our odds of getting out. I just don’t know how I missed whoever’s out there while I was searching the house.”

She tried not to think about the possibility they were leaving her father behind. Levi had been right when he said there was no way to know if he was somewhere on the property. And that they couldn’t help him if they were both locked up as well. But that didn’t stop the worry over what might have happened to him from gnawing at her gut.

I’m trying to trust You, God, but there is so much at stake here.

Trying to focus, she pulled some thick towels from one of the shelves beneath the sink. “It doesn’t matter now what we missed. We just need to get out of here.”

“I figure we’ve got a couple minutes, tops, before they figure out where we are and they find a way in.” Levi climbed up on the counter that ran beneath the window.

He hadn’t mentioned it, but she knew what he had to be thinking. Despite strict gun laws in the Netherlands, Nicu and his brother had both been armed. Which meant whoever was outside that door was probably armed as well. A face-to-face encounter would be risky and something they wanted to avoid.

She glanced at the door. She hadn’t heard any more noises outside the bathroom, but that didn’t mean that whoever was out there wasn’t getting closer. How had they gotten to this point where they were being forced to run for their lives?

Her mind shifted to her sister, Lilly, which brought with it a familiar panic. A spiraling chain of events had taken a straight-A high school student and thrust her into the dark world of human trafficking. All it had taken was a string of bad decisions and one person who’d taken advantage of her naivety, and she’d lost her sister forever. And now another frightening chain of events had brought her here. She couldn’t lose her father as well. He was all she had left.

“Kayla?”

“Sorry.” Her chest heaved as she handed him one of the towels. She had to stay focused, because the men who’d taken them played by an entirely different moral code. The only way to save her father was to get out of this house and go for help.

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