Her Only Protector by Lisa Mondello

Author:Lisa Mondello
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2008-12-14T05:00:00+00:00

EIGHT

The morning had started out so well. Sonny had actually gotten out of bed feeling less afraid than she had since learning of the kidnapping. She felt safe, as if all the horrible nightmares she’d been having were just that—nightmares that would vanish as soon as the sun came up.

Boy, what a delusion that was. Nothing had changed. If anything, the nightmare had only gotten worse.

“I won’t give this baby over to Eduardo Sanchez.”

“I know.”

“Gil?” Marco moved closer and lowered his voice, although there was no way for Sonny to avoid hearing him since she was standing right there. “Gil, if they come here we won’t have a choice. They’re not the kind of people who will say ‘pretty please.’”

“Then we’d better hope they don’t come here,” Gil answered resolutely.

“Too late,” Cooper said, looking out the window.

Gil charged toward her. “Why?”

“They’re banging on doors.” Cooper turned and looked at Sonny. “I’m surprised they are even bothering to knock.”

Gil blew out an exasperated breath. “It just gets better by the minute. Sonny, do you recognize that man talking to the soldiers?”

Sonny came to the window and peered outside into the parking lot.

“Oh, no!” she said in a harsh whisper. “That’s Manuel Turgis. I’ve seen his picture. He’ll know who I am.”

“Gil, Turgis can’t find Sonny here,” Cooper said.

Gil looked around the room, at the windows, at the door to the courtyard. “Come in here,” he said, advancing toward the bedroom.

Sonny followed. “The hotel knows we have a baby here.”

“Cooper and Marco, do something to stall them,” Gil said, pushing the bedroom door open.

“Are you kidding?” Marco said. “How do you stall Colombian military?”

“Figure it out, Marco.” He pulled Sonny into the bedroom. “Come with me. They know we have a baby with us, but they don’t know we have Ellie,” Gil added. “If the hotel knew for sure Ellie was the baby the authorities were looking for, the soldiers would have been in here by now. My guess is they’re on a hunt. We don’t have much time to hide you.”

Startled, she stopped short of picking Ellie up from her crib. “What do you mean me? We need to hide Ellie.”

Gil turned to her and held her back from taking the baby. “Get in the tub.”

“What?”

Sonny heard the pounding on the door to the villa and her blood ran cold. Lord, what are we going to do?

“Trust me, Sonny. Get in the tub.”

Sonny stared at Ellie in the crib. She was still asleep, even though she was stirring. But in a matter of seconds she’d be wailing from the noise of the soldiers bursting into the room.

“You’re going to have to take a leap of faith on this, Sonny,” Gil urged, pulling her into the bathroom.

“I can’t do it,” she whispered, trying to pull out of his grip.

Gil held her tightly by the arm. “Manuel Turgis is out there, and he’s looking for you—not just Ellie. Now I can fool him with regard to Ellie, but you are a different story.”

She glanced around the room.

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