Hidden Twin by Jodie Bailey

Author:Jodie Bailey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-03-06T17:55:27+00:00

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“Get down!” Sam shifted the truck into Reverse, then reached over and shoved the back of Amy’s head toward her knees. There was no way the truck’s doors would stop a heavy-duty bullet if it found its way between the mechanisms inside, but thin sheet metal was a whole lot safer than glass windows.

Amy said nothing, simply obeyed as she dug her head between her knees.

Sam hoped she was praying. Pressing the gas almost to the floor, he hung a J-turn, the truck’s tires spinning for traction on a thick bed of leaves. As the front end swung around, another gunshot cracked and a bullet popped against metal. Whoever was firing wasn’t a sharpshooter, but they only needed one good shot to make his night a whole lot worse.

Sam shifted into Drive and strained with the truck as it hesitated to move. Another gunshot, another thwack, this one louder, harsher. A sharp burn bit into the back of Sam’s left leg. Swallowing the cry that wanted to escape, he prayed for forward motion as the truck’s bed fishtailed before it gained traction. They shot forward way too fast, bouncing along the rutted drive toward the road. “You okay?” If the bullet that had clipped him had hit Amy...

“Fine.” Her voice rattled with the jolt as the truck bottomed out in a rut. “You?”

“Fine. Stay down until I know we’re clear.” His relief at Amy’s safety was short-lived. He had to put distance between them and the cabin fast, before the shooter could pursue.

The truck careened onto the road, engine screaming as Sam pushed it to its limits, headed north and deeper into the mountainside forest.

It was hopefully the last direction the shooter would expect them to be heading. Help was behind them, toward Atlanta. In front of them? Sam scrolled through possibilities. They were slim. He’d only used this safe house one other time, with Devin Wallace, so either their safe houses were compromised or someone knew where Sam had been headed.

Without his team, Sam was on his own. This wasn’t his wheelhouse. He didn’t do long-term protection details, not since Wallace. No one was ever in his care long enough for Sam to lose them.

This situation called for an entirely different kind of plan, but there were too many things vying for attention in his brain, and they all circled back to one undeniable question.

Who was behind this? The Marshals Service prided itself on the integrity and skill of its people, especially in WITSEC and particularly on elite teams like Sam’s. No one in the program who’d followed the rules had ever been harmed. The idea that there was a mole in WITSEC was ludicrous. This had to be from the outside, from the hack of Edgecombe’s laptop.

He checked the rearview and saw no lights behind them. In darkness this deep, following them without headlights would be suicide. For the moment, they were clear. “You can sit up. I’d hate for you to get car sick.”

Amy eased upright, her face pale in the dim light.

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