High Speed Holiday by Katy Lee

Author:Katy Lee
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-10-14T04:00:00+00:00

ELEVEN

Sylvie’s eyes shot open on a sharp inhale. Pain struck her senses, and she reached for her head. She groaned as she touched dried blood in her loose ponytail.

How long had she been out? Hours? Days?

She licked parched lips and surveyed her surroundings.

Darkness ensconced her, but somewhere off in the distance a slip of light beckoned. Less than a crack, a sliver, but it had to open to so much more.

If she could reach it.

Sylvie pushed up on weakened hands. No binds of any kind hindered her. At her waist, she found her belt and gun gone. At her shoulder, her radio torn from its place.

She crawled a few feet toward the light and found dirt and old leaves beneath her. She lifted her chin to feel a breeze stir through the dank room. The outside was behind that crack.

She pushed to her feet, her hands on her knees until the dizzying pain subsided a bit. Her first steps slogged. At the crack, she pried her fingers inside and stood on tiptoes to see through to the other side.

Her eyes flinched at the sunlight’s glare. Pristine, newly fallen snow blinded her. She squinted off to the right to allow her eyes to adjust. A black pipe came into view. No, too thick to be a pipe.

A smokestack.

Instantly, Sylvie knew her location.

She’d been dumped inside one of the vacant mills down by the river.

Knowing her location motivated her to use all her might to pull, push and break the wood to get to the other side.

Not a splinter budged from its place.

More elbow jabs and even a good high sidekick that sent her slamming back to the cement only jarred her teeth and nothing more.

She needed to find another way out.

She gave the board one more halfhearted kick before heading back into the darkness.

Careful steps led to a wall, a guide she used to feel her way from corner to corner. For all she knew she could be retracing her steps. At a point where the wall turned another corner, another crack of light gave her a destination. As she neared it a voice filtered to her ears.

Someone was nearby.

Her kidnapper?

She turned an ear to the sound and closed in. A conversation between two men drifted to her. One laughed and said, “We hit the jackpot with this one.”

Sylvie paused. Were they talking about her? It couldn’t be. She wasn’t worth much. If they thought her family would pay out, they’d picked the wrong person.

She softly stepped up to the crack and found it to be a door. Without her gun she couldn’t burst in. A fool’s move if there ever was one.

The other man spoke. “How much longer before you’re in the Spencer accounts?”

Sylvie froze. Her breath crystallized in her lungs. Was she hearing right? Were these guys hackers?

She stepped back. Her foot chinked against a piece of wood, sending it over in an echoing topple.

“Shh...someone’s here. Check it out. I got you covered.” A chair scraped along the floor.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.