Kidnapped at Christmas by Maggie K. Black

Author:Maggie K. Black
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-10-15T07:00:00+00:00

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“Jessica Wynne from Huntsville!” The so-called detective pounded on the truck again, like he was on a televised cop drama and the hood was his interrogation-room table. “Holly Williams from Ottawa! Isobel Joyner from Mississauga! Monique Nash from Windsor!”

“Does that mean anything to you?” Samantha glanced back at Joshua. “Heard any of those names before?”

“No. I haven’t.”

Clearly Samantha hadn’t either. But here the man was, shouting them over and over again, like he thought they should mean something. Joshua opened the car door, even as he could hear Alex yelling at him not to do anything foolish. But if that man pulled a weapon on a crowded city street, a lot of innocent people could get hurt if Joshua wasn’t there to disarm him.

“I don’t know who those women are.” Joshua stepped out into the snow. “And I’m pretty sure you’re no detective.”

Roy stopped. He walked around the truck slowly, his eyes locked on Joshua. In the corner of his mind, Joshua was keenly aware of the crowd of pedestrians on the sidewalks, the vehicles trying to creep around them, the police station only two blocks away and the lives of three people he cared about sitting between them in the vehicle. But he locked all of his attention on the angry red face of the man slowly pacing him around the vehicle.

“You know what you’ve done,” Roy said.

“Are you sure about that?” Joshua asked. “Because, like I said, I’ve never heard of those women and I’ve never heard of you. So whatever vendetta you think you’re chasing down, and whoever you’re chasing it for, it has nothing to do with me.”

But could it have anything to do with the threats against Samantha?

Roy hesitated. His hand reached inside his jacket pocket. Joshua braced himself and prepared to rush him. Sirens sounded in the distance. Roy turned on his heels and ran, dodging through traffic. Joshua started after him. The lights changed, vehicles started moving again, a car cut across his path and Joshua was barely able to stop as it came within a breath of hitting him.

“Joshua! Come on!” Alex shouted.

He looked back. Alex had inched the truck around until it was creeping up the road behind him. He paused, torn. Roy had disappeared in the crowd ahead of him, in a busy downtown street with dozens of doors and hundreds of escape points. There was no way to know for sure where he’d gone. Meanwhile, his friends sat in the truck behind him. Police were running toward them from the side. He gritted his teeth. He’d promised to protect Samantha. To be her bodyguard. He could hardly do that and go on a wild-goose chase through the darkened city streets. His eyes rose to the thickly falling snow.

Help me, God. I don’t know what I’m supposed to be doing here.

He walked back to the truck. He looked at Samantha, but her head was bowed. Her fingers moved quickly over the tablet screen.

“Zoe’s on the phone with police,” Alex said as Joshua hopped in.

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