Midnight Guardian by Linda Castillo

Author:Linda Castillo [Castillo, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781459225411
Goodreads: 13389128
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2006-05-09T05:00:00+00:00

MATTIE DIDN’T KNOW if she was dizzy from the blow to her head or the kiss that had hit her every bit as hard. But her head was spinning as Cutter took her down the snow-covered trail. She couldn’t believe The Jaguar had found them, that they’d come within inches of being blown to smithereens. She couldn’t believe hard-nosed Sean Cutter had kissed her senseless. It was the last thing she’d expected him to do. But then, in the last thirty-six hours, she’d come to expect the unexpected.

She could hear the chopper. The roar of the engines. The rotors cutting through the air. The occasional rapid fire of an automatic weapon.

“This way!”

Cutter shouted the words an instant before he went off the trail. The trees they’d been using for cover melted away and they found themselves in a wide, open meadow. The scene might have been beautiful if there hadn’t been a madman bent on killing them in hot pursuit. Mattie suddenly felt dangerously exposed. What was Cutter thinking?

“Are you trying to get us killed?” she shouted. “We’re sitting ducks here!”

“Trust me.”

She tried to wrench her hand free of his, but he tightened his grip and picked up speed. They ran through snow that came up to her knees. The base of some type of steel tower blew past. She was beginning to tire.

A burst of gunfire erupted. A bullet zinged past her ear. Another ricocheted off an exposed rock. “Cutter, they’re shooting at us!”

“Not for long.”

He veered left and pulled her into a wild sprint toward a second tower. In the back of her mind it registered that the tower held high-voltage power lines. There was a clearing where crews had cut a swath of trees to build the massive towers. The realization that Cutter was purposefully leading the chopper to the power lines registered just as she heard a thunderous crack! Out of the corner of her eye she saw the chopper tilt at a precarious angle. The tail rotor snapped into two pieces. Electricity arced. Sparks flew. White smoke billowed.

An instant later the fuselage exploded. An orange ball rose into the sky like a fiery air balloon. Debris flew outward. The chopper came apart in midair, then huge chunks of twisted steel plummeted to the ground.

“Oh my God,” she heard herself say. “They hit the power lines.”

Cutter watched the last of the debris hit the ground. “Visibility is poor because of the snow. They couldn’t see the wires.”

The sight of such utter destruction left her paralyzed. Even though the men in the chopper had been trying to kill them, Mattie suddenly felt an urgent need to help them. “Cutter, we can’t just walk away from them.”

Without waiting for a response, she extricated her hand from his and started off at a jog toward the downed chopper. “We have to help them.”

Cutter caught up with her, captured her arm and spun her to face him. “You don’t want to go over there,” he said.

“Those men could be…injured or dying.

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