Midnight Run by Castillo Linda

Author:Castillo, Linda [Castillo, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Suspense
ISBN: 9781426881015
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-10-30T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

H eedless of his own safety, Jack reached for Landis and hauled her inside. “Get down!”

“The police?” she asked.

“Cops usually don’t shoot the hostage.” He slammed the door, bolted it, then turned to her, his eyes wild. “Are you hit?” A wave of cold, hard fear thundered through him when he saw the blood on her cheek. “God, you’re bleeding.”

Eyes wide with shock, she raised her hand to her cheek.

Without waiting for an answer, he dragged her away from the door and into the main room, then turned her to him. Swiftly, he ran his hands down her coat, looking for holes or, God forbid, blood. When he found nothing, he raised his hand to her cheek and touched the well of blood with trembling fingers. “A chip of wood must have grazed you.”

She frowned at the blood on his fingers. “Jack, if that wasn’t the police, then who was it?”

“We’re not going to stick around to find out.” Taking her hand, he pulled her through the kitchen and mudroom and out the back door. “The truck,” he said and hauled her into a dead run toward the carport.

“Why are they shooting at us?”

Jack didn’t want to voice what he was thinking. He didn’t want to think about who might be taking potshots at him. He sure as hell didn’t want to think about who might be taking potshots at Landis. “Let’s just concentrate on getting out of here alive for now. If that’s who I think it is, we’ve got about two seconds before all hell breaks loose.”

Their feet pounded through snow as they crossed the driveway toward the detached carport a few yards away. “Get in the truck, then get down on the floor. You got it?”

“You don’t have to tell me twice.”

Jack reached the truck first and yanked open the driver’s side door. Landis lunged inside, then slid across the seat. He heard a gunshot from inside the cabin, realized at least one gunman had gained entry. He jammed the key in the ignition and twisted. The engine coughed and sputtered. “Come on, baby.”

He tried again and the engine turned over. Ramming the shifter into gear, he popped the clutch. The truck jumped forward. Realizing they would be directly in the line of fire if he used the driveway, Jack braced himself and sent the truck down the steep embankment toward the road below.

“Hang on!” he shouted.

A muffled pop sounded over the scraping of rock against the underside of the truck. A hole the size of a dime blew through the windshield. Jack watched in horror as a thousand white capillaries spread across the glass. Swearing, he cut the wheel and stomped the gas pedal to the floor. The truck bounced wildly as it barreled down the embankment. Relief flitted through him when the ground leveled and the tires grabbed pavement. Spewing gravel and snow, he wrested the truck onto the highway and sped north.

For several minutes the only sound came from their heavy breathing. Eyes

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