Midnight Abduction by Nichole Severn

Author:Nichole Severn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-03-06T17:10:06+00:00

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FLAKES FELL IN even sheets as Agent Evan Duran followed the fast-vanishing trail of footprints around the back of the property. The TCD safe house had been compromised by a single shooter determined to get his hands on the skull Benning Reeves had recovered from a Britland Construction property. Only now the evidence was missing. Along with Ramirez.

“What the hell happened here?” JC Cantrell straightened from a crouch beneath the shattered window on the north side of the house.

“I have no idea.” Snow had been falling for the past few hours—long before he and Cantrell had tracked Ramirez’s SUV and recovered Benning Reeves and his daughter on the shoulder of the 441—but failed to hide the stark pool of blood stained into the white backdrop. Mierda. Whether it’d come from the attacker or Ramirez, he didn’t know, but whoever they were, they didn’t have much time after losing that much blood. Whatever’d occurred here, Benning and Olivia Reeves were obviously lucky to be alive, even if that man had walked away with a fresh bullet in his shoulder. “I count three sets of adult footprints, one child. All of them coming from the back of the house.”

“Let’s move.” JC withdrew his service weapon and raised it shoulder level. “If that blood belongs to Ramirez, we might already be too late.”

In the year Agent Ramirez had joined Tactical Crime Division, there wasn’t a lot she’d revealed to the team about her past. She’d transferred from missing persons, but other than that, she liked to keep to herself, which he respected. Every agent on their team had secrets. The TCD worked together, trusted each other with their lives when it counted, but that didn’t mean they had to give up their entire personal histories. He imagined Ana Sofia Ramirez had one hell of a story to tell. Evan had noted the way she isolated herself from the rest of the team, insisted on them calling her by her last name, how she took on every case with a detachment he usually only saw in veteran agents who’d seen too much over the years. There was a reason behind it, a familiarity.

She’d lost someone close to her—violently—and in that regard, he and Ramirez were probably more alike than she realized. If it hadn’t been for Annalise, he never would’ve seen past all that anger, that pain that came with losing the person he cared about to circumstances he couldn’t control. Even worse, the guilt that if he’d only been strong enough, fast enough, he could’ve stopped it from happening in the first place. No matter how old he’d been at the time when his sister was taken.

Ramirez carried that same guilt now and had been investing it into saving as many lives as she could as though she was searching for some kind of redemption. He didn’t know for whom, didn’t have to, but it wasn’t any way to live. The Tactical Crime Division had been created for rapid response, but even then, it was impossible to save everyone.

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