Mojave Rescue by Tanya Stowe

Author:Tanya Stowe [Stowe, Tanya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-10-13T12:19:51+00:00

Seven

Cal’s somber tone brought the shadows back into the room. Drina placed her fork on her plate. “You would know by now...if I hadn’t interfered.”

Cal shrugged. “You know, I’ve been giving that a lot of thought. I’m not sure that’s true. It’s likely you didn’t interfere. If anything, you just provided them the opportunity they needed to test me.”

“I don’t understand.”

“Think about it. You’d barely scratched the surface on your discovery. It’s going to take more work to bring it to a functioning level. Who’s better qualified than you to do that?”

Shrugging her shoulders, she shook her head. “No one.”

“Then why were they so anxious to kill you before your work was done?”

“I guess they thought they could do it without me.”

Cal’s lips thinned into a straight, determined line. “No. They needed you. What they didn’t need was a questionable informant like me. They needed to prove my unquestionable loyalty.”

“Wait...are you saying they set up my kidnapping just to test you?”

“No. Something forced their hand.”

“What?”

He shrugged. “The clicks on Carlisle’s phone. I think they were CIA wiretaps. He realized we were close so he panicked and told Whitson and Carter to snatch you and make a run for it.”

She tensed and gave him a hard look. “Or maybe Jacobi’s men were tapping Bill’s line. Since he got the alert from our server, maybe he decided to have his men kidnap me before I could get the info to Bill.”

“It’s possible.”

Drina was glad he conceded her point. Nothing Cal could say would sway Drina’s confidence in her mentor. “I trust Bill implicitly.”

“Like you trusted your parents?”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

He shifted his shoulders uncomfortably, obviously aware that he’d treaded on dangerous ground. “You ended a relationship because your parents didn’t like the guy and you’ve felt guilty ever since. Don’t you think it’s time you made your own decisions, based on your own feelings?”

Anger flashed through Drina. “Feelings? It’s always about feelings with you. What about facts? Evidence. Four years of working day to day with Bill tells me I know him.”

He shook his head. “Drina, you’re not sure about your own reasons and motives. How can you possibly be so sure about someone else’s?”

She didn’t have an answer for that. And the truth of it stung. Deeply. She’d spent a great deal of time telling him how little she trusted herself. Now she regretted it. Regretting being open and honest with him at all.

In the sudden silence, they heard sleet beating against the windows like pellets. The ping of the snow was almost painful. A constant reminder of the zinging bullets they’d been avoiding for days.

She studied him, her brow furrowed. It was time to get back to safe ground...ground she understood...the kind that would help. She clenched her fingers. “We still have the emails. Let’s read them and find out what Jacobi was up to after he had me kidnapped.”

Cal gave her a steel-eyed blue glare before he nodded. “Good idea.” He carried the plates to the sink while Drina retrieved her computer from the bedroom and plopped down on the couch.

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