Mountain Hideaway by Christy Barritt

Author:Christy Barritt
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

“Sit tight for one minute,” Trent said after he finished his sandwich. “I need to make a quick phone call.”

Tessa nodded, curiosity creeping into her gaze.

He wandered out of the main room, but remained close enough that he could keep an eye on her and the windows—not that he could see much with the wall of snow that cascaded from the sky. But he had to remain vigilant in keeping watch. Those men were resourceful, so he wouldn’t put anything past them.

He took the prepaid phone from his pocket and glanced at the screen, fully expecting not to have a signal out here in the middle of nowhere. To his surprise, one bar registered.

He silently thanked God, as it had to be by His grace that he was even able to make this phone call.

He punched in Zach’s number, thankful he had it memorized. A minute later, his friend answered.

“I tried to call you back a couple of hours ago, but your phone went straight to voice mail,” Zach said.

“Yeah, my phone is...indisposed at the moment. I have a new one.” Trent shoved his shoulder against the wall, his gaze continuously surveying the area around him.

“Sounds as if there’s a story there, but save it for later. I looked into this Leo McAllister. I couldn’t find anything on him.”

“Nothing?” Surprise rippled through him. That couldn’t be right.

“Nothing criminal,” Zach said. “Now, his family is a different story. On paper, they’re squeaky clean. But I started digging a little deeper. According to my contact at the CIA, they travel abroad quite a bit and have been seen socializing with associates of people on a terrorist watch list.”

“Really?” Not that he’d doubted what Tessa told him, but it was good to get another perspective. Zach was objective and his opinion on this would be invaluable.

“It gets better. Apparently, the McAllister family has been under surveillance for quite some time now. There was some kind of anonymous tip to authorities a little less than a year ago. Law officials haven’t been able to find any evidence against them, though.”

“Interesting.” That anonymous tip must have been from Tessa.

“Listen, Trent, I don’t know what your involvement is with this family,” Zach continued. “But my friend said that the people they’re suspected to have ties with are no joke. Apparently, there are two people associated with the family who’ve been found murdered. Again, there’s no evidence tying the McAllisters to the crimes. Both are still open homicide cases. But I don’t believe in coincidences.”

Tension returned to Trent’s shoulders, even stronger than before. He’d known these men were dead serious and lethal, but Zach only confirmed it. If those men captured them, he and Tessa would both soon be dead.

“What can you tell me about the murders?”

“The first was a delivery driver. One of the McAllister galleries was on his route. Name was Frank Webber. The other man worked at a bank. There’s no direct correlation to the family, only that he played a game of golf with Walter McAllister once.

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