Not If I Save You First by Ally Carter

Author:Ally Carter [Carter, Ally]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2018-05-05T04:00:00+00:00

Dear Logan,

Forgive me for not writing for several days. You see, I’ve been extremely busy with my new, oh-so-exciting life. See?

Things to do in Alaska:

-chop wood

-catch fish

-clean fish

-haul wood

-catch some more fish

-try not to get eaten, smashed, burned, poisoned, or just, in general, die

Seriously, trying not to die in Alaska is kind of a full-time job.

Maddie

Logan stared at where Maddie stood, in the center of a bridge that looked like it should have already fallen based on the weight of the snow and the ice alone. Much less with Maddie’s weight. Much less with his.

“Logan, it’s okay!” she called to him. “Just do what I said.”

He heard her words again: From this moment on, step exactly where I step.

There were things the Secret Service agents had to teach him, back when he was a kid and his dad was just a candidate—back when no one assumed they knew him. Back when Maddie really did.

The first lesson they teach a protectee is that, if an agent says duck, you duck. If an agent says run, you run. You don’t stop for questions. You never, ever say What? Because in the time it takes you to stop and say that single word, a sniper can strike from a thousand yards away. It’s the protectee’s job to follow directions and then get out of the way and let the professionals do their jobs.

Maybe it was that training coming back to him. Or maybe it was the look in Maddie’s eyes when she asked Logan to trust her. Logan swore right then that he never wanted to disappoint Maddie ever again. He owed her that much at least. He was going to mirror her movements exactly, even if he was at least fifty pounds heavier than she was. In the part of his brain that was always thinking, analyzing, calculating, Logan knew that just because a board was strong enough to hold her there was no guarantee that it would be strong enough to hold him. But it was as good a place as any to start.

He inched toward the bridge and paused to look down at the icy ground in front of him. It had been blowing and swirling all day and something like a drift covered the mouth of the bridge. But it wasn’t so deep he had to wade.

“Remember! Be careful,” she shouted. And something in Logan knew—just knew—that it was the remember that mattered.

Be ready, she’d said.

But ready for what?

There was only one way to find out.

Logan’s footprints dwarfed Maddie’s as he stepped into her tracks and moved slowly toward the bridge.

He could still feel Stefan behind him, on Logan’s right, where he had an angle on both of his captives. He kept the gun trained on Logan as he matched Maddie’s big step onto the mouth of the bridge, mirroring her in every way. But his hands were still cuffed in front of him, and he could only hang on to one side.

When he slipped on a slick board it was harder than it should have been to catch himself.

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