Partners in Crime Part 2 by Alicia Scott

Author:Alicia Scott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Josie gave up on fumbling with the back door handle. She kicked out with her feet, hitting the door with as much force as she could muster. The left side didn’t budge. Powered by adrenaline and pure desperation, she attacked the right side. It must have already been jarred open by the crash because it burst open immediately. She tumbled out into the grass, glancing over her shoulder.

The blonde was approaching steadily. Her big black gun was already poised.

Josie searched frantically for an escape. If she plunged forward, the ravine eventually opened into a full hillside covered with trees. Perhaps the tall fields of grass would offer her protection.

And Jack and Stone? They were still slumped over in the front seat, unconscious and vulnerable.

The blonde could walk right up to them and end it with two quick pulls of the trigger, just the way it was done in the movies. That quick. That simple.

“Think, Josie, think. Brilliance would be good right about now.”

Unfortunately, her brain was taking a momentary vacation to avoid such pleasantries as fear, pain and imminent death.

She settled for moving. She raced around the back of the car and opened Jack’s door in one smooth swoop, ducking behind the door for cover. The approaching woman looked right at her, her expression cool and remote. She didn’t say anything, she didn’t pause. She just kept descending, slow and steady.

And Josie understood that the woman also knew her targets were immobile—she knew she had plenty of time.

Josie yanked the dart out of Jack’s neck, gripped his shoulders, and shook him hard.

“Come on, Jack. Wake up for me.”

Jack moaned, his eyes still closed. The blonde appeared just twenty feet away. Now she stopped. Now she leveled her strange, long-barreled gun.

Josie’s brain finally fired to life. She grabbed for Jack’s revolver.

“No, dammit,” he groaned. His fingers wrapped reflexively around her wrist, trying to protect his gun. They wrestled for the weapon like children while the neighborhood assassin took aim.

“I’m trying to save your miserable hide!” Josie muttered through gritted teeth. “Now, give it here!”

His fingers abruptly loosened. She pulled the gun out of the holster triumphantly, already fumbling with the safety thing and thinking that the gun was much too big and much too loud and she was going to get them all killed.

The handcuff slapped around her left wrist abruptly. The following click brought her gaze to Jack’s right wrist, where he’d just joined them in unholy matrimony. Even as she watched, he tossed the key out into the deep grass.

“Kill me and you’re trapped,” he murmured thickly. His blue eyes, heavy-lidded and glazed, still held a determined gleam.

“You stupid fool—oh, my God!”

A whistling sound emitted. Josie ducked and something whizzed by her ear. She stared up an inch to see a needle sticking out of the rubber molding around the window. The woman had opened fire with a tranquilizer gun. And Josie was willing to bet those needles contained something a little more potent than the one she’d pulled out of Jack’s neck.

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