Poison Kisses Part 1 by Jones Lisa Renee

Author:Jones, Lisa Renee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2018-02-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Amanda and I make our way through the foliage beneath the Filbert Steps, and she moves with such agility that you’d never know she was in a skirt and flimsy flats, but then, she’s been trained since she was born to live the life of an agent. To overcome. And while my training might not have begun until I was recruited to the agency in college, training is exactly why I hold my arm above my heart to slow the blood flow with one primary concern: a trail of blood will get us killed. And today is not a good day to die.

The path out of the woods is a short half a mile, and Amanda and I stop within the wooded line, squatting down side by side. Together, we survey the hill before us that leads to a presently unpopulated, small grassy area below. “If we go left or right, we’ll be on neighborhood streets,” Amanda says. “If we go straight ahead, there’s another short set of steps that will lead us to the pier, where we can blend in with the crowd.”

“We need a car and the pier means cameras.”

“My neighbor is retired and he parks his SUV in the drive between our houses,” she says, rotating to face me, as I do the same to her.

“He never leaves the house,” she adds. “He won’t even know it’s gone for days.”

“It’s a good plan, but that means a two-mile walk, and time is not our friend. We need to get moving.” I start to move and she grabs my leg, our eyes colliding with the connection.

“You can’t make that long walk. It’s going to make your heart pump and that means blood. Lots of blood.”

“The belt is holding,” I say. “And your plan is a good one.”

“The trolley stops down by the pier.” She eyes her watch. “The next one is in seven minutes. It’ll drop us off right at the edge of my neighborhood.”

“Trolley it is,” I say, rotating forward, with her doing the same. “Stay behind me as we exit the woods,” I order. “I’ll move you to the front once I’m certain we’re clear.”

“You mean if you don’t get shot again.”

I face her again to find that she’s already facing me. “Don’t worry, sweetheart. I don’t intend to die before you get the chance to try to kill me. But let me be clear of one thing before we go on. You might be the only person who can save hundreds of thousands of people if Franklin releases that toxin in the water supply, but if I die and you don’t help them, I swear to you, woman, I will come back from the grave and haunt your ass.”

“You know I wouldn’t let those people die.”

“I don’t know the woman who ran from her duty,” I say. “And I won’t make the mistake of thinking that I do again.”

“I didn’t—”

“My arm is seeping. Let’s do this before I can’t get on that trolley. Exit behind me.

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