Pursuit by Karen Robards

Author:Karen Robards
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Washington (D.C.), Traffic Accident Investigation, Women Lawyers, Legal, Fiction, Romance, Suspense, Crimes Against, Adultery, Thrillers, Presidents' Spouses, Espionage, Conspiracies
ISBN: 0399155422
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2009-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

19

This will help you go back to sleep, sugar.

That’s what the person in the too-small scrubs with the suit pants and shiny black shoes showing below them had said just moments before he tried to kill her.

She’d just heard the same endearment again, in the same voice with the same intonation.

As Jess faced the truth of that, her heart pounded so hard it felt like it was trying to beat its way out of her chest.

The person who wanted to kill her was here. He was, as she had suspected from the beginning, a Secret Service agent, one of Ryan’s supposedly “good” Secret Service agents who were downstairs right now with a mandate to protect her.

The ringing in her ears subsided enough so that her hearing came back.

“. . . two scrambled eggs, then. With sausage.”

“If you’re cooking, I’m eating. I’ll have the same thing.”

“ ’ Fraid I’m all out of sausage.” That voice was Ryan’s. She would recognize it anywhere. He was down there, too. With them.

One of them. He ’d lied about the results of the testing on her IV bag. At least, until she had called him on it.

“You got bacon, then?”

“Should have.” Ryan again. “Check the fridge and see.”

There was a reply, but it was muffled so that she couldn’t quite make out the words. Probably the speaker was heading for the kitchen.

Jess didn’t wait to hear anything more. Moving very, very quietly, she headed back to the bedroom and shut the door. Curse the luck, it didn’t have a lock.

For a long moment, she simply stood in the pitch dark with her back pressed to the door, trying to slow her breathing, trying to calm her pounding heart, processing what she’d heard while panic surged icy cold through her veins.

What do I do?

Going running to Ryan was obviously out. First, the scale had again dipped drastically in favor of not trusting him. And second, he was down there with the others.

Every instinct she possessed shrieked that she needed to get out of that house as soon as possible. Before Shiny Shoes, as she was going to call him, got a chance to try to kill her again.

Maybe they were all in on it. Even Ryan.

At the thought, she broke out in a cold sweat and her breathing grew ragged.

She didn’t know. She had no way of knowing. All she knew was that she recognized that “sugar”—and that was enough.

I have to get out of here.

The thought brought another surge of panic with it.

The good news was, they all thought she was asleep. It would be an hour, maybe an hour and a half, until dawn, so she’d have darkness to cover her escape. Probably no one would even consider checking in on her before eight at the earliest. At the minimum, she had about three hours to put as much distance between herself and them as possible.

Where do I go?

Her mouth went dry as she realized she had no idea. She couldn’t go back to her apartment: Even if Grace wasn’t there, it was the first place anyone would look.

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