Rachel Lee - Wildcard by Wildcard (v1.0)

Author:Wildcard (v1.0) [Wildcard]
Format: epub
Publisher: MIRA Books
Published: 2010-12-24T00:12:51.335000+00:00

Boise National Forest, Idaho

From what Renate had said in the truck, Tom had expected to wind up spending the next few days in a tent. Instead, she drove him to a lodge perched on a mountainside. Well stocked, almost sybaritic in its comforts, clearly designed as a men's hunting hangout… He looked around, shaking his head.

"I don't usually hide out in five-star lodgings."

"You'll be safe here," Renate said. "It's not hunting season, so nobody should come by, and I told the time-share people that we wanted it for a honeymoon."

"Brilliant. Of course, it's a solo honeymoon. Who pays your expense account, anyway?" He could just imagine the Bureau's response if he wanted to stay in a place like this at their expense.

"It's off-season."

That appeared to be the only answer she was going to give him.

She gave him a Glock 9 mm, a stack of clips, a pair of binoculars with night vision capabilities, and a shotgun with a box of shells.

"I thought you said this place was safe."

She gave him a crooked smile. "It is. But if I don't come back in forty-eight hours, you may need to go it on your own. If I don't come back, call this number."

He looked at the card she gave him. "Henley Griswold Importers?"

"Friends. They'll get you out of here."

If he hadn't been so stiff and sore, he might have tried to argue with her. The thing was, he knew perfectly well that he wasn't in good enough shape to be anything but a hindrance.

She went back out to the pickup, then returned with a metal briefcase. She set it before him, worked the combination and opened it up. A metal-cased computer lay inside.

"Here," she said. "You can keep busy with this. You'll find you can access more from here than from your computer at the Bureau."

"Modem?" He looked around.

"Wireless satellite uplink, encrypted."

He looked at her, for the first time getting a serious inkling of this woman's capabilities. She wasn't simply some rogue agent doing her own thing. She had a lot of power behind her, and a lot of money.

She suddenly smiled, as if she had read something on his face. "Don't worry, Law. We're the good guys."

"Law?" Then he remembered his new name: Lawton Caine. "You could at least have let me choose."

She was still laughing when she left.

Tom Lawton, alias Lawton Caine, listened to the roar of the pickup's engine as it faded away, leaving him alone in snowbound silence.

His head still felt as if someone were working it over with a sixteen-pound hammer.

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