Ready, Aim...I Do!: Missing by Debra Webb

Author:Debra Webb
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-09-20T04:00:00+00:00

Las Vegas Strip, 9:24 p.m.

IT SURPRISED HER to be nervous now, standing here in the club line as sniper bait, when she hadn’t been nervous before in too many situations just like this to list. Not to mention she hadn’t really been nervous when she’d proposed.

Oh God, she had.

Gin took a deep breath and reminded herself to focus. Jason was up there somewhere, ready to spring their trap on Frost. She trusted him completely to manage that before the notoriously accurate sniper ended her life for real this time. She had to believe Jason would prevail, couldn’t bear the idea that she’d fallen in love only to die in the line of duty before she had a chance to enjoy it.

She had to believe she’d see him tomorrow.

Scanning the crowded line for a glimpse of Wallace, or whomever Frost might have been forced to help him misdirect the investigators who would be saddled with this crime, she was as surprised as everyone else when a neon sign across the street burst into a showy display of sparks.

People stared upward, but Gin sheltered her eyes and watched for anything out of place around her. She spotted the blond woman scurrying to catch a taxi across the street and smothered a shocked cry when she fell to the ground.

Had Jason taken that shot? No. He was a professional. But Gin knew the plan, knew Jason was on one of the rooftops on her side of the Strip taking aim at Frost—if he’d located him—who would be eyeing the crowd around her.

Police cars and emergency vehicles screamed to a stop in front of the Palace and fanned out. A helicopter lit up the rooftops on her side of the Strip with a roving spotlight until it found its target and held steady.

She sighed, moving with the crowd and squinting up at the lights and drama going on overhead. Of course, she realized it now. Jason had tricked her, and he’d done it so smoothly that she could only give him bonus points.

His assignment after the Riviera must not have been Paris after all. By putting her here, he’d effectively put her out of Frost’s reach while he’d gone hunting on his own. She didn’t like it, but she had to admit he’d been damn clever about it.

A voice barked orders from the helicopter, but here on the ground with the clamoring crowd, the words were impossible to make out. She could only imagine what was going on up there on the rooftop.

Suddenly the spotlight went dark, thanks to a bullet from Frost no doubt, but she caught the two muzzle flashes from the rooftop of the casino just up the block from the Palace. Gin held her breath. Had Jason just put Frost out of commission? Likely with the same ammunition Wallace had tried to plant as evidence against him.

When nothing moved and no other shots were fired, she relaxed. Jason had done it. Wrapped his case with an elegant symmetry she appreciated despite her strong objection to his overprotective methods.

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