Runaway Witness by Maggie K. Black

Author:Maggie K. Black
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-11-07T19:32:27+00:00

NINE

Ten minutes. The words seemed to echo in the dark woods around them. She had nothing—no plan, no vehicle, no money and nothing but the clothes on her back. It was freezing cold, they were up to their knees in snow in the middle of nowhere, and now, Mack had told her they were ten minutes away from losing their only contact with the outside world.

She closed her eyes and prayed.

Lord, I am so lost, I don’t even know what to do.

The deep murmur of Mack’s voice made her open her eyes. His phone was to his ear, and he was talking to someone quickly. “Yup... Got it... Will do... Talk to you then... You, too.”

He ended the call, turned off the phone and with it their final remaining sliver of light. With the light of the truck and camper now gone, pinpricks of starlight spread out above her.

“So, here’s the deal,” Mack said. “Seth doesn’t know how the Jackals found us. Liam and Jess are on their way to meet up with us, but that will take hours and we need to keep moving. Both in case the Jackals come back and also because it’s only going to get colder. Seth’s identified a motel about a forty-minute walk from here. The route is mostly back roads, which he thinks should reduce the risk of being spotted by drivers. We’ll walk along the tree line. Seth and I have agreed that I’ll turn on my phone every fifteen minutes, so he can map where we are on the GPS. It’s almost one thirty in the morning now. Liam and Jess hope to reach us by five.”

So, in four and a half hours then. And then what would happen? She had nothing left. In the past few hours since spotting Mack in the diner, even the false sense of hope, safety and direction that had kept her going for so long had been taken from her. She had no choice but to go into witness protection now.

“Also,” Mack added, “I’m down to two bullets with no way to reload for now. But don’t worry. It’ll all be fine.”

Fine. The word rolled around in her head as they walked. It wasn’t good, but fine was all she had left.

They trudged onward and upward through the trees until they hit a road. They followed it, sticking close to the tree line and dropping flat to the ground whenever they heard a vehicle approaching. They walked in near silence, barely even making small talk. Despite the brief and spontaneous moment of closeness, now things were awkward again, as if neither of them knew what to say.

She wondered if he regretted kissing her. Maybe. But she didn’t. Yes, it had been foolish, sudden and unexpected. They’d be saying goodbye in a matter of hours. She’d go into witness protection and Mack would be disappearing out of her life into another undercover assignment, and she’d try to rebuild her life somewhere. Yet, she didn’t regret the

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