Running Target by Elizabeth Goddard

Author:Elizabeth Goddard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-02-01T18:05:53+00:00

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The morning was getting away from him and all he’d managed to do was hole up in a cheap motel. No need to stay in the woods—that cover had been compromised. Plus, disappearing from that area would mean the men after him would leave as well, and no more deputies would be in danger as they continued their searches. Unfortunately, Jones’s men remained in Coldwater Bay waiting on Bree to turn him over one way or another.

Quinn stared at the cell on the table, considering all the possible scenarios and outcomes. He hadn’t recovered the backpack and her picture, but things had escalated anyway. The pack, her picture, didn’t matter anymore.

They knew.

Michael Jones knew.

Bree was important to Quinn. She’d already been threatened. And Quinn should have stopped this long before that.

He thought about the call he needed to make to his boss, Stan Rollins, at the DEA. He never intended for things to go this far. For anyone to be caught in the middle or hurt.

He thought back to that moment he’d been about to step out of his car to meet up with his “friends”—those he’d befriended during his time undercover within the drug trafficking organization. A transfer of a half a million dollars’ worth of drugs was going to take place. His job wasn’t to arrest anyone but to report back—they wanted enough information and evidence to bring down the whole organization. That kind of operation took years. Unfortunately, he discovered another agent, Declan Miller, and suspected he wasn’t playing by the rules. Declan worked directly under Michael Jones, who was only a leader over the New Orleans region. Quinn suspected Declan, who had moved up in the ranks, was taking money and drugs for himself. Unfortunately, Declan was related to a higher-up in the DEA.

That didn’t work out in Quinn’s favor.

And maybe...just maybe, that had been the whole reason he’d been assigned to work undercover—someone had suspected Declan had gone to the dark side, but they wouldn’t suggest it, considering the man’s connections. Just plant another agent within the organization and hope that eventually the truth would come out.

Seconds before Quinn was about to exit his car, he received a text from a DEA informant that Quinn had been made.

His cover had been blown.

He’d sat in his vehicle, weighing his options. Who knew? Everyone? It seemed clear that Declan had ratted him out, but Quinn hadn’t been able to get evidence about everything Declan had done before he went on the run. Declan couldn’t continue working both sides of the law with another undercover agent in his backyard, so to speak. So get rid of Quinn and Declan was safe.

In his gut, Quinn had known that if he walked in, he wouldn’t walk out alive.

The muzzle of a gun had pressed against the window of his car door, aiming at his head, at the same moment he’d shifted into Reverse. He peeled out and away from the parking lot, escaping.

Images of that day accosted him. He’d barely escaped with his life.

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