Scared Money (Savannah Martin Mysteries Book 13) by Jenna Bennett

Author:Jenna Bennett [Bennett, Jenna]
Language: eng
Format: azw, mobi, epub
Publisher: Magpie Ink
Published: 2016-10-11T04:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

‘Her’ turned out to be Carmen. It also turned out that she and Denise Seaver hadn’t flagged down a car after they escaped from the DOC van. They’d walked off the road and into the woods instead.

Rafe didn’t tell me any of that. I let him concentrate on driving, while I concentrated on hanging on. We got to mile marker 22 in record time. He’d probably managed to shave seven or eight minutes off the time it had taken me to get there. And we pulled off the road with a squeal of tires that kicked gravel in a thirty yard radius, and left the air smelling like burning rubber.

No one was around. The van was gone, and so was the crime scene crew and the young cop who had been directing traffic. Rafe turned off the car and got out. “C’mon. We gotta go on foot from here.”

I made my own way out of the car. “Is that what Carmen and Doctor Seaver did?”

He nodded. “The cops tracked them up the hill. They said it ain’t far. Half a mile, no more.”

I could manage half a mile, even in heels. But my determination to start considering sensible shoes grew stronger.

We hopped the guard rail—or Rafe hopped, while I clambered, with a little help—and then we started off into the trees.

It felt a lot longer than half a mile. It could be the gathering dark. The sun hadn’t set yet, but it was behind the hill, and I couldn’t really see where I was going. The ground was uneven, and I kept running into bushes and trees.

Rafe had no such problems. He could see in the dark, and was wearing boots with heavy soles. Even so, he managed to walk quietly. I was the one stumbling through the trees like a heroine in a horror movie. I’m sure I frustrated Rafe. I’m sure he wanted to get to where we were going as quickly as possible, and I was slowing him down. After a couple of minutes, he reached back and took my hand. “You doing all right?”

“I’m fine,” I panted. “But maybe I shouldn’t have come.”

“I didn’t give you a chance to say no. And I want you here.” He squeezed my hand.

I pushed on, feeling a little better.

Eventually—and it felt like a small eternity—we got to the other side of the hill, where there was a little holler. Too small to be a valley, but a depression between two other small hills. A track led up through the middle of it.

“C’mon.” He pulled me through the tall grass onto the dirt surface. “This’ll make it a little easier.”

It did. However— “You know, I’m only six months pregnant.”

Rafe nodded.

“Carmen was a lot farther along. And a lot smaller than me. And in labor. This must have been agony for her.”

“That’s prob’ly why they didn’t get farther,” Rafe said, and pointed.

Up ahead, on the side of the road, sat a little shack. It looked like it was at least a hundred years old, and on its last leg.

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