Secret Bodyguard by B.J. Daniels

Author:B.J. Daniels [Daniels, B.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488030017
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2001-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

They drove through what little remained of the night, stopping only for gas for the van or coffee to stay awake. Amanda wasn’t the least bit sleepy. She watched the dark landscape blur past and thought of Susannah. Had it only been a little over three days since Susannah had been kidnapped? It seemed like weeks. She should have been holding her daughter in her arms right now, not traveling across the state of Texas with an undercover cop. She ached with the need.

She had cried so many tears, she felt as if the well had gone dry. Soon, she told herself. Soon, she would have her daughter. Only the next time, she wouldn’t let anything go wrong because she would be alone and in control of the trade. She had no intention of putting Susannah’s welfare in Jesse’s hands. Even if he was a cop.

That meant getting the ledger and that would mean getting rid of Jesse Brock—McCall, she corrected.

In the meantime, she had little choice but to go along with him. He had the ledger and her daughter’s life in his hands. Temporarily.

She felt a moment of guilt. She’d seen how desperately he’d wanted to take the ledger to the cops. But he hadn’t. And for that she was grateful. They still had a long way to go until she was contacted for another trade. Jesse might weaken. Or she might get the ledger away from him. A lot could happen.

She thought about what would happen after the trade. The new life she would make with Susannah. For Susannah. She clung to that.

“I think you should call your father.” It was the first thing Jesse had said in miles.

“You have to be kidding,” she said incredulous.

“And tell him what?”

“He might think you’ve been kidnapped.”

“You mean I haven’t?” she asked sarcastically.

“I’m serious. Tell him you’re all right. That you’re being held in protective custody for twenty-four hours.”

“You are serious,” she said studying him.

“He’s your father,” Jesse said. “He’ll be worried.”

She nodded, wondering just how worried her father would be as she pulled out her cell phone. Her father answered in the first ring. “It’s me.”

“Amanda, my God, I have been out of my mind with worry,” he said, sounding like he meant it.

“I’m sorry. It’s a long story. All I can tell you is that I’m all right.”

He was silent for a long moment.

She thought he might be crying. J. B. Crowe? She must be hallucinating from lack of sleep. “Don’t look for me, all right? I’ll call you in twenty-four hours. I’m…okay.” She hung up, shaken.

“Well?” Jesse asked.

“He took it well,” she said, wondering how many men he’d sent out trying to find her. Or if he’d do as she’d asked and call them off.

Jesse slowed the van at the Red River city limits sign and she wondered for the first time what they were doing here. It was the intensity of his expression as he drove into the dusty, little town that suddenly had her worried. What was this about?

He made a pass through town.

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