Shadows and Silk by Liliana Hart

Author:Liliana Hart [Hart, Liliana]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: C429, Kat, Extratorrents, MacKenzie#6
ISBN: 9781481809924
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2012-12-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

An hour later, Brant started to get a tingle in his gut that maybe things weren’t going to go according to plan.

Their driver and bodyguard were the two agents who’d accompanied them on the flight into Mexico—named Smith and Huxley—and they were both armed to the teeth.

Brant was starting to wish he’d brought along some more artillery himself. By the way that Smith was gripping the wheel in a white-knuckled grasp, Brant thought maybe his gut might be tingling too.

He’d worked with Huxley before, and he knew that he and Declan were actually really good friends. In fact, Declan had been best man at Huxley’s wedding. But Brant had never seen Smith before, and working with someone new was a crapshoot. He had to trust that Declan wouldn’t have sent anything but his best to protect his sister.

Darcy sat calmly beside him on the way into Chiapas, reading over her notes from the glyphs they’d discovered and re-examining the pictures. The drive had been straightforward—the highway turning into a one-lane dirt road the closer they got to the ruins where the glyphs had been discovered—but the place felt abandoned when there should have been tourists roaming the shops along the road or hiking their way up to the ruins. Granted, it was October, and high season was long past, but there still should have been someone.

“I don’t like this,” he said as they pulled past a sign that said the ruins were closed to the public because of crumbling rock. A couple of temporary wooden barriers had been erected, but nothing that looked permanent.

“That’s odd,” Darcy commented. “I’ve been to these ruins hundreds of times, and this is the first time I’ve seen them closed.”

“The sign was placed there by the local police two days ago,” Smith said. “They didn’t give a reason other than safety issues, but they said it would reopen by the end of the week.”

“Has the site been cleared by our guys?” Brant asked.

“Shane’s SEAL Team was called away to the latest kidnapping site before they could do more than slip in and out to photograph the glyphs and send them to Dr. MacKenzie. Max wasn’t able to get any of his agents in either without rousing suspicion, so they’ve held back.”

“So we’re on our own?” Brant asked.

“We have a satellite shot, and there’s been no suspicious activity in the last two days. There are two undercover DEA agents in the village, but we’re only to signal them in case of emergency so their covers aren’t blown. Declan said to give him and Max about half an hour to come around from the opposite direction. They’ll be your cover from the back.”

“Half an hour,” he said, blowing out a breath. “I hope we don’t need them sooner.”

“Huxley and I will guard the front side, so you can protect Darcy while she’s studying the glyphs. Boss man says she’s your priority.”

“I know what the hell my priorities are,” he growled. “But you’ll excuse me for being paranoid, especially since my neck’s been itching for the last forty-five minutes.

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