Stealing Twilight by Erin Richards

Author:Erin Richards [Richards, Erin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Psychic Justice Book 3
Publisher: Midnight Muse Publishing
Published: 2018-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

The moment Lily stepped over the threshold into the garage, prickles skated up the back of her neck. The brown tarp-wrapped bundle had vanished.

“Uh…Jake? Did the Guild already handle our problem?”

In his he-man protective role, Jake shoved in front of her, blocking her view of everything except his fine backside. “No. Shut the door and stay here.”

He retreated to case the exterior. She drew her gun, snuck outside, and combed for footprints in the mud. She found Jake following a set of heavy, slogging prints leading toward the greenbelt.

Ire riding the air, Jake nailed her with a wrinkly glare. She slid her shamrock pendant back and forth on its chain, reached for her pin, realizing she hadn’t worn it that day. Luck wasn’t on her side. Or was it? “I checked his pulse. I thought he was dead.”

He marched to the front of the garage, toed a broken stick on the ground. “Another set of prints.”

“You think his allies snagged him?” Niggling doubts and the laws of self-defense left her feeling like she was crawling out of her skin. Leaves swirled around her in a sudden gust, blowing her guilt into the wind.

“Yep. Let’s beat it.”

Lily clambered into the sun-warmed SUV and placed her briefcase on the floor between her legs. After Jake slid into the driver’s seat, she asked, “Do you think our mystery guests will try to break in while we’re gone?”

“We’ll know when we return.” He reversed the vehicle onto the road. They’d traveled less than a mile when Jake said, “Don’t look back. We’re being tailed by a white pickup.”

In the side mirror, she spied the truck two blocks behind them. “Fan-friggin-tastic.”

“Maybe we ought to skip the bank?”

“No,” she said vehemently. “I don’t want to wait. We need to get out of Tahoe, and I’m not leaving without—”

“They’ll know you’re retrieving the chalice and jewels.” Jake approached a stop sign, and the white truck slowed a few hundred yards behind them.

“Let them.”

“Why gamble yourself?” He pounded his fist on the steering wheel.

“Why do you think? I need to get my hands on them. I need to understand why everyone’s hunting the collection, what power it holds. It’s time Twilight saw the light of dawn.”

“It’s too risky if it’s at the bank.”

“Are you afraid you can’t protect me? Or the collection?” The truck behind them maintained a steady distance. She studied Jake’s profile, a muscle ticking in his right jaw.

He heaved out a sigh. “You have your gun?”

She snagged the nine-millimeter out of her purse, flicked the safety off, then slid it back in. “Never party without it. Detour the bank and park at one of the big casinos.” She spied the bank ahead, sitting between a towering hotel casino and a fancy strip mall. The first large casino sat a block up the street. “Park at that one.” She pointed to the shimmery, glass-fronted building, the parking lot half-empty before the weekend crowd.

“You sure about this?” Jake swung to the right into the evergreen-lined parking lot behind the building, pulling into the first available spot.

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