The Deputy's Witness by Tyler Anne Snell

Author:Tyler Anne Snell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-01-10T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Alyssa tried to slam the door shut, but the man was faster.

He closed the space between them in a flash, grabbing for her before she could scramble away. The commotion woke Sergeant from his sleep. He began barking as Alyssa began screaming.

“No need to be afraid,” Dupree huffed, catching her forearm and turning on the light with the other. Like the man, his hand was large. Overpowering. It wrapped around her like a vise she couldn’t escape.

She wanted to laugh at his comment, saying he’d shot her and gunned down two others and she had every right to be afraid of him. She wanted to break free from his grip, get something heavy, and make him feel at the very least an ounce of the pain he had caused her and everyone in the bank that day. She also wanted to grab her cell phone and call the cavalry in, guns blazing and ready to put down a man who seemed untouchable.

But all she could do was continue to scream in terror.

She’d spent the last year trying to overcome just the idea of the man. And now here he was, somehow managing to sneak into her house in the middle of the night.

It didn’t seem real.

It didn’t seem fair.

“You’re coming with me,” he grunted out, trying to contain her as she threw her body away from him. She tried to become deadweight in his grasp. She didn’t want to make anything easier on the man. “Whether you like it or—”

Something slammed into Dupree’s back so hard it caused his hold on her to break. However, the momentum of the hit sent both of them to the floor. Alyssa scurried backward until her back hit her nightstand. The lamp on it clattered to the floor just as she realized what had helped her escape Dupree’s grip.

“Caleb!”

Caleb Foster, in all his beautiful glory, picked himself up and readied to take her nightmare head-on.

“Run,” he managed to yell before Dupree was on his feet and in his face.

Alyssa didn’t have time to examine the situation any closer. Caleb grabbed the front of Dupree’s shirt and threw his weight into him again, hard. Together they went into the wall.

“Go—now!”

Alyssa didn’t want to leave Caleb alone with a man like Dupree. She’d seen the evil that he created—lived through it too. She didn’t want that for Caleb. She wanted to help the deputy to subdue and stop him, as a team.

“I’ll still get her,” Dupree growled. It was an awful sound, but it did the trick.

Thoughts of helping flew out of her mind. She got to her feet and ran for everything she was worth.

All Alyssa wanted to do in that moment was listen to Caleb and make sure Dupree never touched her again.

* * *

THE MAN WAS TALLER, more muscled, and had already found his second wind. However, Caleb had two things on him.

He put his arm up to block a punch Dupree threw and swung hard with a right cross. It connected with the man and he staggered.

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