The Prosecutor by Nichole Severn

Author:Nichole Severn [Severn, Nichole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2021-01-08T16:33:54+00:00

GRAVITY DUG ITS CLAWS into her muscles.

Madison reached for the marshal she’d trusted to save her a split second before her kidnapper pushed her over the side of Benson Bridge. The tops of the trees ringed her vision as she stared up in the sky, her scream cut off by the thundering beat of the falls six hundred feet below.

Seconds distorted into a full minute as the world slowed. She was falling, with no chance of survival once she hit the river.

“No!” Jonah had been running toward her, but he’d been too late.

She stretched out both hands, her fingers skimming down cold steel and concrete as panic charged through her. Her fingers spasmed at contact of the inner arch beneath the bridge, and Madison latched on for dear life. She’d caught herself. Her bare feet swung beneath the bridge—back and forth—as momentum and gravity combined forces to pull her free. The edge cut into her hand as she tried to adjust her grip on the frame, but she wouldn’t be able to hold on for long. She wasn’t strong enough. Her bulging belly brushed against the girder as she set her head back between her arms. Hot tears slipped down her face and into her hairline, immediately cooling with the help of the wall of water below her. “Jonah!”

The sob clawing up her throat was swept away in the rush of freezing water. He couldn’t hear her, couldn’t see her without looking directly over the bridge. There were two other arches to her right. If she could swing her feet onto one of them, she could slide across the girder to the rocks on the other side.

Her fingers were losing friction as water collected on the underside of the bridge. She adjusted her grip, kicking wildly to push momentum up her body and into her hands. Reverberations pounded through her from the bridge. She stared straight up and caught sight of two outlines throwing fists as the sun dipped beyond the horizon. Shadows chased across her vision from the dwindling light.

Jonah landed a hard right kick to her attacker’s chest, forcing the masked bomber who’d taken her toward the center of the bridge. He blocked an incoming kick to his shin but failed to dodge the solid punch to the right side of his face. Her abductor followed through with an elbow into Jonah’s head, and her marshal slammed into the side of the bridge above her. “Madison, hang on! I’m coming for you!”

Her abductor’s shadow solidified behind the marshal. Dying sunlight glinted off a small piece of steel.

“Jonah, look out!” Her right hand tensed around the steel support girder as she loosened her left to reach for him, but she couldn’t reach him.

Jonah straightened, his head thrown back onto his shoulders, as the steel disappeared into his side. His guttural scream cut through the constant pound of water on rock below and echoed off the rocks around her.

“No!” Her blood ran cold as he stumbled back, out of sight. Madison blinked through the mist of water sticking to her face, but she couldn’t see him.

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