Burned: Black Cipher Files #3 (Black Cipher Files series) by Lisa Hughey

Author:Lisa Hughey [Hughey, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Lisa Hughey
Published: 2014-10-19T22:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Five

I had no idea how I ended up here.

There didn’t seem to be one single decision that landed me on the run with a man I barely knew. Rather, a series of small changes in my normal method of dealing with life put me squarely in brand new, uncharted territory.

Zeke had asked me to drive his car. And because I thought driving would give me a measure of control over the out of control that had spiraled since he answered his phone, I’d agreed.

So now I was driving a high end SUV. The Range Rover was bigger than what I was used to maneuvering and I swear I was driving like an old lady.

“You can probably pick it up a notch. Won’t hurt to go a whole twenty miles an hour.” I didn’t want to take my eyes off the road, but I was pretty sure he was smirking.

I ignored him.

“Turn left at the next light and then pull into that self-storage facility.”

I glanced in the rearview mirror, his obvious paranoia was starting to rub off on me.

“I can’t go into the office of the storage company. I’m going to need you to do it for me.” Zeke said, “Do you think you can?”

I was quiet. Storage facility? Burned? NSA, sleeper cells, treason? When had my boring, unassuming life become a spy novel?

“Sunshine?”

“Yeah.”

“I need to secure my laptop,” Zeke said softly. “There’s too much sensitive information on it, even though there isn’t anything classified, of course.”

And geez, I wanted to bail. But instead, I turned the car into the storage company parking lot, and parked in the spot closest to the office. Zeke was slouched in the passenger seat, a Billabong cap on his head, blocking his face from view. “What do you want me to do?”

“Rent the smallest unit you can, pay in cash if possible, and rent under Sunshine Smith. They’ll be looking for a rental in my name.”

It all seemed a little crazy to me. “Why are you storing your laptop?”

“GPS tracker.”

Zeke barely moved his mouth and my gaze zeroed in on his lips and I remembered what he’d done with his mouth last night. Wow. I needed to shut that down right away.

“I disabled it at the hotel, but I need to get rid of it. Just in case.”

I pulled on the door handle.

“Wait. Here.” He pulled an odd-shaped lock and key from his worn duffel bag and pressed it into my hand.

I curled my fingers around the cool metal, my fingers tingled at the fleeting, innocuous contact, and I was a little breathless as I told him, “Be back in a sec.”

“To be clear. We need to get this locked up and get gone.”

I was trying not to be totally annoyed. And I wondered how he had convinced me to stick with him and do this, but the truth was that his freak out while he was on the phone earlier had touched off an unexpected protectiveness in me.

I’d taken care of my mother for years.

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