Capture Me by Helena Newbury

Author:Helena Newbury [Newbury, Helena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Foster & Black
Published: 2023-09-28T18:30:00+00:00

36

TANYA

Colton sat in brooding silence. He was a huge ox of a man but in that moment, he looked helpless. Lost. Broken. And I cursed myself for ever having come into his life and messed everything up.

At last, he spoke. “Tell me you’re being straight with me,” he said quietly. He didn’t look at me. His eyes were on the door, on his friends outside. “Tell me you’re telling the truth and the whole country’s going to hell if we don’t stop this thing.” He turned to me. “Because if you’re lying to me, if you make me go against those guys and it’s all a trick, so help me God, I’ll kill you.”

I swallowed. “I’m being straight with you.”

I waited for him to ask whether what we had was real, too. I was ready to tell him yes, it was. But he didn’t ask. Maybe he didn’t dare.

He bowed his head and closed his eyes. Sucked in a long breath. Then his shoulders squared and all his strength and size seemed to return. “Alright then,” he said to himself.

He’d committed to it. He was going to let me go. I should have been punching the air but all I could think about was how much trouble he was going to be in. Since when did I care about anyone else? “I can hit you with something, knock you out,” I offered. “You can say I jumped you. Let me go see if the window in the bathroom is big enough for me to get through…” I motioned for him to let me out of the booth.

But he just sat there, blocking my way. “That ain’t gonna work. JD’s not dumb, he’ll have Bradan or Cal or someone watching the back of the bar. And Steward’s on his way here, with another bunch of guys. You won’t even make it out of town.” He sighed. “Not on your own.”

I froze. Chyort! He wasn’t just talking about letting me go. I shook my head. “No. Colton, no. No!”

“I’ve seen Maravić in action,” he said. Those amber-brown eyes burned into mine. “You go up against him alone, he’ll kill you. I’m not letting that happen.”

“I’m a fugitive! I’m a foreign spy! If you go with me, you’ll be a traitor. They’ll arrest you. They could shoot you!”

His jaw set and I moaned under my breath because I knew what that look meant. He’d dug his heels in and nothing was going to change his mind. “Better grab your backpack,” he told me.

Chyort! I grabbed the backpack and followed him to the door.

The one he called JD was right outside. He blinked when he saw me standing close behind Colton. “Everything okay?” he asked, his eyes flicking between Colton and me.

“Sorry, boss,” Colton told him. “But I need you to step out of the way.”

JD’s face fell. “Colton, buddy,” he pleaded. “Come on now, don’t do something stupid.” He raised his voice towards the end to get the others’ attention. They came running over: the British one, the Irish one, and the one whose ear I’d shot.

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