Cindy Gerard - [Bodyguards 03] by To the Brink

Author:To the Brink
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

16

“I’VE GOT ’EM.”

“Thank you, Jesus.” Dallas pressed a thumb and forefinger to his eyes as he listened to Manny on the SAT phone.

“Darcy contacted Manny,” Dallas told Amy in an aside.

His relief didn’t last all that long. Frowning, he held up a hand when Amy started to ask him for details.

He listened as Manny filled him in.

“Yeah. Wait. Let me get it turned on.” Dallas snagged his GPS tracking unit, flipped it on. “Okay. It’s on. Yeah. There it is. I’ve got a signal.”

Manny broke the rest of the news about Ethan’s wound and blood loss.

“The hell you will,” Dallas said. “I’m on the way.” He disconnected and started gathering gear.

“What? What’s happened?”

Dallas looked up into Amy’s anxious eyes. “Ethan took a round in the thigh. He’s lost a lot of blood. Evidently he passed out for a couple of hours, got a little disoriented. Anyway, Darcy figured out how to use the SAT phone—once she knew he had one—and made contact with Manny.”

“Is Darcy okay?”

“Yeah. Yeah, she’s fine. Ethan, though—not so much,” Dallas admitted, concern for his brother adding an edge to his urgency to get to him. “He’s not going to be able to get out of there on his own power. And Manny isn’t going to be able to carry him out.” Not even with the help of the boy Manny had told him about.

He met Amy’s eyes. They were more gray than blue and he knew she knew the score. Still, he pointed out the obvious. “You know I’ve got to go help them.”

“I’ll go, too.”

He shook his head. This was going to be hard. “You need to save your strength for the rest of the trip.”

“But—”

“You’d slow me down, Amy. I’m sorry. But that’s the bottom line.”

She gnawed furiously on her lower lip while he loaded up with extra ammo and tried not to think about how scared she was going to be waiting here all by herself.

“Look. You’re going to be all right. You’re well hidden—and this spot has already passed the tango test. But, just in case, I’m leaving this with you.”

He handed her the M-4.

She shook her head. “You’ll need that.”

“I’ve got plenty of firepower and I’m not leaving you without it. Now let me show you how to use it.”

Dallas walked her through the motions. “Got it?”

She gave him an absent nod.

“You’re going to be all right,” he insisted. “If I didn’t think so, I wouldn’t leave you here alone. Just lay low. Stay quiet and if any tangos chance by, keep your cool and they’ll never spot you. You know that, don’t you? Tell me you know that.”

Another slow nod.

“I’m sorry. I’m really sorry, but I’ve got to go. Anything you need, it’s probably in there.” He nodded toward his ALICE pack. “Help yourself.”

He checked his handgun. The 9mm Berretta was military issue and he’d been damn happy to get ahold of it. “Don’t look for us until later in the afternoon. Probably closer to dark. It’s going to be a long, rough trip.

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