Claimed by the Secret Agent by Lyn Stone

Author:Lyn Stone [Stone, Lyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Mystery, Thrillers, Suspense, Romance, Romantic Suspense, Mystery & Suspense
Amazon: B00994N1MW
Publisher: Mills & Boon Intrigue
Published: 2012-09-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

G rant followed Marie down to the car and listened to her excited directions as she guided him through the outskirts of Gouda to the road that led east.

He had to shift his focus to the case, but he had trouble doing it. So Marie wasn’t ready to acknowledge what had happened between them, much less discuss it. He could wait. Unless she came down with a galloping case of total amnesia, he knew she wouldn’t forget it.

It wasn’t ego that made him know that. In fact, he felt pretty humbled by the whole experience. He could understand her shock. They’d known each other for less than forty-eight hours. Apparently that was all it took in his case. He’d like to believe it was only the power of suggestion, triggered by recalling his dad’s similar experience when he’d met Grant’s mother, but he knew better. Marie was the one.

Now she was his, at least in his own mind and heart, and he now had the forever responsibility of keeping her safe and protected. She wouldn’t abide by an order that she sit this one out, though. He had a bad feeling about her coming along, but he’d just have to stay between her and danger and hope for the best.

“So, old Dr. Shute is dead and someone’s still picking up his mail in town. A relative, maybe? Or has someone taken over his identity?” Marie asked. “This could be headquarters for the Hoofstads, or a satellite group.”

“I guess we’ll find out,” Grant surmised. “It would be a perfect setup, but we can’t jump to any conclusions. It’s a fairly safe assumption that the mail was once delivered out there. Then someone changed that by renting a box in town and using Shute’s name. Could be a relative. We need more information about the clinic and what its purpose was. An interview with Pieter’s grandfather would be helpful. We probably should have done that before checking out the place.”

“There’s the time factor,” Marie reminded him. “Cynthia Rivers could be killed while we run around asking questions. What if she’s being held there? As soon as the kidnappers realize there’ll be no ransom for her, she’s had it.”

Grant couldn’t argue that. “How do we find the turnoff?”

“It’s the fourth road to the left. I’m counting. How do you think the old grandfather knew about the place? The directions are roughly drawn but pretty explicit for all that. I wonder what sort of clinic it was.”

“Could be anything. Tuberculosis was rampant before and after World War II, so it could be a sanatorium. Or mental-health facility. Home for unwed mothers. Too far out of town to be a regular doctor’s practice. Doesn’t really matter what it was, only what it is now and who’s living there.”

“How do we go in?” She was too antsy, almost bouncing in her seat. Her eagerness to get that clerk to safety could jeopardize everything if she didn’t calm down.

“We don’t go in,” Grant told her. “We’re scoping it out, that’s all.

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