Expired Hero by Lisa Phillips

Author:Lisa Phillips
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: spy novel, christian romantic suspense, christian fiction series, small town suspense and mystery
Publisher: Lisa Phillips

Twenty

“You probably think I’m just being childish, ignoring him and latching onto you.”

Zander held the passenger door of a huge SUV open. He hadn’t even rolled up the garage door, which comforted her. She figured, as a protection specialist, he knew what he was doing.

“Why are you trusting me?”

Kaylee raised her eyebrows in surprise. He really didn’t know. “You live with them. They respect you.” Kaylee shrugged. “That’s good enough for me. Especially considering we won’t be gone more than half an hour.”

Zander tipped his head to the side. She figured that meant, “fair enough,” and then she asked, “How much do you charge for this kind of thing anyway?”

That got her a reaction. As she hauled herself onto the front seat, Zander said, “Five hundred an hour.”

He shut the door on her coughing and sputtering. When he got in the driver’s side, she said, “Five hundred?”

“Saving lives doesn’t come cheap.”

“Wow.”

“My insurance rates are a nightmare.”

Kaylee just blinked. “Well, thank you.”

“You’re welcome.”

“Are you going to send me an invoice later?”

He hit the button on the visor for the garage door and started the engine. “Not to you.”

She twisted to stare him down, her fingers freezing on the seatbelt buckle. “Who is paying for my protection?”

“Stuart.” He shot her a look like she should’ve figured that out.

“Great.” She straightened. He pulled out of the garage. “Now I feel even more like a jerk.”

“You stood your ground, and it made you feel like a jerk?”

She shrugged one shoulder.

“Huh.”

Kaylee watched the roadside as he drove. Even though she was probably completely justified being mad at Stuart, she couldn’t help feeling sympathetic. He’d gone through something insane. It had nearly broken him.

Of anyone, she knew what that felt like.

One night, after a movie, her parents had been shot by a man who had left her alive. To this day, she didn’t know why. She never would, considering he was dead now. Brad had killed him. If he’d found the reason she’d been left alive, he hadn’t told her what it was.

She pulled out the cold case file, trying to settle her thoughts with facts that encompassed zero emotion. After reading for a minute, she glanced at him. “I just don’t like this whole Trina thing. I mean she’s gone off the deep end, and for what? A shot at the flash drive? There’s no way I’m going to give it to her, and now the cops are looking for her. Where is she going to hide?”

“If she has half a brain, she’s in Mexico by now.”

Was Trina that smart? Kaylee had the feeling her “friend” was a completely different person than she’d previously thought. And now she was faced with the reality that maybe she didn’t know one single true thing about her, even though they’d known each other ever since Kaylee first started working at the bank.

“Maybe it’s her dad,” Kaylee said. “Hopefully Basuto questions him and figures it out. Because if he did something to her, that’s important to know.”

“You think all evil is a result of people who have those actions forced on them.

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