Flashback by Wilson Gayle

Author:Wilson, Gayle [Wilson, Gayle]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin Intrigue
Published: 2011-08-01T05:00:00+00:00

JAKE HADN’T SAID much since they’d arrived at the scene. Intent on examining every part of the hole that had been tunneled out of the Mississippi clay, Eden hadn’t even noticed when he’d disappeared back up the primitive wooden ladder that allowed access to the earthen cavity. When she had asked Dean where he’d gone, the deputy had shrugged, but the grin on his face had told her he had his own ideas about that.

As soon as she emerged from the bunker, she spotted Jake standing apart from the crowd of deputies and agents who had gathered, despite the lateness of the hour. Fielding questions and comments as she walked, Eden approached him, aware that their meeting would be watched with interest by the assembly.

“What do you think?”

“She was here.”

“You’re sure.”

He nodded, the gray eyes bleak.

“Is this where he brought her first?” There wasn’t much doubt in her mind of that, based on the description he’d given of exposed roots and dripping water. Anyone who had listened to Jake that first day couldn’t fail to see the similarities.

Something about his stillness bothered her. Was he again sensing the child’s terror? Or was there something else going on? Something Jake felt, but didn’t want to articulate?

“What’s wrong?” She deliberately kept her voice low, so it wouldn’t carry to those who were pretending not to listen.

“He had to have spent a lot of time out here. Getting that ready.”

She nodded, unsure where he was going with this.

“Yet I haven’t seen him in any of the flashbacks. I think she heard him in the second one, but…” He shook his head, his eyes still empty.

“You’ve thought from the first that your connection was with her.”

“A time and place.”

“What?”

“That’s what a flashback is. A particular time and place. So why isn’t he ever here?”

She had no answer for that. She wasn’t even sure she understood what he was getting at.

Before she had time to formulate a response, out of the corner of her eye she caught someone moving purposefully through the crowd gathered around the entrance to the bunker. Someone not wearing a uniform.

As she turned to identify that person, Ray Nolan was approaching Dean. Although Eden was too far away to hear what they said, there was no doubt from his downward gesture what Raine’s father wanted. Dean seemed to argue briefly, but eventually Ray got his way, disappearing into the bunker where, at least briefly, his daughter had apparently been hidden.

“I probably need to be over there when he comes up,” she said to Jake.

Although he nodded agreement, she was still bothered enough by his uncharacteristic behavior to ask, “Is there something else you think we ought to be doing about this?”

“You? No.”

There wasn’t time for anything else, because Ray was emerging from the bunker. He made a beeline for where she and Jake were standing. Eden walked forward to meet him, unsure how he would react to Underwood being here.

“Is this it?” Ray asked, as he approached. “Is this the place

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