Formula for Danger by Camy Tang

Author:Camy Tang
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Romance, Suspense, Christian, Clean & Wholesome, Fiction
ISBN: 9781426866517
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2010-09-01T12:20:12.486000+00:00

TEN

“Rachel? Rachel?”

Jane’s voice jolted Rachel awake, sending a current of pain sizzling through her brain. She screwed her eyes shut, feeling the cold of the linoleum floor and pinpricks of dirt particles against her cheek.

And metal. She smelled metal.

She was smelling her own blood.

“Andrew, come quick,” Jane was saying. She must be on her cell phone calling the other security guard.

“Martin?” Rachel whispered. Where was Martin? Was he okay?

“He’s fine. He’s just still weak.”

She tried to raise her head, but the dizziness that attacked her made her stomach heave. No, she didn’t want to throw up on her office floor.

The lab doors unlocked and opened, and footsteps hastened close. “Dr. Grant! Martin!” Andrew cried.

“Did you call an ambulance?” Jane asked. “We need to get them to a hospital.”

“I can get up,” Rachel croaked. She took a deep breath, then slowly pushed away from the floor, supported by Jane’s hands. The ground tilted, but she managed to sit upright, leaning against the open door, which lay flush against her office wall.

Andrew was helping a shaky Martin also get up from the floor.

“Martin, are you all right?” she asked him.

“Dazed,” he mumbled. “Shaky. She hit me with a stun gun.”

She had suspected as much.

Rachel slowly glanced to the side. Her computer tower was completely gone, only a nest of wires remaining.

Jane followed her gaze. “Don’t think about that now.”

“It was Stephanie,” Rachel whispered.

Martin nodded slowly, his mouth pulled in a regretful grimace. “I let my guard down, Dr. Grant. I’m sorry.”

“You couldn’t have known.” Rachel closed her eyes briefly. “And after she told me about the job offer, I stopped suspecting her. I thought I was being paranoid.”

“We’ll get you to the hospital and Detective Carter will get to the bottom of this,” Andrew said.

“It’s too late…” Rachel closed her throat to the sob rising there. “Stephanie has the scar-cream formula. She has all my data.”

“Not all your data,” Jane hastened to assure her. “The backup external drive is still there, and it looks fine. I’ll take a look after the police go through everything.”

“I thought that since the computer was shut down, no one could get the formulation,” Rachel moaned. “It didn’t even occur to me that they would just take the computer.”

“The hack was a distraction,” Jane said, her voice taut. “It made you shut down the computer, so she just swiped the tower. No need for her to know how to break into your computer’s security system.”

“She called me before the hack happened, so I didn’t even connect it to her coming to the lab.” Plus she hadn’t expected Stephanie, rail thin, cute and girly, to take down two-hundred-fifty-pound Martin.

Or herself, for that matter.

“I’m calling your family.” Jane punched a number into her cell phone.

“Edward. Call Edward.” Rachel wanted him with her. She needed to hear his voice. Everything was falling apart, but just being with him would make her world seem steadier.

And she wanted him with her when she told her father.

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