Halo (K19 Security Solutions Book 8) by Heather Slade

Author:Heather Slade [Slade, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sparrow Publishing
Published: 2020-09-16T18:30:00+00:00

18

Tara

I put the sketchbook back in my bag and stood to follow Ben to the entrance of the Accademia. I’d walked a few steps when the hair on the back of my neck stood up. I looked across the street, expecting to see Brand. I didn’t, but the person I saw instead was definitely watching me. Even when my eyes met his, he didn’t look away. Nor did he smile.

Like Ben, the man was very muscular, so much so that his clothes strained against his bulk. I reached for Ben’s arm and tucked mine through it.

Instead of looking at me, he looked across the cobbled road, perhaps sensing someone watching us like I had. He put his hand on my waist and moved me so I was walking on the other side of him, farther from the man whose gaze still had not wavered. Not only that, he began walking too, in the same direction we were.

Ben ducked me into the next shop door we came to. I peeked around him and saw that the man kept walking. He moved me to his side, and I watched him rest his hand on something.

“Is that a gun?” I whispered.

“Shh.” He looked over his shoulder, and I did the same. No one appeared to be paying any attention to us.

After a couple of minutes, we went back out and continued our walk toward the museum, only this time, he had me tucked against his side.

“Why do you have a gun?” I asked.

His eyes scanned our surroundings. “I told you the work I do is investigative.”

Not long after I’d been kidnapped, I thought about getting a permit to carry a gun, but had never followed through with it. Right now, I wished I had.

Yesterday, when we entered the Museo di San Marco, I hadn’t been paying attention to Ben when he stopped and talked with one of the security guards. Today I did.

“What did you show him?” I asked when he walked over to where I stood waiting.

“My carry permit.”

He led me over to the elevator and down to the first floor where the Giovanni da Milano and the late fourteenth century rooms were located. It wasn’t a place most visitors of the museum ever went. The focus here was on the techniques employed by artists like da Milano, Michaelangelo, and Cennino.

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