Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense February 2020--Box Set 1 of 2 by Hope White

Author:Hope White
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Mack pelted through the trees toward the flashing lights as they blinked on and off like a beacon in the darkness, casting the crashed truck and frozen lake in an eerie sea of light for barely an instant before turning the scene dark before his eyes again.

What had she been thinking? Why had she driven off like that? Why had she shot out onto the ice? Even as the questions crossed his mind, his heart was pierced with the fear that she hadn’t done it willingly. The horn had stopped blaring, leaving nothing but the eerie sound of cracking ice behind. He could see the cab of the truck sink deeper and deeper beneath the ice.

All Mack could do was run.

“Update?” Liam’s voice came from Mack’s breast pocket, and Mack realized he hadn’t paused long enough to end the call. “What’s going on?”

He yanked out the phone and shouted, “Iris is in danger! I’ll call you back. Don’t stop praying.”

“Will do,” Liam said firmly. “God be with you.”

“You, too.” Mack hung up the phone so quickly he wasn’t even sure if Liam had heard his answer. He couldn’t afford to pause. Not for a moment, not for a second, not while Iris’s life was in danger. He dashed down the snowy hill, through the trees and toward the ice.

“Iris!” He cupped his hands and shouted into the night. “Can you hear me?”

“Mack!” Her voice met his ears and his feet sped faster. “I’m here! I’ve climbed onto the truck and it’s sinking!”

The hazard lights flashed, and he saw her slender figure crouched on the sharply slanting cab of the truck.

“Iris, hold on!” he shouted. “I’m coming!”

Then his feet hit the ice and he ran as fast as he could along the shoreline toward the flashing lights. The scene flickered from light to dark in front of him as the truck slid deeper and deeper into the lake, nose first and anchored only by the camper behind it. Iris climbed across the slanting cab toward the bed of the truck. He gasped for breath. As he watched, she jumped from the tilted bed onto the top of the camper and crouched there gingerly. The sinking truck pulled the camper closer to the water.

“Don’t jump!” he shouted. “Wait for me! I’ll catch you!”

If she jumped and hit a fissure, she could break through the ice and go under. But if she leaped toward him, he could brace himself, catch her and pull her to safety.

The ice groaned loudly under the camper’s weight. Mack’s feet slid beneath him, and another crack split the air as more ice gave way.

“Just hold on!” he shouted. “I’m almost there!”

“Mack!” She screamed his name as if it were wrenched from her lungs. “Look out behind you!”

A tranquilizer dart brushed his shoulder, tearing the edge of his sleeve before falling ineffectively to his feet. Mack glanced back in time to see a snarling face.

The green-masked Jackal threw his huge bulk at him, and Mack hit the ice with the weight of the criminal on top of him.

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