Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense January 2019, Box Set 2 of 2 by Elizabeth Goddard

Author:Elizabeth Goddard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Jenna stared at Wyatt’s outstretched hand. He didn’t move. Didn’t waver. Simply waited…for her.

She froze.

This was her office. Her shop. Her normal, everyday, unimportant life…until a couple of days ago, at least.

But here was Wyatt in the midst of it. Not normal, everyday, or unimportant. And this wasn’t an invitation to take his hand.

It was an invitation to change everything.

He couldn’t possibly mean it, not in the way her heart wanted him to. He didn’t know who she really was. Didn’t know the thoughts running through her head. Didn’t know she had nothing to offer him.

He was incredible, wonderful, perfect. She was a wreck in every possible way.

Still, everything in her cried out for him. It would feel good to be loved, to be needed, to share everyday life with Wyatt Stephens.

She lifted her hand and inhaled deeply, the breath catching in her throat as a familiar odor wafted in.

Gasoline.

“Wyatt…”

His hand fell to his side as his expression shifted from soft and questioning to firm and determined, the same look he’d worn each time he’d put himself between her and danger. He grabbed her arm, shifting her behind him as he reached for his cell phone. “Probably nothing, but I’m going to—”

Glass shattered at the front of the building. A light flashed, then grew steadily brighter in the shop.

Jenna whipped toward the light. Flames spread rapidly along the center of the room, hungrily licking the tile floor, feeding off the breeze from the broken front window. Voices from outside shouted and yelled, becoming muted as the sound of fire grew louder.

Wyatt shoved his phone into his pocket and reached for her hand. “We have to get out of here. Now.” He dragged her out of the office and along the short hallway to the back door, but when he looked up, he halted. Expression grim, he placed his palm on the door, then jerked it away.

Jenna followed his gaze to the small screen in the corner above the door. The monitor painted a horrifying picture of the steps, one filled with thick smoke and angry flames.

There was nowhere to run. With solid brick walls on one side of the building and two layers of brick between her shop and the gallery next door, they were trapped.

He flipped the dead bolt to unlock the door, then tugged her hand and led her to the front of the shop. Although the fire ran along the floor toward the center of the room, space remained to squeeze by along the wall. Barely. They’d have to move fast.

Jenna tried to blast past Wyatt, but he tightened his grip on her hand, raising his voice to be heard over the increasing pop and roar of the fire. “The door.”

The front door and windows burned higher and hotter than the rest of the room, nearly obliterated by the flames.

“Accelerant. Someone wanted our escape routes cut off.” Wyatt dragged her backward into the office and shut the door behind them, holding his phone to his ear as he looked around the room.

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