Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense November 2016, Box Set 1 of 2 by Shirlee McCoy

Author:Shirlee McCoy
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488026003
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Sarah struggled against the sense of unreality as they squeezed through the wooden racks, the moist wood clammy where it brushed her shoulders. Here they were, on the run again, trying to escape like it was some sort of bad movie. At least in a movie, the script was already written. The outcome was far from decided for Sarah and Jett. Things were going from bad to horrendous.

“God, please help us,” was all she could manage as they shuffled along. She hoped He would hear the rest, a plea for safety for them both and for Del Young. Her senses were slow, dulled with the same thick, stupefying fear that she’d felt when her car plunged over the cliff.

The silent scream from that awful day still rang in her memory. She remembered him holding onto the door handle with one hand, the other reaching out to her as if he was trying to protect her, even in the very last moments of his life. Her dad, her hero, gone in a moment.

It could end the same now, her nerves whispered. You could die, you and Jett, just like Dad. The fear twisted tighter around her until she was almost paralyzed with it. It was so cold, so dark, the evil pressing in on all sides.

Jett seemed to sense something was wrong. He held his hand out and took hers and pressed her knuckles to his mouth for a soft kiss. No words passed between them, but his touch, the warmth of his kiss, gave her just enough strength to keep going, one stumbling foot sliding next to the other.

In moments, they’d reached a metal door, unlocked it and pushed through. Cold air doused her face and confused her senses after her stint in the cage. She held up an arm against the falling drops that pelted her head. They were at the edge of the back lawn of the estate, rain pattering against the neatly trimmed grass. It was a wide hedged-in area, complete with gravel paths and an ostentatious fountain gurgling away in the middle. Looking up she could see the ledge where Young had jumped rather than endure a confrontation with Ellsworth. Now she understood why.

She followed Jett’s lead and flattened herself against the wall of the house, staying away from the glow cast by the landscape lighting. A shout came from somewhere close by.

Jett pointed to a dense patch of shrubbery at the far side of the lawn. “We’ll go there,” he whispered, lips against her temple. “Ready to run?”

She nodded, prickles teasing her skin. He counted to three, and they sprinted across the turf. From the front of the house came the sound of splintering glass. They increased their speed until she could hardly keep from slipping on the wet grass. Would they be shot in their escape? The skin on the back of her neck crawled, and she felt completely exposed, utterly vulnerable, like a rabbit running across an open field, avoiding the falcon.

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