Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense October 2019, Box Set 1 of 2 by Sharon Dunn

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

CHAPTER NINE

“Seth!” He shouted his friend’s name as loudly as he could. “Seth! Where are you?”

Tires screeched on the driveway outside as a vehicle slammed on its brakes.

Instinctively, Noah’s arm shot around Holly, as he stepped in front of her, shielding her and pulling her to safety. He heard the sound of footsteps. A man was running across the parking lot toward them. Noah pressed them back against the wall.

“Seth!” Liam burst through the door, then froze. His face paled. His eyes turned to Noah. “Noah! What are you doing here? Where’s Seth?”

“I don’t know where Seth is,” Noah said. “He called me and told me to come here. I arrived, found the place trashed, a lot of blood and no Seth.”

He watched as a prayer crossed Liam’s lips, then felt Holly step out from behind him. Liam blinked, and Noah watched as he took in her new look in a glance.

“Who’s this?” Liam asked. “What’s she doing here?”

“It’s Holly,” Noah said. “Guess you could say she’s in disguise.”

And even though it’s not my place to ask, I’d very much like it if you stopped staring at her.

“Where were you?” Noah demanded, with more bite in his voice than he liked. “Why weren’t you watching Seth?”

“You know where I’ve been,” Liam said. “I’ve been digging into every possible lead I can find and coordinating with Mack and Jess.”

“You shouldn’t have left Seth alone!” Noah’s voice rose even more. He felt Holly’s hand brush his arm, not like she was trying to calm him down or shut him up, but trying to let him know he wasn’t alone.

“You know he didn’t want to be babysat!” Liam’s pained voice matched Noah’s in volume and intensity, and Noah could tell his old friend was aching every bit as much as he was. “It’s not our role. We’re detectives, not babysitters! I gave him the choice of coming with me. He didn’t take it. He said he was chasing down a lead and very close to finding something.”

Well, it looked like the Imposters had found him first. For a moment Noah stood there frozen, surrounded by the remains of the belongings of a man he’d promised to protect. If only Seth had let me protect him.

“It’s not your fault,” he told Liam at last. “He had this stubborn streak, doing things his way and only accepting help on his own terms.”

“We gotta go,” Holly interjected. She squeezed his arm again, harder this time, and her touch seemed to snap him back to the present. “I think the building’s on fire.”

And suddenly it was like everything hit his senses at once—the pervasive smell of gasoline, the tickle of acrid smoke in the back of his throat, the growing heat on his skin. And then he heard distant sirens.

They turned and ran out of the building. He reached the truck and looked back. Flames licked at the back windows of the hangar. The sirens grew louder.

“They set the building ablaze and called the fire department,” Holly declared.

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