Heart of Stone by Rachel Starr

Author:Rachel Starr [Starr, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: RS Publishing
Published: 2023-05-17T16:00:00+00:00

I wasn’t even to the door when she came flying out, face white and pupils blown from fear. She didn’t say a word, just jerked up the edge of my shirt, looking for bullet wounds that weren’t even there. Instead, she found my Kevlar vest, and the deformed bullets wedged in it.

“Oh my God,” she breathed. “I thought they’d killed you,”

She was on the verge of hyperventilating, and I couldn’t blame her. This was clearly not a woman familiar with violence and bloodshed, and she thought she had seen the one familiar face she knew get shot twice right in her driveway. If I hadn’t been wearing body armor, there would have been four of them to take her. It wouldn’t have even been a struggle.

I didn’t want to think about it.

“Come on, sweetheart,” I coaxed, wrapping an arm around her heaving shoulders. “Let’s get you inside.”

“We’ve gotta get out of here!” she panted. “It’s not safe!”

“It’s safer inside than it is out here. Come on.”

Feeling the fear radiating off her body made my chest tight, and not just from the bullets. It was only by lucky chance that I was here when the Syndicate arrived, and had she been alone, God knows what would have happened to her. Now, there was no way for me to keep her in the dark about what was going on, and I was fairly certain that she wasn’t lying to me, either. The shock, uncertainty, and terror in her eyes were authentic.

Inside the house, I meant to lead her to her living room and have her sit on the sofa, but her legs seemed to give up the ghost as soon as we crossed the threshold. I had no choice but to help her sink to the ground, where she hid her face in her hands, and instead of crying, just breathed.

“Good girl,” I murmured, rubbing a hand up and down her back. “Just inhale, and exhale. You’re alright. They’re gone.”

“There are teeth in my driveway!” she wailed. “Human teeth!”

“You could, I don’t know, put them under your pillow or something?” I teased, but apparently that was the wrong thing to say.

Her head popped out of her hands and she glared at me, amber eyes glistening with tears. “Shut UP Gunner!” she spat. “This is all your fault, anyway! None of that would have happened if you hadn’t been here.”

I barked a laugh. “Are you nuts? Sweetheart, they were here for you. I promise I’ll fill you in completely later, but for right now, I’ll give you a little tidbit. My informant, the one who first put you on my radar, told me Trevor had stashed something stupidly valuable with you, Rachel. My source is sure that he put it directly into your hands. Now, I don’t think that’s true, but if there is even a kernel of reality in the statement, you need to tell me right now.”

Her expression went blank for a few seconds before she shook her head once. “No. He never did, Gunner, I swear.

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