Hidden Truth by Danica Winters

Author:Danica Winters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-09-23T19:16:07+00:00

Chapter Nine

She was acting weird. Or maybe he was, he couldn’t decide. As they hiked toward the smoke, he couldn’t make heads or tails of his thoughts. This was all driving him mad. At least he would soon find out one way or another if she could be trusted. He would have his answer and then they could move forward—or not.

The snow crunched under their feet, the sound reminding him of what needed to be done. All they had to do was get to the bottom of the Cussler brother’s death for now. He could deal with the rest when he got home.

Yes, shoving the thoughts of her possible deception away...yes, that was the best answer. If he was acting weird, at least he could put an end to it this way and slide back into his role as one of the Martin brothers—tech billionaires extraordinaire, complete with a fictionalized military backstory...well, sort of fictionalized. Some of his experiences with the military had been all too real.

That’s all this feeling was, his past coming back to haunt him. He was out of that game. Now he just had to look to the future.

If only it were that simple.

Becoming a civilian was proving to be far harder than he had expected it to be. He’d always thought that the people who had the biggest issues were also the ones whose egos wouldn’t allow them to step away from the game. He’d never thought that he would be one of those people. Sure, his identity had been all spook all the time, but that wasn’t who he was. He had always thought of himself as so much more...and yet he was constantly proving himself wrong. Even the way he made his bed every day spoke of his passion for a life that was no longer going to be his once he retired completely.

There was a click and slide in the distance, just like the sound of a round being jacked into a bolt-action rifle. He glanced in the direction of the smoke. They had to be at least a half mile away from the possible camp. They were surrounded by a blanket of white, interspersed with dots and jags of gray and black and trees that had fallen victim to a recent forest fire. In the world of white, nothing moved. Yet the sound had been nearly unmistakable.

He’d heard that grind of metal too many times in his life to get it wrong.

“Get down,” he said, moving behind a piece of deadfall and motioning toward Sabrina to follow suit.

She looked at him like he had lost his mind, but she did as he told her and squatted down beside him. “What is it? Did you see something?” she whispered.

As the last syllable fell from her lips, a bullet whistled by them. Without thinking, he pushed Sabrina all the way to the ground so she was lying behind the log. Based on the sound and the percussive wave of the shot, whoever was shooting at them was uphill, not far.

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