Noble Intentions- Season Four by L T Ryan

Author:L T Ryan [Ryan, L T]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction & Literature, Action Suspense, Mystery & Suspense, Literature & Fiction, Action & Adventure, Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense, Spies & Politics, Espionage, Thriller, Thrillers, Mystery & Thrillers
Amazon: B00L3G007I
Published: 2014-06-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 47

Eastern France.

BEAR HADN'T REALIZED the road they'd been on for five minutes was in fact a driveway. He hadn't seen a streetlight in over an hour. Everything was black: the sky, the horizon, the earth. All except for the orange glow of a porch light at the end of the lane. Who or what was inside the house? His heart skipped a beat. Several, actually. He gritted his teeth against the sharp pain on the side of his head. Since leaving Nice, it hadn't dissipated. Seemed to occur more frequently lately. The duration longer. The pain more intense.

Pierre had cut his headlights when the porch light was a pinprick. Now he switched off the parking lights. How he knew where to go was beyond Bear. What if the road curved? Were there ditches along the side? Probably not. Like most country driveways, it probably followed the natural contours of the path. Presumably, Pierre knew it. Or the guy had great night vision. Whatever the case, Bear kept from worrying by thinking about Mandy being present. From here, the two could go anywhere.

Fifty feet from the house, two floodlights exploded in a wash of white. Motion activated, Bear guessed. The front door swung open. A slender figured waited. The silhouette bore a resemblance to Kat. Bear craned his neck as though it would allow him to see past the woman and locate Mandy. A short expanse of concrete led to the garage. The white door was down. No windows. The Audi Kat and Mandy had left in had to be parked inside. Pierre stopped there and cut the engine. He left the keys in the ignition and exited the car.

Stepping out to join the Frenchman, Bear heard the woman on the porch call out in her native tongue. The voice was too mature to be Kat's. He looked over and saw her standing in the light. She looked to be in her late forties. Slim, attractive, hair still dark. But not Kat.

"Pierre," the woman said, looking past the man. "Where is Kat?"

The feeling in Bear's stomach was something he'd only felt on a couple occasions. The day he'd been falsely told that Jack had died was one. He struggled to recall another. If Kat wasn't here, neither was Mandy. He rushed forward, colliding with Pierre at the base of the steps leading to the porch. The Frenchman appeared to be in a similar state of panic. They hadn't been able to contact Kat since leaving Nice, but that was easily explained by the fact that cellular service was spotty at best in the region. And local phone service outages were common, according to Pierre.

"You tell me," Pierre shouted to the woman. "She should have been here hours ago. Are you saying you haven't heard from her at all? Why didn't you call me?"

She shook her head violently, as though the action could keep the inevitable truth at bay. "Our phone has been out for quite some time."

Pierre didn't seem to hear her as he pushed past and entered the home.

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