Secret Keeper by Paula Graves

Author:Paula Graves
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Cooper Justice 12/Cooper Security 5, Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-09-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

He should never have agreed to come here, Wade thought as he followed Annie through the darkened cabin toward the back exit, especially given her recent bouts with debilitating flashbacks. But after her first shaky reaction, she’d responded with surprising confidence, extinguishing the flashlight and leading the way toward the back.

They reached the back door before the car engine died at the front of the cabin. Annie opened the door and slipped outside, grabbing his arm to pull him out behind her. They closed the door quietly, the click of the latch engaging camouflaged by the sound of footsteps ringing on the front porch steps of the cabin.

Annie slipped the key in the lock and twisted it. “I didn’t lock the front door behind us,” she whispered, her brow furrowed.

“I locked it when I heard the car coming,” he whispered back. He held up his hands to show her he’d donned a pair of thin leather gloves. “No prints.”

She shot him a look of relief. There might have been a little admiration in her expression as well, though he supposed he could be indulging in a bit of wishful thinking.

He didn’t have time for wishful thinking.

“Come on.” Annie tightened her fingers around his. She led him into the tree line at the back of the cabin until he could barely see the building through the thick palisade of tree trunks and low-hanging limbs.

“Now we can’t see what they’re doing,” Wade murmured.

“Just a minute.” She kept moving, tugging him with her, until they reached four pine trees lined up side by side like sentries standing guard. Overhead, their boughs tangled inextricably, as if they were holding hands in a giant game of Red Rover. But between their wide, rough trunks, Wade could see the cabin.

“We called them the four sisters,” Annie whispered. “Mom and I. Dad said we were being fanciful.”

Wade peered through the darkness at the cabin. From this vantage point, he could see the porch and the side window of the large front room.

Next to him, Annie let out a soft gasp as the light came on in the front of the cabin.

“Bold,” Wade murmured.

“Look who they are,” she whispered back.

He peered through the darkness. One of the men was standing near the window, looking intently at the floor. After a second, he looked up, seemingly right at Wade.

Wade froze, even though he knew the light inside the cabin would turn the window into a mirror blocking out anything outside. The man stood there a moment before he turned away, but it was long enough for Wade to recognize him as one of the two fake A.F.O.S.I. agents who’d been keeping watch outside Annie’s hospital room. The same men who’d chased them through the tunnel.

“They don’t give up, do they?” she whispered. “Think they’re looking for signs we were there?”

“Maybe. Or maybe they’re looking for something else.” Like whatever they’d kidnapped the Harlowes for in the first place. He and his family had assumed it was to find

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