Shadow Protector by Jenna Ryan

Author:Jenna Ryan [Ryan, Jenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-09-06T05:00:00+00:00

“FLO’S FINE. SHE’S asleep,” Logan said to Fred in the kitchen.

The lights were back on and Sera and Flo were safe. No thanks to him, Logan reflected with a thrust of self-directed anger. The Blindfold Killer had escaped again. Barely, but he’d done it, roared off in a cloud of rain and dust and sporting, he hoped, a crippled groin.

“How’d he do it?” Fred wanted to know. “Sera said he was threatening them down here, then suddenly, he was up in your room.”

Logan braced his hands on the counter. “I checked the trellis. There’s a lot of damage, and the window was only open a crack when I left this morning. Sera swears it was wide open when the guy jumped through it.”

“So he used the trellis to get upstairs ahead of them?”

“It’s one possibility.”

Fred rubbed a guilty palm over his head and paced circles around the table. “I should’ve gotten Annabelle to look into that break and enter down the road. Only take a minute, I thought. But then my engine overheated, and Ginny Bulley doesn’t answer her phone after hours. What if they’d been killed, Logan? Whose fault would that have been?”

“Not yours.” Pushing off, Logan went to the fridge, pulled out a beer and tossed it to his distraught deputy. “Sera fired, the guy took off and I’m the one who should be kicking himself because this is the second time I’ve missed him.”

“You weren’t supposed to be here. I was. Fault’s mine.”

Logan debated, then thought to hell with it and pulled another beer. “We could do this dance all night, Fred, but the fact is, I’m the chief of police in Blue Ridge. Sera’s safety is my responsibility. End of story.”

“End of fairy tale, more like.” Arms folded, Sera leaned against the frame. She held the swinging door open with her shoulder and regarded them through mildly exasperated green eyes. “My life and safety are my own responsibility, gentlemen—and especially Logan. While I appreciate the effort everyone’s making—again, especially Logan—I’m not a five-year-old child who requires constant supervision. People with goals, good and or evil, generally find a way to fulfill them. If one of you had been here tonight, he might not have done what he did, but you know he’d have done something at some point and maybe then, instead of failing, he’d have succeeded, and this conversation would look good by comparison.”

Logan let a faint smile escape as he handed her his beer. “Sounds like the twisted logic of a tired shrink to me.”

“Tired’s better than dead.” Fred glanced upward. “Can I see Flo?”

“She’s sleeping, but yes, you can. There’s no sign of concussion. I’ll check her through the night and tomorrow. It wasn’t your fault, Fred,” she added as he squeezed past her.

A gusty expulsion of breath was his only response before he clomped up the stairs.

“And then there were two.” She said it with a twinkle that amazed Logan almost as much as it confounded him. Was there anything a shrink

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