The Baby's Bodyguard by Alice Sharpe - The Baby's Bodyguard

Author:Alice Sharpe - The Baby's Bodyguard [Sharpe, Alice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: American Light Romantic Fiction, Romance, Fiction - Romance, American Mystery & Suspense Fiction, Contemporary, General, Romance - Suspense, Romance - Contemporary, Fiction, Romance - General
ISBN: 9780263217902
Publisher: Harlequin (UK) Ltd
Published: 2009-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

“What do you mean, gone?” Jack demanded as Hannah slid into the truck next to him. He was in gear and taking off up the hill before her door was completely closed.

She sat staring straight ahead, her arms wrapped around each other. He could feel her body trembling. They were twenty minutes away form Allota and that was driving with all the stops out. “Hannah? Tell me what your grandmother said.”

She turned stricken eyes at him. “I could barely understand her. Something about a fire.”

“What did she say when you told her to call the police?”

“She said the note said ‘No cops.’”

“But she still has to call them,” he argued.

Hannah shook her head. “She refused. She said I would understand, just to hurry.”

“You call them,” he said.

Again she shook her head. “No.”

“But—”

“Grandma said the note implied this was a warning, Aubrielle would survive only if the police weren’t called. Drive faster.”

He drove faster, halfway hoping some alert highway patrolman would chase him down so he could enlist aid. His mind raced—the obvious: he shouldn’t have let Hannah fire him. He’d left the child in danger—why had he allowed that?

He slid a look at his frantic passenger. He knew she was beating herself up for leaving the baby with her grandmother and friends. No doubt her grandmother was sick that the baby had been taken on her watch.

But the bottom line was if amoral jerks wanted to wreak havoc on normal people, it was damn near impossible to stop them. Hadn’t that been the final lesson of the ambush in Tierra Montañosa? Didn’t every suicide bomber reinforce that one fact?

“It’s so foggy and cold,” Hannah whispered as they sped down the hill toward Allota.

“We’re almost there.” Those were the last words either of them spoke until they pulled onto Mimi’s street. A fire truck was parked close by, its crew coiling up hoses, and for a second, Jack felt like scratching his newly shorn head, trying to figure out where a fire truck fit into this debacle. Then Hannah pointed at what was left of the old abandoned car across from Mimi’s house. Reduced to a smoldering black frame, acrid smoke still hung in the air around it.

Mimi and two other women erupted out of Mimi’s house as Jack pulled into the driveway. Hannah had her door open and had jumped out before he could fully stop the truck. By the time he stepped inside the house, just the two friends were visible. They met his gaze and nodded anxiously toward the hall.

He kept going, heart pounding, pausing at the doorway to the nursery. Hannah and Mimi were standing inside the room, Hannah comforting Mimi as her stricken eyes searched the empty room for her child. A pain shot right through the middle of his chest.

Though now filled with three adults, the fact the baby who belonged here was missing made the place feel abandoned. Hannah met his gaze, her eyes swimming in tears that rolled down her cheeks when she blinked.

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