The Trapped Girls Collection: Detective Grant Abduction Mysteries by James Hunt

Author:James Hunt [Hunt, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-31T08:00:00+00:00

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It was the warmth that woke Grant, which didn’t make sense. He had been in the woods, buried in snow, bleeding from the bullet wound on his leg.

Grant fluttered his eyelids, and the darkness was replaced by blinding light. It was so bright that it hurt. He smacked his lips, his mouth dry, and he became aware of the dull ache that spread throughout his entire body.

The small hospital room was old. The floors and ceiling yellowed with age and the air smelled of bleach. A window to Grant’s right was open, a warm breeze billowing the white curtains that had been drawn. Its motion was smooth and gentle.

Something beeped loudly, and then a hand touched his, and he calmed.

“Hey, it’s okay.”

Grant shuddered. Still blinded by brightness, he couldn’t see her, but it wasn’t possible for her to be with him. She was safe. She was in the city, far away from the cold death that Grant had plummeted in. But he knew he wasn’t imagining it because he never could have conjured up the beautiful blue in her tear-filled eyes.

“Hey,” Sam said, her voice barely above a whisper. “How are you feeling?”

“I don’t…” Grant lifted his hand and pressed his palm against her cheek, and Sam leaned into his touch. Her skin was smooth and soft against his callused hand. “Is this real?”

Sam kissed his hand and then nodded. “Yes, sweetheart. It’s real.”

Grant’s chest swelled, and he was flooded with happiness as Sam lunged forward, wrapping her arms around him, kissing his neck, his cheek, his forehead, the pair holding onto one another tightly.

They lingered in the embrace for a while, and when Sam finally pulled back, Grant shook his head in disbelief. “How?”

“Hickem,” Sam answered. “After you were caught at the festival, he brought you into protective custody. He then reached out to me and put me in a safehouse. He told me what you were doing, that you were going after Dennis, and he said that if you were successful, if you could really bring him down, then he was going to bring you down here.” She gestured to the room. “Viva la Mexico.”

Between whatever drugs the hospital staff had given him, the euphoria of seeing Sam, and the fatigue from the fight with Dennis, his mind had struggled to follow what she was telling him.

“We’re in Mexico?”

“Baja Peninsula,” Sam answered. “I don’t really know how to pronounce the town’s name.”

Grant squeezed her hand, reassuring himself that she was real. “Hickem did this?”

Sam nodded, and the smile slightly faded. “But it does come with a price. We can’t go back. Neither of us. We’re in exile.”

It made sense. Grant figured it was the only way for Hickem to pull it off, but to get him here, get them both here, it must have cost some considerable resources. “He told everyone I’m dead.”

Sam nodded.

“Where is he?”

“With Dennis,” Sam answered, a flash of anger on her face, and then wiped her nose. “You’ve been out for three days. But it’s over, Grant.

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