he said for the tenth time. “Careful there.” He tugged at his leg, which was pinned beneath the lower edge of the wall.“I’ve got it.” Raine sniffed against more tears. Concentrate. She had to concentrate on what needed to be done right now.There would be time for tears later. In private.The wall ...
The main room was maybe ten by fifteen, and had a soot-stained brick hearth at one end. A queen-size bed took up a raised platform nearby, with a big chest at the foot of the stripped mattress promising blankets against the cold. The remainder of the main space was open, save for a tall cupboard ...
Chapter Nine The GPS signal brought them down the Mass Pike, to the edge of a wide lake forty minutes away from the city. Peters parked behind a string of local cruisers, and Nia saw a row of officers lined up at the water’s edge.“This can’t be good.”She started at Rathe’s voice. He had dozed mo...
She didn’t want to consider how quickly the timbre of his voice had engraved itself on her consciousness, for good or ill. Instead, she fixed on the fear in his tone.Something had happened. Something bad.She quick-timed it back along her route, traversing a narrow crevice that barely held the tip...
Fire!He broke off in the middle of saying something to Tucker on the phone and spun toward the far window of the living room in his house, which was a short hike from the station.His gut fisted at the sight of a sickly glow where the station’s lights should have been.In the split second it took h...
He shoved her towards the brightly lit meeting house and turned to face their attacker. “Don’t ask, just run!”The shadowy figure lunged, and Dale leapt back. He stumbled over a tree root, kicked out blindly and connected, feeling a spurt of surprise when the other man went down with a grunt and d...