Erica whispered, as she stared through the window that looked onto the hangar. Her stomach clenching with dread and fear, she was as horrified now as she had been when Rowe Cusack had first slapped the cuffs on Jed. But before he could drag him off, Macy had rushed out and joined them. Instead of staying there to support Jed, Erica had hurried toward her daughter. She hadn’t wanted Isobel to see any more than she already had. So she’d caught the child up in her arms and carried her back inside the apartment. “You played hide ’n’ seek real good, Mommy,” Isobel praised her. “Nobody found you.” Too bad Rowe had known where they were… Not that she had wanted to stay inside that tunnel with Jed forever. The confinement had been overwhelming or maybe that had just been her feelings—her desire—for the man that had overwhelmed her. Being too close to Jed made her lose her objectivity and her common sense.
