Marie smiled at the sentiment. If he wasn’t going to let her go, then she wasn’t going to let him go either.
Tonight things had changed between them and she was more than ready for it. Good or bad.
Chapter Fifteen
They were almostat the hospital when Isaac checked his mirrors again and noticed the white sedan had slipped in behind them. He’d been watching the car for the last few miles. The vehicle had been about four cars back, but what had triggered his awareness was the way it seemed to weave out a little to see if they were still in the lane and hadn’t turned off.
The fact that it was pre-dawn and traffic was lighter than it would be in a couple of hours, made their amateur movements all the more noticeable.
“Oh I just remembered, there was something about the case that you said you’d tell me this morning.”
Isaac flicked his gaze from the road to Marie, taking in her light blue scrubs. The faint purple rings under her eyes, a sign of little sleep. They’d onlymanaged a couple of hours sleep before Marie’s obnoxious alarm woke him. The last thing he wanted was to add more stress to her, but he had promised he would tell her what he’d learned from Cass. And he would have to tell her about the car potentially following them. “I did.” He told her what Cass had told him.
“That’s not much, is it? Do you think she’ll ever find them or the connection to why they want me?”
“I can’t give you those answers. But I won’t give up until I can.”
“None of this makes sense,” she muttered.
It didn’t, and Isaac wanted answers as much as she did. The white car crept a little closer to his bumper. Wanting to test his theory, Isaac switched lanes and accelerated. A couple of seconds later, the car did the same. They were definitely being followed, if getting right up his ass wasn’t a sign, this sure was. “Shit,” he muttered.
“What?” Marie swiveled in her seat, as if she could see what was troubling him.
All his protective instincts were kicking in, he didn’t want to alarm her, but she needed to know. “We’re being followed.”
There was an exit just ahead, not the one he needed to take, but it didn’t matter, they needed to do something to try and shake the tail they’d adopted. “Hang on,” he said, as he turned the wheel and the car veeredviolently to the right. The tires squealed and a horn blasted the air.
Isaac ignored it all, his focus on getting them to the hospital safely. He pressed the gas pedal a little harder trying to put as much distance between him and whoever was following them.
He breathed a little easier when he saw that they hadn’t made the exit. He’d left his move until the last minute and it had paid off. It shouldn’t have been so easy to lose them, but he was glad that it had been.
At least he had a camera system installed in his car. He wasn’t able to get the license plate, but they’d be able to get it from the footage, and Cass could work her magic. The plates were probably stolen along with the car, but they’d be able to get some pictures of the occupants. Anything they could get would be useful in identifying them, and trying to piece together the puzzle was a step in the right direction.
Were they the same ones who’d tried to kidnap Marie? There was no way of knowing.
“Are they still behind us?” Considering what had gone on in the last thirty seconds, she didn’t sound freaked out.
“No, we lost them.” He took notice of where they were. The area was a little unfamiliar to him. He was still getting used to being back in LA. “Can you get us to the hospital from here?”
He didn’t want to risk going back on the highway. The likelihood of the people following them finding them again was slim, but it wasn’t a risk he wanted to take.
Wait! How did they find us in the first place?
When they’d left Marie’s apartment he’d been aware of their surroundings and hadn’t noticed anything out of the ordinary. He certainly hadn’t noticed a white sedan like the one that had followed them parked in the street.
“Fuck,” he muttered as the insidious thought that they’d put a tracker on his car took hold. If they’d done that then there was every chance they could find them no matter which route he took.
“What’s wrong? Did they find us?” Now she sounded a little panicked, and telling her his suspicions wouldn’t make it any better either. But he wasn’t going to keep this from her. In order to keep her safe, she needed to be involved in everything and know everything.
“Not yet, but I can only think of one way of how they found us in the first place.” He checked his mirrors again. The road was still clear behind them, but that didn’t mean they couldn’t cut them off the further they went.
“How?”
Isaac made a quick turn down another street. “They’re tracking the car.”
Marie gasped, and he wished like fuck that he wasn’t driving, so he could pull her into his arms and hold her. Keep her safe against his side. The very thought of leaving her alone at the hospital, where she was vulnerable, ate at him like acid burning through metal. “If true, no matter which way we go, they could find us again.”
Of course, she would work out the implications of that particular scenario. Unfortunately it was too early to call the office and get help, he would just have to make sure that they got to the hospital safely, and once there he’d deal with everything else. His main focus and priority was to get them there without any incident.
