“Smart choice, Donovan.”
“Fuck you, Webb.”
With a shake of his head, the smug bastard chuckled softlyas he and the man holstering his gun got into the vehicle and drove away.
Van immediately pulled out his phone, texting the team that he was back and calling an emergency meeting. Webb—and whoever sent those two hitmen—may have won the battle for now, but…
I will damn well win the war.
“The turn is coming up.”Secretary Webb told the man behind the wheel. “Next one on the right.”
Kam sat silent behind the passenger seat, the armed guard sitting next to her only a few inches away. The smell of expensive leather and cheap cologne added to the already-present nausea churning inside her gut.
Her heart had been broken the minute they’d driven away with him standing by himself at the edge of the dock. The expression on his face had been positively lethal, and though she’d doubted his intentions at first, in that moment, Kam knew…
He didn’t do this.
Yes, that was his plan in the beginning. To see if she would give up more information. But she’d made it clear early on that she’d already told him and his team everything she knew.
She closed her eyes and thought about the night she’d woken him because of the whale. His initial reaction had been to go straight into protector mode. And it was only after he confirmed there wasn’t a threat that he let his guard down.
They’d talked. Laughed. And then…
We had sex.
Wild, passionate, uninhibited sex.
It was an unforgettable moment that preceded several others. Ones that, at some point along their unexpected journey, had transpired from incredible sex…to making love.
The vehicle she was in slowed before making a sharp right. The sudden change in motion broke Kam out of her head and back to the uncertain present. With a blink, she stared at the scenery behind her tinted window.
She frowned when she realized they were driving past a field.
“I thought you told Van we had a long flight ahead of us.”
“We do.” Webb kept his focus on the gravel road ahead. “But first, we have to make a quick stop.”
Something about the way he said “we” gave her pause.
Kam glanced back out the window in an attempt to see where these men were taking her. They passed by a trove of tall pine trees, and there…in the distance…was what appeared to be an abandoned farm.
“That’s it, there.” Webb pointed to the place she was seeing.
Her heart kicked hard against the inside of her chest when the SUV began to slow in preparation of taking another turn. This was where they were taking her?
No, no, no, no, no.
This couldn’t be right. Webb was a United States government official. He’d promised Van she’d be kept under night and day protection.
And yet…
Everything about this was wrong, and her gut was screaming that she needed to run. But how? And to where? She didn’t have the first clue where she was.
“Park there, next to the other one.”
Kam looked ahead to where Webb had instructed his driver to stop. They were behind a decrepit, two-story home, parked between it and a large outbuilding with cinderblock walls, an open front, and a wooden roof supported by three large, brick pillars.
Her pulse raced as she realized they could no longer be seen from the road.
