Authors: Hope White
Witness Pursuit (19 page)
She was listening. And she hadn't started running. Yet.
Tate fought the crazy urge to pull her into a hug before he let her go. “You have keys to the building?”
“I do.”
“Take my gun. Go inside through the fire door. Isaac will assume you're locked out and you ran for the woods. Get in your car and get out of here. Go as far as you can. Don't go near your apartment because there's two more guys waiting there for you. Get out of town and don't call the police. We can't blow this operation wide-open yet.” This mission was too important. If their target figured out they were onto him, he'd pack his toys and vanish by nightfall. Tate was too close to shutting the door on an op they'd been running for more than two years, an op that had left several broken lives and untimely deaths behind it.
He pulled his cell phone from his pocket and slipped it into hers. “Don't answer it, no matter what. I don't care what number comes across. I don't care what text messages you see. Do not answer. But don't lose it and don't turn it off. I'll find you.”
“Stop talking to me as though I've never done this before.” The words were coated with sass thick enough to choke them both.
Ah.
There was the blowback he'd expected. He grinned in spite of himself. “Then stop looking at me as though you've never done this before.”
She drew her eyebrows together, pulling her keys from her pocket and stepping around him, prepared to make a run for the building. “You have so much talking to do, you're going to be hoarse by the time you're done.”
Tate grabbed her elbow and glanced over his shoulder. “I promise I'll find you and explain later. Right now I need you to...” He was fully, painfully aware what he was about to ask of the woman he'd trained himself. “Hit me. Pretend you hate me.”
If the silent anger she fired at him was any indication, this might be the worst punch he ever took.
Meghan pulled in a deep breath, her posture easing into the one that knew this business was life or death.
The part of her that knew Tate was a dead man if they couldn't sell her escape.
Copyright © 2016 by Jodie Bailey
ISBN-13: 9781488008672
Witness Pursuit
Copyright © 2016 by Pat White
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