Allegiances. Cynthia Eden
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Название: Allegiances
Автор: Cynthia Eden
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Ужасы и Мистика
Серия: Mills & Boon Intrigue
isbn: 9781474039567
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“Celia!” Sullivan yelled. “Don’t—”
There was a whistle of sound, then a thunk. Wood flew into the air—splintering away from the door—even as Celia dove back inside the building. She hit the floor before he could reach her. Sullivan was pretty sure that his heart stopped when she slammed into the ground.
The bullet didn’t hit her. The bullet didn’t hit her.
He grabbed her arms and yanked her away from the still-open door. He held her close, his grip probably too tight, but he didn’t care, and he backed down the hallway as fast as he could.
“What in the hell was that?” Mac snarled.
“That...” Celia huffed out a hard breath. Her body was tense against Sullivan’s. “That was someone who wants me dead. And that bullet would have hit me if Sully hadn’t called my name.”
And in that last instant, she’d turned back. She’d moved back toward him. The bullet had missed her head and hit the door.
Too close. Too close.
“This is a county facility!” Mac’s grating voice seemed to echo around them. “To attack here...this guy is freaking insane.”
Insane...or just very, very determined to take out his target.
And now Sullivan realized just why Porter had been killed and left at McGuire Securities. “The shooter knew we’d come to look at the body. He wanted to draw you out so he could—”
“Try to kill me?” Celia finished. She glanced up at Sullivan, her dark lashes making her blue eyes appear even brighter. “Yes, I figured that out, too. Right after the bullet nearly lodged in my head.”
It was hard to breathe. She can’t die. “You’re not running from me,” Sullivan rasped.
Mac was on his phone. Probably getting all his cop buddies ready to search the scene out there. The shooter had missed, though, and Sullivan was betting he wasn’t just going to sit around while the authorities closed in. No, he’d flee, for the moment.
And then come back for another attack.
“You’re not running,” Sullivan said again. “You’re going to tell me exactly what’s going on. Why you’re on some nut job’s hit list... And then we are going to stop him.” He’d let her down once before. He’d be damned if he did it again.
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