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He rong If she screa, would try to save her If she screamed, Vishenko would shoot hio on living?” she’d told Liam and she knew it for the truth She couldn’t risk his life
Memories of him flooded her consciousness, and as plain as if he was standing next to her, she could hear hi to be with her when you draw your last breathor when she draws hers”
An eerie cal her, holding her safe, and she drew courage fro to die, but Liam ith her in herher head, deter And you won’t rape ain”
He cocked his head to one side, considering “No? Perhaps you are right” He sighed with real regret “It is too bad, Caterina I would have enjoyed having you one last time”
“Federal agents! Freeze!”
The harsh voices cah the air, just as Vishenko raised his gun once more But even before that, a hard,her out of Vishenko’s line of fire as he squeezed the trigger
Gunshots rang out fro into Vishenko’s body He tottered a few steps, a look of utter surprise on his face He dropped the gun and fell to his knees, his hands clutching his chest, while the ser and larger Then he pitched forward
Pinned to the ground by the heavy weight on top of her, dazed and confused by everything that had just happened, Cate tried to take it all in as four people swarmed onto the narrow path The smallest person—a woman she realized, with blond hair siun away froun steadfastly pointed at hielina found her—knelt beside the body and felt for a pulse
“Dead,” Cody Walker said, and by his tone Cate kneasn’t sorry
A third person, another lanced in Cate’s direction and cursed fluently
Froht fro war When she rolled over she saw Sheriff Callahan propping Liaainst his shoulder She watched in horror as Liaainst thehim
“Walker!” Callahan barked, reaching over and ripping Lia up his shirt to expose the two bloody gunshot wounds caused by the bullet that had entered Liam’s body just above his waist and exited out the other side
“Oh no!” The words didn’t co froed on Lia Cate’s view
Gentle hands helped her rise to a sitting position “You okay?” McKinnon asked her as one hand moved impersonally over the damp patches of blood on her back “Were you shot?”
“No, I Liam,” she said disjointedly “His blood, notto be okay, isn’t he?”
He didn’t answer her, just tapped an earpiece in his ear “We’ve got a situation here We need a medical team, stat No, sir,” he continued “It’s Jones—explanations can wait” Cate couldn’t hear the other side of the conversation, but even hearing only one side was enough to get the gist McKinnon glanced around and made a face of frustration “You can’t land a medevac chopper here at the cabin—there’s no way The et a chopper there, we’ll meet you” He listened for a couple of seconds “Yes, sir, will do”
Desperate to know Lia to make it, Cate turned back to stare at the knot of people frantically working on him, but she couldn’t see much
McKinnon’s voice was sharp and staccato when he told the people surrounding Lia for a medevac chopper I told him we’d meet him at the main road”
Walker stood up, and suddenly Cate could see Liae they’d strapped around his body “The cot,” Walker said, his voice harder than she’d ever heard it And she kneas bad Really bad “I’ll get the cot from the cabin and we can carry him that way”