CHAPTER 5
THE WOMAN
The woman’s shoulders slumped slightly as she admitted the futility of trying to strike out on her own. Her bodyguards were both lying dead out front in the parking lot. At least one sniper was out there, too, and there were no doubt other people intent on grabbing her – not that she was in any way eager to admit she knew more about the situation than she’d so far let on to the man Ellis and the girl Annie. What they didn’t know couldn’t hurt her, she’d already decided.
She needed to get to a secure phone. Tragically, the one in her vehicle was very much out of reach. The tracking bracelet she normally wore was also sitting on her dresser drawer today, left behind in her haste to get into Lucketts to do some light shopping. It had been one of the few pleasures she al
