Slowly, she turned her head back toward the mouth of the alley. For a second, she saw nothing. Just random people passing by going about their day. Was she being paranoid? It was possible. The fear of almost getting caught could have sent her senses into overdrive; even her own shadow could spook her.
If only that were the case.
It took a second, but Beth saw him. A man. Standing just beyond the edge of the alley. He wasn’t walking by like the rest. No. This man stood still, watching her.
Her breath caught. He wasn’t dressed in a black suit like the men she’d seen with Santiago. No. This one wore a pair of dark jeans and a white T-shirt like a regular person, but that told her nothing. There was every possibility that this man was part of the men who had kidn*pped Kaleth in the first pl
