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“Who are you?”Pierce demanded and motioned to the unconscious man.“And who the hell is that?”
When she translated, the men again exchanged a glance, and then the man with the piercing blue eyes stepped forward, his expression grim. “I’m Ethan Voss. We’re here to extract you. That man”—he nodded toward the unconscious figure—“is an assassin sent to eliminate you. We intercepted him in the hallway.”
Pierce’s eyes narrowed as he signed rapidly.
Rhiannon translated, “Who sent you?“
Ethan’s gaze flickered between them. “That’s classified.”
“Halston?”Pierce asked.
Something like disgust flickered over Ethan’s face, there and gone so fast Rhiannon almost wondered if she’d imagined it. “You think we’re with Halston? I assure you, we’re not. We’re here to take you to a safe house, away from them.” He motioned to one of his men, who dropped a duffle bag with a heavy thump on the end of the bed. “Get dressed. We need to move. Now.”
Rhiannon glanced between them, her mind racing. Could this be true? They weren’t here to hurt them?
She didn’t trust it. Not yet.
“You expect us to just take your word for it?”
“We don’t have the fucking time for this,” Ethan said, his patience suddenly snapping. He motioned his men forward. “Bring them both. Knock them out if you have to.”
“No,”Pierce signed.“We’ll go.”
“Smart choice. Let’s move.” Ethan spun toward the door. “And leave the dog.”
chapter
twenty
Zak,Donovan, and Sawyer piled into the helicopter with Rylan for the flight to the hospital. Rylan was also surprised to see Izzy there in the co-pilot’s seat. She offered him a faint smile that sent an inappropriate bolt of lust straight down to his cock. He’d been so close to kissing those gorgeous lips just moments ago…
No.
Focus.
He yanked his gaze away from her and watched a man in a rumpled suit running across the grass to them.
Callum Holden jumped into the helicopter, his blond hair tousled by the wind from the rotor.
“What are you doing here?” Rylan asked, genuinely surprised to see the defense attorney.
“In case Pierce needs a lawyer,” Zak said.
Given what they’d found out about the guy this week, it was probably a good call.
There wasn’t room to bring the dogs, save for Sawyer’s seeing-eye dog. Zak’s dog Ranger was particularly perturbed at being left behind. His annoyed barking followed the helicopter until it lifted over the trees, and Redwood Coast Rescue disappeared.
When they touched down on the hospital’s landing pad, Sheriff Ash Rawlings was waiting for them.
The team disembarked quickly, with Rylan’s eyes inadvertently seeking out Izzy as she gracefully exited the cockpit.
What was it about the woman that kept drawing his gaze?
He forced his attention back to the sheriff, whose grim expression had his stomach dropping like a rock.
“They’re gone,” Ash said without preamble.
“What do you mean they’re gone?”
