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He turned down another street, coming from another angle into the street his house sat on. The closer they
got, the thicker was the feeling of danger.
He pulled off into an alley, stopped the truck, and shut off the lights. Mark and Tyrell moved in behind him.
“Stay here. ” He opened the glove box and pulled free his backup weapon. Checking the clip and flipping on the safety, he handed it to her. “You know what to do?”
She nodded, staring back at him with wide, fear-filled eyes.
“Good girl. I’m just going to talk to Mark and Tyrell. I’ll be right back. ”
She licked her lips nervously but nodded.
“Stay safe for me, baby. ” He cupped her cheek, bent his head, and kissed her quickly before stepping from the truck. The dome lights were disconnected; there wasn’t even a glimmer of light as he stepped from the truck.
“I wondered if you felt it. ” Mark was armed. He carried his automatic rifle close to his leg, between his body and the truck. “Closer we get, the thicker it is. ”
“Question is, how many are we dealing with?” Alex murmured.
“Can’t be more than one. ” Tyrell rubbed at his jaw. “Every indication we have is a single stalker.
Whoever it is has some serious shit going on, though. I’ve been feeling this since we left the restaurant.
We were followed, somehow. When you started cutting through town and taking other routes, it eased.
But the closer we get to the house, the more nervous I’m getting. ”
Alex nodded and glanced around the alley. Instinct, they called it. A sixth sense for danger that made no sense to anyone except those who had managed to survive because of it.
They were sheltered by the garage at one side and a stand of pines that bordered a yard across the alley.
It was a short, narrow little road protected from all sides. Alex’s house was on the next street over.
There wasn’t a lot of cover going in, but there weren’t a lot of places to hide, unless someone was stalking from the neighboring trees and yard.
“We could call the Mackays in,” Tyrell suggested. “Have them come in quiet. ”
Alex shook his head. “If we don’t show up soon, the stalker could get spooked and run. ”
He was torn. Catching the stalker while they had the chance was imperative. He was waiting on them at the house. Slipping up on him would be easy, Alex thought. Alex knew this place like the back of his hand. It was home territory; he knew the shadows and how to move within them.
“Other options?” Mark questioned him.
“Send Janey to the marina and we go in on foot,” Alex murmured.
“Think she’ll go?” Mark asked.
Alex sighed. “No. ” He looked back in the truck and met her worried, concerned gaze. She didn’t like being out of this conversation.
“Stay with her and we’ll check it out,” Mark suggested.
Alex shook his head and stared around the alley again. He was the best tracker there, and that left only a few options. They had a chance to catch the stalker here and now, or they could wait and let the bastard surprise them another day. But he had Janey with him.
“Mark, do you still have the extra communication sets you stole from headquarters?”
Mark stared at him blankly, then grimaced. “Fuck, how did you know I had those?”
“Are they in the truck?”
