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Had they waited until they left, knowing they had time? Even here in the middle of nowhere, they’d fallen into a pattern. Everything that Marcus and Sarah had taught them about varying their patterns and schedules had fallen away because they thought they’d been hidden.
So fucking stupid.
Logan shoved the pictures back into the bag and into the suitcase. “I don’t know what any of this means, but it’s not safe here. Not anymore.”
She nodded and rushed to the closet once more. Ten minutes later, the Escalade was packed and they were making their way back down the trails. Anything they’d missed could be shipped. And he’d call Richard once they were far enough away from cabin and whatever prying eyes had been watching them.
For goddamn weeks.
Since almost the start.
A few of the pictures had been when Izzy had been skinnier and paler from the accident. You could practically watch her progression in the shots.
He curled his fingers around the steering wheel. The snow had gotten progressively worse, and visibility was nonexistent. Did their spy wait for them to come home so they could follow them?
He didn’t know what to do, so he focused on the one thing he could accomplish. Get down the mountain and into an area where he could call for help.
“Should we go to the police?”
Those were the first words she’d spoken since they’d packed up. Fiona was finally asleep in the back of the truck. She’d whined for the first hour. She was so in tune with Izzy that any changes in her mood seemed to affect the dog as well.
And Izzy had gone radio silent.
Trying to navigate the roads took all his concentration, so he couldn’t exactly drag her into a conversation. Not to mention his brain was a jumble of emotions that he couldn’t begin to untangle right now.
So they’d been silent, with the emergency travel channel alerting them to any problems and the GPS working overtime to connect with the satellites and get them off the river road and into a town with a cell tower.
Why hadn’t he gotten them lost in a big city? At least a city had a means of protection for her.
Not this.
This no man’s land that was inviting trouble as much as it shielded from it.
The whir of the traction controls sounded like a scream in the silence of the car. He wrestled with the wheel and the slide of the tires on the turn. “Fuck. Hold on.”
The SUV went into a drift as they slowly slid through an s-curve decline. The ass of the truck bumped into a guard and they fishtailed into another turn. Thank God there hadn’t been another car on the road because they’d gone right into the next lane.
A full turn then another half had them pointing the wrong way on the mountain when they finally shuddered to a halt. Izzy’s hands were flat on the dash and Fiona tumbled from one side of the car to the other.
“Are you all right?”
She dragged in a breath and nodded. Fiona shoved her big head between their seats and whined until Isabella rubbed her ears and buried her face in her neck. She clutched his leg as he put the car in gear.
“Hang on, we have to turn around.”
A pair of headlights made him gun it where he would have slowly eased into the turn. He slid toward the shoulder and slowed to a stop well out of the line of traffic. She leaned across the console and he gathered her close. Fiona pushed between them and one hundred and twenty pounds of dog shuddered in their arms as she tried to crawl up front.
“No, Fi. It’s okay.” Izzy stroked her big head and pushed her back into the bench seat. She reclined her seat. “I’m going to crawl back there. I don’t want her to do something stupid because she’s scared.”
“Buckle up.”
She nodded and crawled into the back. Fiona practically crawled into her lap, the windows fogging up with her panting.
Logan turned up the defrosters and rubbed at the windows with his sleeve. “We have to get off this thing.”
“I agree.”
“Do you have a signal on your phone?”
