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through it. Then he turned to the left. A few moments later, he took a hard right. He would make sure no one followed his trail.
    “Are you hurt?” he demanded. Things had moved so fast that he hadn’t been able to check and make sure none of those flying bullets had hit her.
    “No.”  Hushed. Then… “How did they find us?”
    “Taggert has his men looking for you.” She was obviously a prize that Taggert wasn’t going to let go. “In this town, people will sell out their own mothers for the right amount of money. Someone saw us, someone with the wrong connection to Taggert’s men.” One possible explanation and the only story he’d give her right then. The second explanation? Well, that would be that someone in the FBI had sold them out to Taggert. Victor’s team would have known about Elizabeth’s extraction from that bar. They would have known about her temporary safe house at the motel.
    Did one of those team members turn on us?
    The idea that an FBI agent had turned on him sure as hell pissed Saxon off. Because if someone had offered him up to Taggert… Maybe Jenny didn’t screw up and blow her cover after all. Maybe someone sold her out…the same way they just tried to serve us up to Taggert on a silver platter.
    “You saved my life…” There was a faint pause. “Again.”
    He took the right turn up ahead. “So where’s my—”
    “Thank you,” Elizabeth told him softly, “now how about you slow down so that you aren’t the one to kill us both?”
    He smiled and slowed down.
    But his gaze kept sliding back to the rear-view mirror.  There was no sign of pursuers behind them, not yet.
    He had to find a safe place for her, then he needed to contact the only guy he actually trusted with his life—Victor had better have a way out of this nightmare.
    Because Saxon wasn’t just going to sit idly by while some jackass tried to kill him.
    I’ll fight back, and any fools who come after me—they’ll die.
    Freedom was too close. No one would take this chance at a new life away from him. No one.

Chapter Four
    “Here.”
    Elizabeth turned at Saxon’s gruff voice and she saw him sliding back into the truck with a bag in his hands.  He offered the bag to her, and, a bit nervously, she peered inside.
    Shoes.  Tennis shoes.  For her.
    “I know, they clash like hell with your skirt, but you can’t keep running around barefoot.”
    They’d stopped long enough to fill up at that station/shop, and she sure hadn’t expected him to bring her back a gift. She put the shoes on quickly, and so what if they were a little big? They were heaven to her feet.
    He cranked the truck and got them out of there, not going too fast this time, and she was sure glad he’d ditched his devil-may-care speed. “I also picked up a burner phone while I was inside,” he told her. “At our next stop, I’ll check in with Victor.”
    Their next stop. Right. They were pretty much in the middle of nowhere. She looked to the left and only saw the Everglades. To the right—same thing.  “Where are we going?”
    His jaw tightened as he kept his stare on the road. “There’s a little cabin up ahead. It’s real secluded, and, in a spot like that, we’ll have plenty of warning if we get any unwanted visitors.”
    Warning they hadn’t exactly gotten in the motel room.
    “I keep thinking this is a bad dream.” No, she kept hoping it was. “What could I have done that made someone want to kill me?”  To know that someone out there hated her so much…goosebumps rose on her arms.
    “You threw over Wesley Locke. The guy doesn’t exactly take no for an answer.”
    Her hands gripped the dashboard. “He’s really a…criminal?” He’d seemed so nice, so sophisticated and cultured. Every time they’d been together, he’d played the perfect gentleman.
    “One the FBI has been trying to take down for years.”
    She truly had the worst luck with men.
    “But for him to come after you with guns blazing like this…you