Free Love Inspired Suspense June 2015 #1 by Margaret Daley, Katy Lee

on?”
    He swerved across a lane of traffic and took a hard right, the tires screeching. “We’re being followed.”

FIVE
    â€œW ho’s following us? Where?” Selena twisted around, looking out the rear window.
    Nicholas increased his speed and made another turn. “The white car’s coming around the corner. Hold on. We’re going for a little ride.”
    He’d seen that same car when they’d left the prison. Then it disappeared but reappeared a few streets before he stopped at the light.
    â€œDo you think someone followed us to the prison?” Selena kept peering back as Nicholas pushed the speed limit when he finally left a residential area.
    â€œI don’t think so. We picked this tail up at the prison.” Which made him wonder how. Why? Maybe Selena was on to something about Littleton. This all started after she first visited the man who was convicted of killing one of Senator Eagleton’s interns. Everything led back to Eagleton and Jeffries.
    He made a quick decision and swerved left onto a side street, then right and accelerated down an alley. Another right followed by a sharp turn, which brought him back to the original street.
    â€œI don’t see the car behind us. I think you lost him.” Selena straightened in her seat.
    â€œNot for long.” Nicholas went down the side street a second time. “We’re going hunting. I want to know who is so interested in us.”
    â€œGood. We need answers.”
    He chuckled. “We?”
    â€œYes, you said we would work together on Littleton’s case, or do you want me to do it alone? I will if I have to.”
    He continued down the side street, searching for the white car. “You drive a hard bargain, which doesn’t surprise me. All I can promise is that I’ll keep you informed of what I discover concerning Littleton.”
    â€œAnd Erin?”
    â€œI can’t, for obvious reasons.”
    â€œBecause you still think I’m helping her. Is that the real reason you’re taking such an active role in
protecting
me?”
    Was it? Good question. If he were honest, no. There was something about Selena that attracted him. “It’s more complicated than that.”
    â€œThat’s a cop-out.”
    He spied the rear of a white car turning up ahead and passed the vehicle in front of him.
    Selena leaned forward. “Is that our guy?”
    â€œI think so.” Nicholas took the corner then pressed down on the accelerator, gaining on the car. “Jot down the license-plate numbers.” Suddenly the Dodge shot forward. “I think he knows we’re here. Hang on.”
    Selena dug into her purse and withdrew the pad she’d used at the prison. “I got the numbers.”
    For the next ten minutes, the Dodge weaved through traffic, ran a stop sign and took Nicholas on a merry chase. He closed the distance between the two vehicles when the white car flew through a light when it turned red. Nicholas slammed on his brakes as a school bus pulled into the intersection.
    Selena jerked forward, her seat belt halting her.
    Heartbeat racing, fed by the flow of adrenaline into his system, Nicholas eased his tight grip on the steering wheel and uncurled his fingers. “Are you okay?”
    â€œFine.”
    â€œWe’ve probably lost him.”
    The light flashed green. Nicholas looked both ways then crossed the intersection, heading in the direction the Dodge had gone.
    After a twenty-minute search of the surrounding streets, he pulled over to the curb and called Fiona at headquarters. “I need a favor.”
    â€œAnything for you, if you promise to bring Max by to see me next time y’all are here.”
    â€œI thought you were a cat person.”
    â€œI have cats, but I’m an animal lover.”
    â€œSame here.”
    â€œWhat do you need? Then I’ll give you an update on those videos I’ve been going through.”
    Fiona