The Only Witness (42 page)

Where was she? He looked out her bedroom window. The wind gusted and tree limbs scraped the walls behind him, reminding him that he needed to get out of here. The file said Langston Green covered sixty-five acres. His gaze roamed the fields to the south. Pitch black out there, except for a dim yellow ember of light in a far corner. What the heck was that?

A voice penetrated the cold fog that claimed her. “Elisa?”

She opened her eyes to the harsh glare of the moon shining directly into her eyes. But then, in a startling maneuver, it retreated upward, its light forming a smoky halo around a man’s silhouette. It had been a flashlight, then. But who—?

The Gremlin! Her heart leapt into flight mode. Her fingers dug trenches in the dirt. The pepper spray she'd carried for just this moment lay out of reach somewhere near her right foot. She was a trembling bug on a pin, completely at his mercy.

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