Born in Twilight: Twilight Vows by Maggie Shayne

Author:Maggie Shayne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 1997-09-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Hilary Garner ran. She’d seen them coming, seen them surrounding the cabin that had been the only safe haven she could think of for the child. And God help her, she’d stolen the tiny baby right from under their noses back in White Plains. She’d had no idea if the child’s mother was still alive. But her father was. Tamara had received Hilary’s cryptic message, and told her Jameson was on the way.

But it had been impossible to wait for him.

Every day, Hilary had checked in on the newborn. Those big dark eyes, and tiny hands, and satin hair, had enchanted her. And she couldn’t wait. DPI’s roster of experiments had been finalized, and the first of them had been put on Rose Sversky’s schedule. And dammit, Hilary couldn’t wait.

So she’d taken her, and she’d brought her here. And the bastards had found her. One of them must have realized she’d slipped away from the cabin, too, because she could hear them coming. Heavy footfalls, crushing the leaves and twigs as they ran toward her.

She hugged the bundled-up baby tight in her arms. “Don’t worry, honey,” she whispered. “Hilary’s going to take care of you, baby. I promised your mama. And I promised myself. I said I’d watch over you, sweetie, until your daddy came for you, and that’s what I’m gonna do. I swear, I will.”

She ran faster, weaving and ducking through the trees. But the footsteps came closer, louder, and then someone shouted.

“No. Please, God, help me keep my promise!”

Shots rang out in the night, and searing hot hammers seemed to pound her in the back, slamming her body forward.

“Jesus Christ,” a man yelled. “You’ll hit the freaking kid, you idiot!”

She tried to keep going, tried to keep moving. But she lost all the feeling in her legs. They buckled, and she fell to her knees. And then slipped lower. And her arms cradled the baby, and she bent her head to kiss the plump cheek. “I’ll keep my promise,” she whispered.

And even before she finished, the men were looming over her, taking the child from her arms. The one man passed the baby to the other. “Here. Whaley said to radio in when we had her, and then get her into a vehicle headed straight back to headquarters. No stopping. No detours. Got it?”

Hilary weakly turned her head, to see the other one nod once and turn to go. She watched the baby disappearing from her sight. “He’ll…never…make it back there with her,” she managed. “I won’t let him.”

“You aren’t going to be much help to anyone for much longer, Garner.”

“I have to,” she whispered. “I promised.”

He shook his head, his eyes dipping down to her torso, then turning away in disgust. He left her there, shouting to some of the others as he did. “It’s all over here. Let’s get back to the house and transport the others to The Pit.”

“But one is still at large, sir.”

“One, we can handle,” he said. “Later. Let’s be sure the others are taken care of first.

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