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But when he had, she’d been gone.
So maybe he’d just been deluding himself about that joy.
Except—
Wyatt couldn’t move. What if…what if that was why she left? Because she had a…child?Wyatt, we need to talk.
Everything turned to ice inside him. Who was this kid?
She took the little boy’s hand again and walked with him down the street, the boy swinging in his steps between her and the man, laughing.
The hand in Wyatt’s chest cut off his breathing.
Coco had a son. He saw it in the shape of the little boy’s face and that smile, those lips—
His throat thickened.
They drew closer and he should probably hide better, but he still couldn’t move.
Coco had a son andhadn’t told him. Clearly he’d misread everything in Moscow, and…
His stomach turned. What if she hadn’t…well, what if he’d seduced her into something she hadn’t really intended on doing and shame made her run from him?
Wow, he was a jerk.
Wyatt put his hand out on the car, bracing himself, and that’s when he felt something behind him, the cool nose of metal pressed into his back, right at the base of his spine.
“Don’t move.”
Nat. He recognized her voice, the soft tone, but this time with the steel edge of warning.
He stiffened, glanced over his shoulder. “What—?”
She stood behind him, her face hard, eyes narrowing. “Just keep your mouth shut. We’re taking a walk.”
A chill slid down his spine. That’s what assassins said a moment before they walked someone to the edge of a ditch and dropped them.
He held his hands up because that felt right and stepped out from behind the car.
Coco looked up, still thirty yards away.
Time stopped. His heart punched against his rib cage as her smile vanished and her jaw slackened.
The guy next to her frowned, his gaze sliding off Wyatt to the woman behind him.
“Wyatt,” Coco said, so softly he actually didn’t hear it, but saw her lips move.
“Move,” snapped Nat and gave a little push with her gun. Or he thought it might be a gun. Felt like a gun.
In a Jack Reacher novel, it would be a gun.
He took another step forward.
Coco picked up the boy, was holding him against her, as if trying to protect him.
The man stepped in front of her, and didn’tthatdo just a little damage to Wyatt’s heart.
He should be the one stepping in front of her.