Chapter 63
When Kate returned to the Inverlochy, she was met at the gate by Terry and three other agents.
“Here’s your car back, safe and sound. I just needed to get out for a bit.”
Terry didn’t say a word, so she tossed the keys to the guy at the gate and headed up the drive. They grouped about her tightly, too tightly. There was a difference between a safety escort and the escort for a suspect, and she knew the latter even if she hadn’t been in the center of one before.
Halfway back to the hotel, where the driveway made a blind curve through the hedgerows, she turned to confront Terry.
Before she completed the turn, two agents had grabbed her arms, and another slid a thin cord tight around her throat. Any attempt to struggle and she’d choke herself.
Despite that, she barely resiste
