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again. Which is what’s going to happen to the two of us too if we don’t get out of here soon,” he added urgently.
    “I-am-not-leaving-them-locked-up!”
    Dair felt a nerve pulsing in his clenched jaw as he saw the determined glitter in her eyes. “How about I make a phone call once we’re well away from here? Report this place to the authorities.” He saw her hesitate. “I’ll do it, Kat. I promise you I will.” He wasn’t any happier about the way this place was run, or the criteria under which the patients were admitted, than Kat obviously was. “Kat, please, we have to go.”
    “I—okay.” She finally nodded her agreement. “I just—” She broke off in obvious alarm as there was the sound of an explosion.
    “A small bomb in the empty laundry room I entered by,” Dair explained economically. “The diversion of the explosion and the ensuing fire should keep most of the staff occupied until we’re well away from here.”
    “You’re very good at this…”
    “Would you rather I wasn’t?” he came back harshly.
    Kat would rather that none of this was happening at all. Not the reason Sergei had put her in here. Or the need for Dair Grayson to rescue her. She certainly didn’t want to think about what would happen to Dair if they didn’t make it out of here—
    No, she really couldn’t think about that right now. They would make it out of here, and once they did she would have to try and think of a way of getting away from Dair. She might even be able to steal some money from him too, to help her disappear—
    “I’m through waiting, Kat,” Dair informed her grimly as he threw her over his shoulder and then kicked open the French doors before moving outside.
    Kat clung helplessly to his muscled back. “Dair—”
    “Not a word, Kat,” he hissed in warning. “Not one bloody word, or we’ll both be caught.”
    She clamped her lips shut. Which wasn’t to say she wouldn’t have plenty to say, once they were safely away from here.
    Dair moved stealthily through the undergrowth of the garden, not even breathing hard from carrying Kat over his shoulder. She saw several dark shapes on the ground as Dair moved determinedly towards the back of the building. She also saw the flames coming out of the windows of one of the rooms, and lots of people milling about attempting to put out the fire.
    Dair was good at this, she acknowledged thankfully; even if they were seen, with Kat thrown over his shoulders it would be assumed that he was rescuing her from the burning building.
    He didn’t put her down on the ground until they had gone through a copse of trees and reached the high wall surrounding the grounds, where a rope dangled down as evidence of how he had gotten into the facility in the first place.
    “Think you can make it or shall I go first and pull you up?” he prompted grimly.
    So far Kat knew she hadn’t made too much of a show of being capable of doing anything; she was going to climb the rope to the top of that wall if it killed her.
    She did make it. Just. And she made it down again on the other side too, with Dair standing at the bottom of the wall to steady her as she dropped to the ground.
    “Good girl.” He nodded approval. “I have a vehicle parked in the woods about a quarter of a mile away.”
    Climbing the wall had taken most of Kat’s strength, but she wasn’t about to admit that to Dair. The sound of sirens in the distance was an added spur as she quickly followed Dair into the darkness and shelter of the trees.
    Even so, she was breathing hard by the time she had stumbled along following him to where a black SUV was parked, and shaking a little too in reaction to the past fifteen minutes of exertion after so many weeks of doing nothing.
    “Get in,” Dair instructed as he looked up and saw the reflection of the lights back on in the grounds of the clinic, and those emergency vehicle sirens sounded much closer too. “Kat!” he prompted sharply as he turned back and