(2001) Beachcomber by Karen Robards

Author:Karen Robards [Robards, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense, Romance, Mystery
ISBN: 9780743453493
Publisher: Pocket Star Books
Published: 2001-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

17

SHE WASN’T HEAVY, but her limp body was awkward, especially now that it was wet with rain and slippery with mud. Strong as he was, he had to struggle to lift her, and even when he got her over his shoulder it was difficult to keep her in place.

Damn the rain anyway, it was complicating everything.

For one thing, he was in his work truck, not his camper. He hadn’t really thought he’d be able to take her, not tonight, so he wasn’t as prepared as he might have been.

But just as he had known she would, the pretty little gazelle had finally ventured within reach. He’d been patient, even though he didn’t really have time for patience. He’d been following her, waiting for his chance, knowing that sooner or later it would come. His chance always came.

When her car had come swooping out of the garage, he’d been caught by surprise, though, he had to admit. He’d thought she was fixed there for the night, and he’d just decided that urgent as the need to take her was, he didn’t want to chance another break-in. What she’d bought that day had been a factor; if she was buying bullets, she had to have a gun. No way was he risking getting himself shot. Now that she was on guard, it would be better to try to take her unawares, sometime when she was out and about.

Like tonight.

With one arm clamped around her body to hold her in place, he trudged toward her car, his head bent against the downpour. The field was a sea of mud. It sucked at his feet, making walking difficult. He tried to hurry, because it was always possible that someone would come along and catch him in their headlights, or see her car smashed against the tree. But he didn’t have his usual strength. The beast was asleep, and he was on his own.

It was because of her hair. He hated it. It was ugly. It turned him off. What she had done to herself amounted to a desecration. Even Terri was more attractive to him now. More attractive to the beast.

Which was probably just as well.

They knew he was here. Which meant that, as much as he liked his tropical paradise, he was going to have to leave. To stay in the game he required fresh pastures and anonymity.

The newspaper article about him had been a wake-up call. He’d picked one up at the hardware store and read it, and even before he’d finished he’d known that he was finished in the Outer Banks. He was going to have to pack up and get out. They’d be hunting him again, the cops, coming after him with their computers and their DNA bases and their profilers. It was déjà vu all over again.

It was too bad, because he liked it here. Beach babes were his thing, he’d discovered. A girl in a bikini held no surprises. What you saw was what you got.

He liked that they’d given him a name, too: the Beachcomber.

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