A Ghost of a Chance by Evelyn Klebert

Author:Evelyn Klebert [Klebert, Evelyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction, Suspense, Fantasy, Visionary & Metaphysical
ISBN: 9781887560504
Google: xyDWkrHOupoC
Amazon: 1887560505
Publisher: Cornerstone Book Publishers
Published: 2005-04-15T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

She didn’t know where he led her, and for the most part, she didn’t care. She just felt alive and free for the first time in, well probably for the first time. Hallie had dropped the gun somewhere along the way. It didn’t seem to matter much as they flew through the cool night in a convertible. She’d never been in one before but secretly had wanted to. The car they escaped in seemed to be the last of her influence. After that, the power had shifted or rather the control of the dream. She knew that. Things had gone crazy inside the restaurant, and then she had relinquished it all to Jack. Somewhere outside of Monica’s Mexican dive he had grabbed both her hands and said, “Trust me.”

And she did, without words. She had placed herself in his hands wholeheartedly without reservation – just content to enjoy the heck out of the wild ride they were on.

For a moment, as they drove through the night Hallie had closed her eyes, and felt an incredible pull. Something was trying to pull her back to her house in Virginia, but she resisted it. She wasn’t ready to return. Going back would mean leaving the man beside her. And for some reason, that she didn’t want to verbalize, she was enormously reluctant to do that just now.

When she opened her eyes again, they were driving through a busy traffic-filled city that she didn’t recognize. It was still dark, still the middle of the night she assumed.

“Where are we?” she said.

He put his arm around her, pulling her nearer to his warm body. “We’re in my town.”

They parked on the side of an impressively tall shiny building and headed toward its impressively large brass-accented entrance. Jack had his arm around her as he ushered her forward. “It’s all right,” he whispered in her ear.

A man in a bellman’s uniform greeted them almost at once as they entered. “Good evening Mr. Brennan. We’ve missed you here sir.”

“Thank you Wallace. I’ve missed being here.” Hallie looked at Jack’s face. There was something there, a sadness that lighted across his features.

“Are you all right?” she asked him as they headed to a nearby elevator.

He kissed her softly on the cheek never letting her stray very far from him. “Yes, I just haven’t been home in awhile.”

He didn’t know quite what to expect when he opened the door of his 14th floor New York City apartment. He’d done well as a cooperate lawyer; made plenty of money; lived in a nice place; drove a nice car; but had lived a life that now seemed in most respects to have been absolutely futile and aimless.

He kept holding Hallie close to him. Because he was all too aware that at any moment the dream could end. He was a bit incredulous that it had not already. “It,” whatever the hell “it” was, had pulled out everything and the kitchen sink to ruin him in Hallie’s eyes. But she

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