Bone Deep by Webb Debra

Author:Webb, Debra [Webb, Debra]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Stephen King, Kay Hooper, murder, Romantic Thriller, secrets, small town, sixth sense, lies, twins, cloning, Dean Koontz, FBI
Publisher: Pink House Press
Published: 2013-06-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Paul stood in the corridor outside the trauma room where the paramedics had taken Jill. Her mother was two doors down. Terror throbbed in his veins. A nurse or doctor or someone had tried to herd him back into the ER waiting area, but he’d refused to go.

The cop covering the so-called accident had taken one look at the rage in Paul’s eyes and backed off. The paramedics had assured him that both Jill and her mother were okay, no serious injuries. But he wouldn’t be satisfied until he saw her with his own eyes. Until he touched her... held her in his arms.

He closed his eyes and fought to keep it together.

He couldn’t lose her.

That realization startled him.

A wayward neuron that misfired. A mental receptor that either absorbed too much or too little of a necessary chemical, triggering a primal response that he couldn’t deny. Panic hit him in the gut like a sledgehammer.

He hadn’t wanted to come here. To take this case. But he’d done it to get Lawton off his back. What had he accomplished? Nothing. He was supposed to help but he hadn’t made a difference fast enough. Hadn’t kept Jill from harm. He didn’t care what the police called it... Paul knew deep in his gut that foul play was somehow involved. The evil smoldering here had touched her... almost stealing her life. Just one more reminder of the balance of power. They were in control. Paul and Jill were fighting an uphill battle where the ultimate stakes and the rules of engagement were unclear. At this point they couldn’t even name the bad guys.

But the evil was close…Jill was standing on the edge of a deep, dark abyss. One he knew well. Too well.

It wasn’t until he’d gotten the call about the accident that he’d realized just how deeply she’d gotten to him. He wanted Jill on a level he’d denied himself for so long he’d forgotten it was even there. He thought of the feel of her skin beneath his lips when he’d kissed her earlier today. Why hadn’t he driven them to the service? He swallowed hard, tasting the regret that served no purpose except to remind him that he was a fool too many times over.

“Dr. Phillips?”

His head came up at the sound of the nurse’s voice.

“Yes.”

She stood outside the door of Jill’s room. “You can go in now. The doctor would like to speak with you.”

Renewed fear collided with the knot of anxiety in his gut. “Thank you.” He took a breath and opened the door. Jill was sitting on the exam table, smiling feebly, falsely. A fighter, he thought, she didn’t give up so easily.

Uncertainty crushed in on his chest when he took in the whole picture. She had an angry red lump on her forehead above her left eye. Her neck and arms were covered in dried blood. Lots of it. His heart dropped to the floor.

“Her mother had a laceration on her forehead near the hairline. That’s where the blood came from,” the doctor explained quickly.

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