Buried Truth (Mills & Boon Love Inspired Suspense) by Dana Mentink

Author:Dana Mentink [Mentink, Dana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Suspense, Christian, Thrillers, Religious
ISBN: 9781408951415
Google: Hy404nLGycsC
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2011-08-01T19:13:44.332000+00:00

ELEVEN

“Go back to town,” Bill said, keeping his voice low. “Something’s wrong. Saw through the window there’s a bottle of whiskey on the kitchen table.” He saw her raised eyebrow. “Brown doesn’t drink. His wife was killed by a drunk driver and he doesn’t touch a drop.”

Heather blinked, then called past Bill to her mother. “Go back, Dr. Egan. I’m going to stay.”

Bill reached through the window and gripped her wrist. “No, you’re not. Get out of here right now.”

“I can help.”

“No, you can’t.”

She covered his fingers where his hand touched her forearm. “Bill, I … I ran away last time. I left you. I’m not going to do it again.”

A surge of pain and pleasure rippled through him. Those eyes, those amazing eyes still held the embers of love he’d seen in them a year before, but now it was pure and unpolluted by alcohol. There was still love there, or the potential for it anyway, and he’d only have to reach out for it. Being so close to that possibility made him dizzy.

At the same time, the evil was mounting with every minute. The trap that he knew Oscar was setting for him would catch her, too, as it had caught Johnny. He could not watch her be destroyed. He could not watch her life snuffed out and stand by her grave to say the final goodbye. He withdrew his hand and stripped all the emotion from his face.

“Heather, the one thing you will accomplish by staying is make it harder for me to catch Oscar. That’s the only thing I want, the only thing that’s left for me. I want you to drive back to Rockvale and keep going.”

The true meaning of what he’d said crept over her face, along with a flush. She kept her eyes on his for a moment, and then her gaze dropped to her lap.

He forced himself to wait, to breathe, to stop up the words that wanted to flood out and ease the pain on her face. He waited in silence.

She looked up, a sheen of moisture in her eyes, her chin high and strong. “I understand.” She turned the key and pulled out of the long drive. Bill nodded to Egan, who followed a few yards behind.

Ignoring the tearing sensation in his chest, he turned back to the house. No response to the second call to Crow’s phone. The back door of the house was secure, so where was Crow? Searching the shed? Checking the dense thicket of shrubs and dry grass that edged this part of the property?

Gun drawn, Bill was headed for the shed when the sound of movement stopped him. Tank tensed, ears pricked.

He cautioned the dog to stay. With a quiet whine, Tank obeyed until booted feet edged around the corner. Tank went wild and charged, Bill behind him shouting orders, until he realized the figure was Crow, one hand clutching his gun, the other over his heart.

“Off, Tank, you crazy dog. You scared the life out of me,” Crow gasped.

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