Dead Little Darlings by Herron Rita

Author:Herron, Rita
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romantic Suspense
Publisher: Beachside Reads
Published: 2019-02-18T16:00:00+00:00

Marilyn borrowed a pair of sweats and one of Ryker’s sweatshirts, tugged on her raincoat and drove to her loft.

The fact that he’d held her and comforted her last night without question humbled her—and made her feel closer to him than she ever had before.

She scanned the parking deck to make certain no one was watching her, then hurried up the back staircase of the building to the main lobby. A noise down the hall startled her, and she swung around and dropped her keys.

Voices . . . just her neighbors. She was safe.

A mother pushed her infant in the stroller toward the elevator, giving the little girl a running play of their plans for the day. For a brief second, something tugged inside Marilyn.

The yearning to have a little one of her own?

She quickly pushed aside the feeling that her biological clock was ticking as she entered the elevator. She’d seen the hardships her mother faced as a single parent. Her life was too complicated for a child. She wasn’t married.

Ryker might not want kids.

She halted, wondering where those thoughts had come from. She’d never experienced maternal instincts before. Or thought about marriage.

Except even as a little girl, she’d wanted to save that baby from that monster.

She made a mental note to research infants who’d been abandoned around the time of Deborah Darling’s death.

After exiting the elevator, she hurried to her unit and unlocked the door. As she stepped inside, she checked the security alarm and visually scanned the living area. A relieved breath escaped her. No one was inside.

Senses still alert, she hurried to her bedroom, and flipped on the light. But she froze in the doorway, her lungs straining for air.

Someone had been here. The articles and photos she’d tacked on her desk wall had been ripped into pieces. Fear pulsing through her, she scanned her room, then stepped to the closet and looked inside. The intruder wasn’t there.

She slipped her phone from her purse to call Ryker as she inched toward the bathroom.

Lipstick . . . on her mirror. A warning.

Unable to breathe for a moment, she simply stared at the scrawled angry message.

Then she slowly backed away. Back into the bedroom. Her mind trying to process what she was seeing.

The torn pieces of her research, the message written in red lipstick that looked like blood.

Hand shaking, she pressed Ryker’s number.

He answered on the second ring. “Hey, sexy,” he murmured. “I didn’t expect to hear—”

“Ryker, someone broke into my condo.”

A heartbeat passed. “Is the intruder still there?”

Marilyn frantically glanced around the bedroom, then hurried back to the living room. “No, I don’t think so.”

Ryker’s breath rushed out. “Keep the doors locked. I’ll be right there.”

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