Drifter's Blues (Erotic Noir) by Tallis P.J

Author:Tallis, P.J. [Tallis, P.J.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-04-03T21:00:00+00:00

Six

Donna floored the accelerator of the Mercedes, sending stumbling merrymakers scurrying for their lives as she tore through the streets. It was Saturday night and the bar crowds were in full flow, which made driving exceptionally difficult.

Shit, she thought, biting her lower lip so hard she tasted blood. Shit, shit.

The dashboard clock said it was eleven fifteen. Kyle had planned to break in at around ten. So if he’d followed his plan, he was probably already on the run, or even in police custody.

Donna had tried to appear as relaxed as possible during dinner, smiling and nodding politely at the banal conversation around her, but all the while she’d been unbearably tense inside, hoping against hope Kyle would bring it off. She’d felt her cellphone buzz twenty minutes ago and had felt an instant stab of exultation. Had he done the deed already and made his escape? She excused herself and went outside in the balmy summer evening air to take the call.

But it wasn’t Kyle.

She listened, the horror expanding in her stomach and chest. Her fist gripped the phone so tightly she heard the metal and plastic creak.

Blair wasn’t where he was supposed to be. He’d left the conference in Atlanta some hours earlier.

Which meant he was either on his way back home, or had arrived there already.

She ended the call, took a long second to center herself and try to slow her hammering heart, then went back in to the dinner. She told her hosts she was a little tired and had to get back. It was late enough that she didn’t think she raised any suspicions, and she kept up the façade of cheerfulness until she was in her car and pulling away.

Had Blair suspected something was up, and was that why he was returning home? Or had he simply decided against a night of passion with Madison and chosen to spend the night in his own bed? It didn’t really matter, Donna knew. Not now. All that mattered was that Blair was more than likely at home and waiting for Kyle. Had in all probability met him already. And God only knew what the outcome of that encounter might be.

Nightmare scenarios played themselves out in her imagination as she drove. Blair had tortured Kyle into confessing on tape to the plan, and to her, Donna’s, involvement in it. Hell, never mind involvement – the whole thing was her idea. Or, alternately, the armed response team had arrived, Kyle had panicked and made a run for it, and he’d been injured, or even killed. She didn’t dare call Kyle’s cellphone in case Blair took the call and traced it to her.

It wasn’t supposed to be like this.

Fighting rising hysteria, Donna brought the Mercedes’ speed down a little. She really didn’t need to be stopped by the cops at this point. At last she came off the Manchester Expressway. In ten minutes she’d be home, and face whatever was waiting for her there.

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