Duplicate Daughter by Alice Sharpe - Dead Ringer 02 - Duplicate Daughter

Author:Alice Sharpe - Dead Ringer 02 - Duplicate Daughter [Sharpe, Alice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Suspense, Fiction
ISBN: 9780263857252
Google: M5rILgBZgDcC
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2005-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

THE EARLY TWILIGHT hours approached as Nick opened the hangar door and parked the snowmobile outside, ready to give Kitty a ride back to her house. They’d seen no sign of Carson.

Anxious to see if his father had rallied under Kitty’s care, Nick was still chagrined he’d not thought of getting Kitty involved earlier on. His conscious mind offered as reasonable excuses the unknown gunman, the cut telephone wires, the impossibility of leaving the house until their headlong flight to get his father away from Frostbite. To get Lily away, to get Katie away, and Helen. All decent explanations for such an obvious oversight.

But were there deeper reasons he didn’t want to face?

Did it matter?

Bill was still feverish but he had a touch more color in his face. Kitty, a woman somewhere in her early sixties with silky white hair and blue eyes that never missed a thing, had taken expert care of the wound and delivered the proper pain medication. Kitty wouldn’t accept a penny for her help, but Nick knew her house was always in need of some kind of maintenance. In a small and relatively secluded town like Frostbite, a lot of business was conducted on the barter system.

Nick gave Kitty a ride on the snowmobile, and stayed long enough for her to scold him for dillydallying around while the wounded man deteriorated. With dire threats delivered in her no-nonsense manner, she ordered him to get the man to a doctor posthaste before the infection spread.

She didn’t ask who the stranger was or how he came to be shot or why they’d asked her to take notes of anything he mumbled. She didn’t ask who Katie was or why Katie and Nick were both armed or what had happened to Lily. Nick thought her one of the least curious and most dependable people he’d ever met. And she reported his father hadn’t said a single intelligible word.

He got back to the hangar in time to see the first snowflakes of a new storm approaching. In record-breaking time, he got the plane out of the hangar and onto the runway, refueled and checked out and ready to go. He didn’t mention to Katie that the red-and-white plane was gone.

Katie stayed inside the plane with his father, bathing his forehead, listening for him to say something that would help.

“We’re flying off into the wild blue yonder,” Nick said, once the plane left the ground, “and besides knowing we have to get my father to Doc, I don’t have the slightest idea what to do next.”

Katie was leaning over the seat, her face close to his so she could hear him. How she managed to smell so good after the hours they’d spent traveling back and forth was a wonder to him.

She kissed his cheek and said, “You’ll figure something out.” Then she was gone, back to the rear of the plane, back to attend to his father, and he was left with a tingling sensation on his cheek that seemed to rattle what was left of his brain.

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