Elevator, The by Hunt Angela

Author:Hunt, Angela [Hunt, Angela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises
Published: 2012-09-17T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

Isabel curls into the corner and wraps her arms more tightly around her legs. Though the car is warm and perspiration has dampened her forehead, an uncontrollable current moves through her body, shivering the coward that lives within her skin.

These gringas are trying to act brave, but still they talk of dying. What do they know of death? The one with red hair says she has been reviewing her life, but her hand is weighted with a diamond big enough to choke an iguana. What will she review, all the presents she has received? The comfort she has known?

The other woman, the younger one, speaks too loudly and too quickly. She is trying to fool herself into thinking they will be rescued at any moment, just as Isabel once thought the policía would protect her family.

She used to dream of such crazy things. She dreamed of dancing with a handsome man and being called beautiful. She dreamed of having babies and going to church with her husband and laughing with the other village women as she worked to care for her own family.

Yes, she has a family now, but she is too afraid to go to church, too terrified to hope for happiness and too ashamed of her fear to pray for courage. Carlos pretends not to care that Rafael is not his son, just as he pretends she is beautiful. He is a good man, sometimes a foolish man, and he will be dead if Isabel does anything to attract the wrong kind of attention.

If she makes a single mistake, her family will be killed.

Ernesto promised he would find her if she ran away. The authorities in America can be bribed, he warned her, and they watch everyone, all the time. So if you run from me, chica, I will find you. I will pay many American dollars to find where you are, and I will come in the dark and cut you while you sleep.

Carlos does not understand why she wants to work the night shift.

Why she can only sleep in the day.

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