Found Wanting by Joyce Lamb

Author:Joyce Lamb [Lamb, Joyce]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Suspense, Fiction, Contemporary, Romance
ISBN: 9781410402295
Google: c0s1AAAACAAJ
Amazon: 1410402290
Publisher: Five Star Trade
Published: 2005-08-01T21:00:00+00:00

She swung around and slapped him. And it was as if the violent action released a torrent of rage and emotion. "How dare you! How dare you say this is nonsense!" The next time she hit him, it was with her fist.

Catching her wrist before she struck him again, he twisted her around, wrapped one arm around her waist and pulled her tightly against him, trapping both her arms against her body. He didn't know how else to subdue her without getting a knee in the groin or an elbow in the gut. At the same time, he was all too aware of how they must have looked on the shoulder of the highway. All he needed was for some Good Samaritan to pull over and try to help the damsel in distress. Luckily, no cars had passed them since he had grabbed her.

Against him, Alaina squirmed, groaning her frustration through gritted teeth. He felt her muscles coil and strain, as if she were trying to get leverage to flip him over her shoulder. He was surprised he was able to hold her so easily. In their earlier skirmishes, she'd proved a worthy and strong opponent. But she was weak now, exhausted both mentally and physically. And that seemed to frustrate her all the more.

"Let me go."

The emotion in her voice nearly broke his resolve, but he steeled himself and held on, conscious of her racing pulse in the wrist clamped in his hand. It beat against his palm like a frantic bird trying to escape a glass cage. Her already weakening struggles and sobbing breath made his throat ache. "You're safe with me, Alaina. I promise. You can trust me."

"Let me go, damn you!"

He held fast. "Listen to me. I'm going to help you get Jonah back. That's what you want, isn't it?"

She continued to strain against his grip, but he sensed her attention had focused.

"Think about where you'll be if you walk away from me," he went on. "You have no way of getting to Keller. If you contact him, he'll just send another hired thug after you. You're not safe with the FBI. That's obvious after tonight. But I know where Keller lives."

Her body tensed again, but it was the tension of someone who was listening intently.

"We're going to go somewhere safe," he said. "Where Keller's hired killers can't find you. Because if you end up dead, Jonah's out of luck. Right?"

She relaxed some, her breath hitching.

He took that to mean he had gotten through to her. "I know you have no reason to believe I'm on your side," he said. "But I'm willing to prove it to you if you give me a chance."

She didn't respond for a long moment, but she also didn't try to fight him anymore. Finally, she whispered, "Please let me go."

He released her. Facing him, she studied him while rain ran down her face in rivulets. It reminded him of the first time he'd looked into her eyes, when she'd been flat on her back in the street after being hit by the cab.

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