Harlequin Intrigue December 2017--Box Set 1 of 2 by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488016196
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

Harry rubbed his gloved hands together, keeping them warm as the visiting team’s bus left the parking lot. He was more of a football guy than a basketball fan, but he knew enough about high-school sports to know the players and their coaches were generally the last people to leave the building. He bounced on the balls of his feet as two more cars followed the bus onto the main road. That left just his truck, a van and two other vehicles in the nearly empty parking lot.

“Come on, Daisy.”

The images of how some sicko wanted to hurt her made his skin crawl. The bad joke gifts, graphic pictures and Peeping Tom all said coward to him. Daisy’s stalker wasn’t brave enough to confront her face-to-face. But he sure seemed to be getting off on scaring her, on watching her from afar and savoring how his psychological terror campaign controlled her life. He didn’t understand enough about profiling to know whether her stalker had some skewed idea of love for her, or if this obsession was some kind of punishment.

But a coward like that could become unpredictable in a heartbeat if he thought his control over her was slipping—just like Daisy’s ex. She’d been brutally honest in one of her letters about the night her ex had come after her with a knife. She’d wanted Harry to know that she could deal with the things he’d shared with her, that she was a survivor and that she was stronger for it. But a woman like Daisy, with such zest for people and life, should never be punished or controlled like that. Acid churned in the pit of his stomach at the thought of someone hurting her like that again.

He’d never thought he’d be stepping up for guard duty for a chatty, compassionate free spirit. For months now, he’d focused solely on fixing himself—and that project wasn’t complete yet. Did he really think he had what it took to keep Daisy safe?

Like right now, Harry had a bad feeling about the number of vehicles left in the parking lot.

But then he was the one whose head wasn’t on straight. He had a bad feeling about almost everything these days, seeing an enemy where there was none. He knew the van belonged to the custodian on duty tonight because the guy had come out for a cigarette during the second game. The well-appointed Cadillac must belong to the principal. Harry had seen him at more than one door, locking up. The other car could be abandoned for all he knew. It had a yellow sticker on the windshield, so it belonged to someone who worked at or went to the school.

He stopped at the front of his truck again. Although he couldn’t see any movement through the bank of glass doors at the front of the building, the lights were still on inside the lobby and gymnasium, so chances were that Daisy was just fine.

He probably shouldn’t have left her alone for this long.

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