Her Sheik Protector by Conrad Linda

Author:Conrad, Linda [Conrad, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-07-05T05:00:00+00:00

After a quick stop in the compartment’s tiny toilet to freshen up, Darin ushered Rylie to the dining car. Eager to go in search of the Taj Zabbar assailant whom he felt sure had boarded the train with them, Darin frantically ran through ideas in his head for a way to keep her safe in the meantime.

“Oh, look at the golden eagle.” Rylie pointed out the window to a large bird, soaring in and out of sunset’s shadows on the springtime updrafts.

The waiter seated them at a small table set with white tablecloth and sterling utensils. Rylie still didn’t take her eyes off the picturesque sight out the window.

“I never believed anything could be this beautiful.”

The train was climbing higher, moving slowly past mountain pines and dwarf spruce. Up ahead the ice-covered Alps with their rose-colored peaks were brushed in a golden glow of the setting sun. They stood like a line of sentinels guarding the Swiss-Italian border.

“Would you like me to order a bottle of wine?” he asked to recapture her attention. “A nice Tuscan cabernet or perhaps one of the Masseto merlots?” Maybe with enough alcohol in her system, she would become sleepy and he could lock her safely in their compartment while he searched the cars for their assailant. Or perhaps the porter could scare up a couple of sleeping pills.

“I’d better not. I don’t suppose they have sweet iced tea on this train?”

“I’m sure they don’t.” His chances of locking her away for safety appeared to be more and more remote.

“My ears just popped.”

“It’s the altitude. We’ll be traveling through the Gotthard Pass a little after midnight and dropping into the Ticino valley a couple of hours later. You’ll probably experience the effects of more altitude changes by then.”

They ordered dinner and ate a meal of spring veal and gnocchi. Whie she was drinking the espresso he hadn’t wanted her to order, Darin realized it had grown late and they were the sole occupants of the car. Maybe it was time to try putting a scare into her. That could make her stay out of his way.

He withdrew the Taj Zabbar letter from his pocket. “Do you see this letter?”

She jerked it from his hand and frowned at what must have looked like jibberish to her. “Is this what you found today? A letter? In the Taj Zabbar language? What’s it say?”

“It’s an order from one of their elders to one of their soldiers. An order demanding the capture and transportation of you—or your body—to a meeting place in Milan tomorrow.”

“Me?” She actually had the nerve to beam at him. “Think of that. I wonder how I got to be so important.”

This was not the reaction he had anticipated.

“It’s nothing to joke about. They want you dead. These men are beyond dangerous, Rylie. You need to give them a wide berth. We’ve intercepted messages from them before that tell about torture and seduction of young women for both profit—and for fun. Stay out of their line of sight.

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