I'll Find You by Nancy Bush

Author:Nancy Bush [Bush, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Retail, Thriller
ISBN: 9781420134629
Amazon: 1420134620
Barnesnoble: 1420134620
Publisher: Zebra Books
Published: 2014-06-24T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Callie’s heart raced as she moved forward. This couldn’t be happening. They were right in the hotel lobby. It would be laughable if it wasn’t so frightening. Was he thinking of taking her hostage? Where was his car? Her heart was galloping in her chest. “You’ve made a mistake,” she said again.

“No.”

“I’m not Teresa, if that’s who you think I am.”

He whipped her around and glared into her eyes. He was tall and had a close-cropped salt-and-pepper beard surrounding a florid face. His clothes were casual but expensive. His anger was palpable, but she’d never seen him before in her life.

And he got a jolt looking her square in the face, too. She saw it in the widening of his eyes. “What are you up to?” he demanded.

“I told you. I’m . . . Callie Cantrell.”

“Shut the fuck up. This is some trick!”

“No . . . no trick.”

“Who are you?” he demanded. “Where’s Tara?”

Tara was close to Teresa. Callie’s mind jumped from thought to thought. “I don’t know. I don’t know.”

They were deep into a tense conversation. To the outside world it might appear as a lovers’ quarrel. “You know where she is. This is some game.”

Callie just stared at him mutely. She didn’t have any argument that seemed to wash. But since it was the second time in two days that she’d been mistaken for another woman, she suspected there was some connection between Tara and Teresa. “When did you see Tara?” she asked.

“Last night.” He glared at her, unwilling to admit his mistake just yet.

“You were with her last night?” Callie repeated, her pulse leaping.

“Ah, you know her!” He jumped on that.

“No, I’m looking for someone who looks like me as well. Her name’s Teresa.”

“Old Sal said you were hustling here before, about six years ago. He recognized you, too.”

“But it wasn’t me,” she reminded him, and he stared into her face in consternation.

She realized the hard object pressed against her spine was not a gun but the end of a table knife, which he now held loosely in his hand.

“What’s going on here?” West’s voice rang out behind him. The guy whipped around, sizing West up.

“It’s all right,” Callie said quickly, before the situation could get further out of hand. “He thinks I’m someone named Tara.”

“Yeah?” West assessed the man coldly. She realized he was poised on the balls of his feet. He looked dangerous and determined, and she was glad to see him.

“You part of this con?” the man asked West.

“No con.” West carefully gestured toward Callie, not making any sudden moves. “Her name’s Callie Cantrell. I’m sure she told you that.” He flicked a look to her over the man’s shoulder and she nodded vigorously.

The man slowly started to relax his belligerent stance. “Egan Rivers isn’t a man to toy with,” he said.

West said, “You’ve just made a mistake.”

“If I have, I apologize. Remains to be seen.” He kept his gaze on West several moments longer, then shook his head and stalked back inside, toward the far end of the bar.

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