In Search of the Dove by Rebecca York

Author:Rebecca York
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin Treasury
Published: 1986-11-12T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Jessica threw down the science fiction novel she’d been staring at for the past fifteen minutes. She couldn’t concentrate on slug invaders from Titan when she was worried about Michael.

It was very possible that he’d called her early. At least the phone had been ringing when she’d come up the steps around five-thirty with a heavy bag of groceries. By the time she’d unlocked the door and made it into the kitchen, there was nothing on the other end of the line but a dial tone.

After wasting ten minutes debating whether she should bother him, she fished his number out of her pocketbook and dialed. There was no answer, and the woman at the desk finally volunteered that Mr. Rome had left in a hurry just minutes before. He might have been keeping an urgent appointment at the university. But somehow Jessica didn’t think so.

Two hours later she couldn’t shake the conviction that Michael was in some sort of trouble. Was she operating on intuition or raw emotion? she asked herself. And why should her emotions be tied up with Michael Rome’s safety? She barely knew the man. Yet when fate had catapulted her into his arms, he had kept her from falling into the abyss. Though neither one of them had been able to acknowledge it, the experience had forged a bond between them. He’d cared about what happened to her that night, and she cared very strongly about what happened to him now.

She’d been closer to him than she had to most other human beings. Did that give her some sort of special access to his consciousness? Could she conjure up a vision of where he’d gone? Taking a deep breath, she closed her eyes and cleared the screen of her mind. When it was blank, she brought a picture of Michael into focus and watched as he closed the door of his hotel room and walked down the curved staircase to the lobby. She could see him getting into his car and driving away. But the images had no reality. She knew she was simply manufacturing them from her own imagination. For a moment she admitted defeat. She was about to get up and try the phone again when a feeling of helpless terror so powerful swept over her that she gasped and clutched the arms of her chair as if to anchor herself to the here and now.

The room around her swirled into blackness. Her skin grew clammy, and her sense of fear increased. It was as if damp, suffocating walls were closing in around her. For a moment it was a struggle simply to draw air into her lungs. She might have screamed if she hadn’t been panting for breath. Then as quickly as it had come over her, the terrible sensation was gone. The room snapped back into focus. Disoriented, Jessica looked around. She felt drained, shaken, and frustrated. What she had just experienced had not been a product of her own imagination. Somehow it was connected to Michael.

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