Karen Robards by Obsession

Author:Obsession
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Drug Addicts, Brothers and Sisters, Northern, Government Investigators, Virginia, Fiction, Romance, Suspense Fiction, Suspense, General
ISBN: 9780340951774
Publisher: Signet
Published: 2007-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

15

Punching the gas for all she was worth, she drove like a bat out of hell. The Blazer careened backward, almostovershooting the road, while she spun the wheel hard to the left in an effort to avoid smashing into the fortress of trees on the other side. Looking frantically over her shoulder as she reversed, she lost sight of Dan. Even as the tires bit into the gravel of the road, even as she braked and reached down to shift into drive, she looked wildly around for him.

She couldn’t find him.

Heart pounding like a jackhammer, breathing like she had been running for miles, she strained to see any hint of movement through the darkness.

Besides the faintly illuminated shape of the cabin, which was about the length of a football field away now, and the bold swath of silver rain and shiny wet gravel and brown tree trunks and green foliage caught in the beam of her headlights, her surroundings were cloaked by night. Dan could be anywhere, she realized with a rush of cold fear. He could be racing up to her door even as she had the thought. He could—and here her breath caught—be nearby, assuming that shooter’s stance she remembered from her dream, aiming his gun at her. He could …

The bottom line was, he could be anywhere doing anything, but she didn’t have to wait around to find out what it was.

Killing the headlights in the fond but probably futile hope of making the Blazer harder to locate, she put the pedal to the metal and did her best to peel mud out of there. The Blazer made a gallant attempt to answer, lurching forward, tires crunching as they chewed up the ground beneath them. The result was a slow, sideways slither, and she realized to her horror that underneath the top layer of gravel the road had turned into a sea of mud. Leaning forward as if to urge the car on, holding on to the wheel for dear life, she gritted her teeth and sucked in air and ordered herself not to panic. Then she did her best to ignore her runaway pulse and eased up on the accelerator.

It was too late. Even as she fought to get the fishtailingvehicle moving forward again, the right rear side smashed into a tree.

The sharp crunch of crumpling metal caught her by surprise. The accompanying shuddering jolt knocked her against the driver’s door. Unhurt, still holding on to the steering wheel for dear life, she wrenched around to see what she had hit. In the same quick, indrawn breath, she registered that it was a massive oak and that the Blazer was still drivable.

Go, go, go.

Jittery as a teenager with a fake ID in a bar full of cops, she tried to peer out every window at once. Where is he? Every instinct she possessed urged her to stomp the accelerator clear through the floorboard. But that, she knew, would only worsen the problem. Cursing under her breath,

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