Lethal Refuge by Vonnie Hughes

Author:Vonnie Hughes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, suspense, spicy
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2012-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Brian Robinson was puzzled. He’d lost sight of Brand Turner. The guy had disappeared. His house bristled with alarms and Brian wasn’t game to attempt a break-in. Not his bag, anyway. Most of the time he just walked into places, often at someone’s invitation. Usually a woman’s.

He stood, hands on hips, surveying the bushland he’d spent hours stumbling through. Give him city streets any time.

Someone was playing games. Was it the person who’d left that message on his sister’s answerphone? Was it Turner himself? Or was someone playing him off against Turner? Whoever it was would be in for a big shock when Brian got things sorted.

“I’ll find you and you’ll tell me what’s going on,” Brian said aloud.

A slight rustling in the undergrowth had him spinning around. He yanked Friend out of the scabbard.

“Who’s there?” he shouted.

From around the side of the house jog-trotted a woman wearing a red knitted tea cosy hat, its pom-pom bobbing about frenziedly. She carried a shotgun. Glaring at Brian she hefted the shotgun, ready to fire. “Who the hell are you?” she snarled. “Don’t tell me there are two of you!”

****

Célie paced up and down the hallway. The two German Shepherds accompanied her.

For once, music failed to interest her. She wondered how Brand was faring. Had Parlane and Ellery “detained” him because he was hiding her? If they had she was on her own, although that wasn’t her main concern. She was used to being on her own. But Brand’s impeccable work record would take a dive if he was accused of harboring a...what was she? A fugitive? A person of interest?

If she and Sim received news that Brand had been detained, she’d wait until Sim became engrossed in his work at the surgery, then she’d disappear. She’d have to leave a note saying she had a safe place to stay so as not to worry Sim. Sim must never know she had nowhere to go because he was too much like his brother. He’d come looking for her and end up endangering himself. Although he lived by the same set of principles as Brand did, Brand thought faster on his feet and stood a better chance against cops and serial killers and God knew what else.

Anyway, being on her own with her back against the wall was familiar territory. Of course the last time her life had been in real jeopardy was when she was seven years old and Clyde’s father had taken out his anger on her. Since then she’d learned a lot. All the same, right now she wished she had someone to turn to. Must be getting soft. Huh! Where were her much-vaunted powers of independence and self-reliance now? Down the gurgler with the death of her best friend, that’s where.

Oh, Tara, I miss you. She stopped pacing and clutched the sofa cushion, burying her face in it as her stomach churned. Brand hadn’t told her how Tara had died, but if it was anything like the way Occy had met his death, she didn’t want to know.

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