Love Is Dangerous by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
Published: 2013-10-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

“What do we do now?” Melina asked in a whisper.

“We get the hell out of here!” Bing replied grimly.

He jumped out of the car, saying as he did so,

“I’ll have a look round and see if the coast’s clear.”

Melina suddenly felt terrified of being left alone. She scrambled out of her side of the car and tried to run after Bing who was already climbing up the rocky incline that rose sharply behind the car towards a number of stunted trees.

As the ground was sandy, Melina’s satin shoes were soon full of grit and sand, and by the time she reached Bing’s side she was limping.

He reached out his hand and caught hold of her arm above the elbow as she came up to him.

“Keep low,” he said. “I want to see if there is a car parked at the end of the road.”

Bending almost double and drawing Melina along with him, Bing began to move through the trees.

They had gone only a short way when the sound of an engine behind them made him turn his head. Just for a moment he was still and then, as his fingers tightened on her arm until it was painful, Melina gave a little gasp of horror.

Coming down the road from the villa was a high vehicle fitted with a strong searchlight, which swung from side to side, revealing a large area of the land on either side of the road. It was only a question of seconds, Melina thought, before the light would pick them up and reveal them standing defenceless on the raised ground.

Bing’s white tuxedo and her pale blue evening dress were silhouetted against the trees and the darkness of the sky, then, as something like terror crept over her, she was knocked off her feet.

She felt herself falling, felt the ground hard and painful beneath her shoulders as the weight of Bing’s body sprawling on top of her left her breathless.

For a few seconds she was unable to think, unable to realise anything except the hurt of her shoulders and the difficulty she was having in breathing.

For a moment, she decided later, her senses were almost blacked out.

Then she was aware of Bing’s arms round her, of his body pressing hard and still harder against her breasts and her legs, and of a light, brilliant and searching, playing on the trees above them.

‘They must see us, they must!’ Melina thought desperately and knew with the sharpness of fear that this was indeed the danger Bing had warned her about.

She held her breath as she strained her ears to listen, then tried to breathe again and heard a rasping sound come from between her lips.

“Quiet!” Bing murmured the word between his teeth.

Melina heard him and was rigid again.

Now there were voices coming nearer to them, two men talking together in Arabic.

They had found the car, she thought in a panic and with a kind of dull despair, for the men had only to look upwards to see them both.

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