Mad River Road by Joy Fielding

Author:Joy Fielding
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance Suspense
ISBN: 0743284674
Publisher: Pocket
Published: 2006-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

“Brad, wait! Stop! Please!” Jamie caught up with Brad as he neared the front of Laura Dennison’s house. He’s having some kind of breakdown, she was thinking. Either that or it was all a big practical joke. Either way, she had to stop him before things went too far.

“That’s my girl. I knew you’d change your mind.”

“Brad …”

“I knew I could count on you.”

“Brad, please. Come back to the car.”

“Only place I’m going is in there.” He pointed toward the house.

Why? she wanted to scream. “How?” she asked instead. “How are you going to get in? We don’t have a key. She has an alarm.”

This new information gave him a second’s pause. “You must remember the code.”

“She’s probably changed it by now.”

“Why would she? It’s not like she thought you’d ever come back.”

“What if she changed it anyway? What if it goes off?”

“Then we hightail it out of there.”

“And if we’re not fast enough? If we get caught?”

“Not gonna happen,” Brad said confidently. “Come on, Jamie. This is gonna be fun.” He took her in his arms, kissed her with a passion that was both invigorating and contagious. “We’re not gonna hurt anybody. We’re just going to take back what’s rightfully yours. She won’t even know we’ve been here.”

“Brad, listen to yourself. You’re talking about breaking into somebody’s house. You’re talking about theft. You’re talking about the possibility of getting caught and going to prison.”

“Come on, Jamie. Where’s that free spirit I fell in love with?”

The question tugged at Jamie’s heart. “Please, Brad, this isn’t right.”

“You think what she did was right?”

“No. But you know what they say about two wrongs.”

Brad laughed. “It’s what your mother would say.”

Jamie bristled, although he was right. It was exactly what her mother would say.

“And your sister,” he added for good measure. “I thought you weren’t like them.”

“I’m not.”

“Looks like the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree after all.”

“Brad, I’m serious.”

“You think I’m not?”

“I don’t think you’ve thought this through.”

“Thought what through exactly?”

“This whole thing,” Jamie said, watching the smile slowly seep from Brad’s face, leaving only a cold, hard mask in the spotlight of the moon. “It isn’t a game.”

“ ’Course it is. It’s an adventure.”

“No, it isn’t. It’s a crime to break into somebody’s house.”

“Only if you get caught.” The beginnings of a smile began creeping back onto his face. “And we aren’t going to get caught. I promise. Now, are you ready?”

Jamie hesitated. Are you ready? The question she’d been hearing all her life. Was she? For what exactly? Who was this man? What had she gotten herself into?

“You gotta have faith, Jamie. You gotta decide—are you your mother’s daughter, or the woman I thought I fell in love with?”

The woman he thought he fell in love with. “Brad, wait. Please …”

“I’m counting on you, Jamie.” He cut across the lawn. “I’m doing this for you, babe,” he called back.

He’s the devil, Buddy, she heard the radio announcer intone. Get out while you still can.

Yet how could she let him

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