Military Man by Ferrarella Marie

Author:Ferrarella, Marie [Ferrarella, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2005-09-06T05:00:00+00:00

It took Collin a little less than an hour to reach his ultimate destination after he’d picked Lucy up at the medical examiner’s. For the most part, the road leading from the jail where Jason had been kept to the maximum security prison was one that echoed of loneliness. Being on it made a man think of all the wrong turns his life had taken.

He wondered if any of these thoughts had occurred to Jason, or if he’d felt that he was just a victim of a fate that dealt in cruelty. That none of what had befallen him was his fault or a result of something he’d done.

By the time he reached the place where the van had gone off the side of the road, the winter sun was waning in the sky. Parking his vehicle, he got out.

“You can stay in the car,” he told Lucy. “It’s warmer.”

She looked at him and he could almost read her mind. There was no way she was just going to sit here, twiddling her thumbs. “Moving around will warm me up.”

Lucy got out with a bounce that had long since been missing in his step.

Shutting the door, she didn’t bother locking it. She looked down at the skid marks the transport van had left.

“What do you think made it go off the side of the road like that?”

Since there were no signs of a dead animal in the road and no one to tell them, Collin was left to theories that might never be proven.

“Off the top of my head, I’d say a driver with a knife to his throat might not be the safest thing to have behind the wheel.”

He moved around slowly, taking in the area. Here and there, there were still some patches of ice that hadn’t completely melted. They crunched with protesting groans beneath his feet as he marked off where the vehicle had gone off the road. He tried to envision what had happened here.

The van had long since been taken away. Not so the skid marks where the tires had dug into the road as the van had gone careening off the main highway, into the ditch. The tire marks were going to be there for a long, long time.

Lucy followed Collin for a little while in silence. Finally she asked, “What is it you’re looking for?”

He didn’t bother to turn around. He was too busy examining the ground, the tiny shoots pushing their way up. Had they been here when the vehicle had crashed, he might have had something to go on.

“I don’t know yet,” he told her honestly. “Something,” he murmured more to himself than to her. When he’d stopped at the morgue, he’d tried to talk her out of coming with him. But she’d been stubborn. As he’d known she would be.

He was looking for a lead. Anything. Something more than he’d gotten from the people he’d interviewed. He’d been so desperate he’d even run down the charitable organizations that Melissa Wilkes had joined in the last year.

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