Mystic Lake by Cassidy Carla

Author:Cassidy, Carla [Cassidy, Carla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, General, Suspense, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9780373695973
Google: NLIWkBJr9gsC
Amazon: 0373695977
Barnesnoble: 0373695977
Goodreads: 12450991
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-02-07T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Cole pressed his foot on the gas pedal, the strobes on the top of his car shooting out brilliant cherry lights in all directions as the piercing siren blared for everyone on the road to get out of his way.

The killer knew where Amberly lived. The words reverberated around and around in his head as his stomach muscles twisted with raw anxiety. He knew where she lived and he’d left her a calling card.

How had this happened? How had he allowed this to happen? He felt the same impotent rage that he’d felt when Emily had been kidnapped and he’d known he’d been the one who had invited danger into her life.

She’d always told him that she knew what she’d signed up for when she’d married a cop, but that hadn’t eased his sense of guilt when she’d been killed.

Was it possible that the same copycat who had killed Casey Richards was just having fun with Amberly? Playing some kind of a sick game?

Prank, or very real, dangerous threat? He couldn’t take the risk of finding out what the truth was; if he guessed wrong it was Amberly’s very life that hung in the balance.

He hadn’t expected this. None of the other victims had been forewarned. If it was the killer, then he was acting out of character and that scared Cole half to death. There was no way to second-guess a killer who changed the rules in the middle of a game.

Traffic fell to the sides of the highway, allowing him to zoom ahead unimpeded. There were definitely benefits to driving a patrol car blazing and screaming through the streets.

Amberly had thought somebody had been outside of her house Friday night after she’d left Mystic Lake. She’d thought it might have been one of the three men from Bledsoe’s. Was one of them the killer? Had he followed her home? Had she led him right to the very place that should be her safe haven?

The GPS system in his vehicle gave him the directions straight to her address, and he couldn’t get there fast enough. He felt a little bit like he had when he’d rushed to the scene where Emily had been being held by Jeb Wilson, a man who had killed his family and whom Cole had been hunting.

Timing was everything. What if the killer was still there on the scene? Hiding out? Just waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike?

One thing was clear. Amberly and her son were no longer safe in their own home. He exited off the highway and onto a main thoroughfare that would lead him to her neighborhood.

He didn’t want the Kansas City law enforcement involved in this, although he knew that he might be stepping on toes. This was his investigation, and in truth, leaving a dream catcher and a picture on a mailbox wasn’t a crime—unless it was tied into what was happening in his small town.

He didn’t want the mess of interacting with another police department. It wasn’t

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