Novel - Out of the Dark by Sharon Sala

Author:Sharon Sala
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, Suspense, Fiction
ISBN: 9781551667409
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2003-09-14T22:00:00+00:00

She looked up and then, not recognizing Michael Tessler behind the mask, frowned.

"I'm sorry," she said. "How can I help you?"

Johnny pointed to the IV, then took an empty hypodermic syringe out of his pocket and held it to her.

"You can shove this in his arm, or get out of the way and let me do it," he said.

The nurse gasped as the masked stranger started toward her. She reached for the phone to call security but was not fast enough. Johnny broke her neck as silently and swiftly as he'd broken Mabel Tyler's, then let her limp, lifeless body drop beside the bed.

"Okay now," he muttered, as he fiddled with the IV attached to Raphael's arm. "One good shot of air into this baby and, buddy, you're toast."

Raphael had heard the stranger's voice as well as the implied threat. Struggling to pull himself out of a drug-induced haze, he felt along the side of the bed rail, trying to find the button that would ring the nurses' station. Instead the man shoved his hand aside and started to jab a needle into the IV shunt.

Raphael sensed something was terribly wrong and cursed his illness, as well as the medicine that had left him so weak.

"Who are you? What do you want?"

The man laughed, and the sound made the hair on the back of Raphael's arms stand on end.

"Don't take this personally," the man said. "It's just a matter of business."

Raphael finally focused just as the man thrust the needle of the syringe into the shunt. When he realized that there was nothing in it but air, he knew his time on this earth was over.

Someone was going to kill him. But why? Immediately he thought of all the news coverage and of Jade and knew that it had to be someone from their past. Someone who didn't want them alive to tell any tales. Then he knew that if they were going to kill him, they would kill Jade, too.

Desperate to save her and knowing that it was going to be impossible, his last thought was to make the killer's life a living hell.

Before Johnny Newton could react, Raphael had yanked the IV needle out of his arm. Blood spurted everywhere. On the bedclothes. On the floor. And all over Johnny.

Johnny cursed. The air bubble he'd shot into the fine was now as useless as a fart. Who could have known that this dying son-of-a-bitch would fight back?

"You stupid bastard," he growled, and yanked the oxygen tube from Raphael's nose, then threw it in the floor. Then he wrapped his hands around Raphael's neck and started to squeeze.

Raphael dug his fingers into the man's hands, peeling back surgical gloves and flesh with his nails. The blood was still spurting from the open vein that the IV needle had been in, and now it was all over them both.

Johnny suffered the pain in his hands as he tightened his grip around the man's neck. But instead of fighting, the man suddenly stopped.

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