Paradise County by Karen Robards

Author:Karen Robards
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Mystery, Suspense
ISBN: 9780671786465
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Inc
Published: 2000-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Twenty-two

The sound of laughter made him prick up his ears. The predator glanced around and saw, under the yellow security lights, not one but two beautiful blondes. They were getting ready to enter the building, and he was almost dazzled by his good fortune.

Two beautiful blondes, right here at ground zero. God, he thought, had surely smiled.

Maybe, just maybe, if God was in a really good mood and the stars were aligned just right and all that crap, he could keep one or both of these girls. He was getting tired of Cassandra anyway. She didn’t laugh anymore. She didn’t cry anymore, or even act scared anymore. She wasn’t much more fun than one of those life-size blow-up dolls with a vagina, which, incidentally, he had tried when he was younger and found unsatisfactory. Time to think about replacing her.

If these girls filled the bill, he could replace Cassandra tonight. Send her up to join her Eric in a blaze of glory while his new playmates watched. Showing them right off the bat what would happen if they weren’t good girls was always best. After that kind of demonstration, they never gave him any trouble. In fact, they were usually almost pathetically eager to do exactly what he said.

But, as it turned out, God was in a playful mood, as He sometimes was. As soon as he learned the identity of the blond beauties, the predator realized that. Alexandra and Cornelia Haywood. If that wasn’t some kind of cosmic joke at his expense, he didn’t know what was.

He’d been in their house last night. Of course, when he’d finished topping his evening off with Cassandra and climbed up out of the subterranean depths for a quick shower, he hadn’t even known that the house was occupied. Subtle clues—well, not so subtle, really, a purse in the kitchen—had tipped him off to the presence of at least one woman, and he’d gone to investigate.

He was an opportunist, after all. If God handed him a woman on a plate, who was he to say no?

He’d hit paydirt with the first bedroom he’d entered. A quick flash of the pen-sized flashlight he routinely carried, and he’d realized that he was looking down at a slender young blonde. She was fast asleep, the covers drawn up over her shoulders, her face turned to one side, her skin all white and creamy. Then, because he simply couldn’t resist the urge, he’d reached out and touched her cheek just to see if her skin felt as soft as it looked. It did, but touching her was a mistake, because she stirred. He’d turned the flashlight off, and not a moment too soon. She’d awakened—he’d known by the change in her breathing—and then she lay there in the dark for a moment, wondering why, he imagined.

He’d been tempted, really tempted, just to zap her there and then and take her down to join Cassandra, but he had resisted. He didn’t know who she was, but he figured

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