Prisoner of Love by Cathy Skendrovich

Author:Cathy Skendrovich [Skendrovich, Cathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Select Suspense, romantic suspense, undercover cop, Cathy Skendrovich, romance, Entangled, suspense
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-10-19T04:00:00+00:00

Lucy slid off Jake’s lap as she digested his words. Leave? Leave her home, her belongings, and just run away? Could she do that? Didn’t she have to? Did she want to stay behind and risk another attack?

She shuddered at the memory of that man lying on her, knife to her face, and she realized she would do what Jake told her because it was her only choice.

“What do I have to do?” she asked slowly, wrapping her arms around herself after realizing she was sitting near him in nothing but boy shorts and her thin tank top without a bra. His eyes dropped to her chest and then bounced back to her face.

“Get a duffel bag or backpack, pack it with important papers you don’t want to lose, get some clothes and underwear and shit, and be ready to rock and roll in five. Someone could have heard all this. Okay?”

She stared at him a moment before turning to the closet and grabbing some clothes and the other items he’d mentioned. When he left the room to give her privacy, she paused. This was really happening. She was running for her life, leaving behind everything familiar to her, running alongside the very man who’d brought this all crashing down on the two of them. The thought was not encouraging.

“We’ll hit the bank a couple times, but it’ll have to be at various branches,” he said, reentering the bedroom as she came out of the closet. She’d put on a gray sweatshirt and black jeans, and pulled her hair back into a ponytail.

“H—how long will we be gone?”

He held her gaze, visibly tamping down his impatience to blow this place. After all, he’d been living this life since he’d escaped from prison. “Sweetheart, kiss this place good-bye.”

Her chin trembled as she glanced around the space she’d occupied the last few years. The place she’d called home. Their eyes met again.

“Will—will it get blown up?”

He gave a short shake of his head. “Probably not. But it’ll get tossed pretty seriously. Don’t know if you’d want to move back in afterwards. That asshole wanted to use you to get to me. Must have had a tail on me, which brings up some interesting questions.” He went silent, his gaze distant.

Lucy didn’t care about the questions or the tail he mentioned. She wanted nothing more than to wake up and realize this was all a bad dream. But she knew it wasn’t a dream. It was a living nightmare, and the only solution was standing in front of her in jeans and a cotton t-shirt, with two-toned hair and a scruffy chin.

“L—let me get a jacket and I’ll be ready.” She ducked into the closet and returned with her black coat. Meeting his eyes once more, she stopped when he put a hand on her upper arm.

“Lucy.” He sucked in a deep breath. “I’m sorry like hell for dragging you into this. I mean it. I wasn’t thinking beyond myself when I ran off that work crew that day.

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