Ripped Apart by Miriam Minger

Author:Miriam Minger [Minger, Miriam]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Usenet, Suspense, Thriller, C429, Kat, Exratorrents
Publisher: Walker Publishing
Published: 2011-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Clare squashed the pillow over her head in a vain attempt to drown out a couple’s impassioned moaning coming from the hotel room next door.

Too bad she hadn’t simply fallen asleep but she’d drunk one too many Cokes to do that. Now she had to lay there and listen to her neighbors’ bed creaking and an occasional heel thumping against the wall, while the occupant in the opposite room had the TV blaring so loudly she probably wouldn’t have been able to sleep even if the party for two wasn’t heating up next door. Full of caffeine and growing increasingly frustrated, she sat up and hurled the pillow to the floor.

She felt useless. Tyler might be only miles away and here she was doing nothing to help him. Nothing!

Clare got up and went to look out the window again. She’d lost track of how many times. Monterrey was clearly a city that liked to party. The street teemed with people while she could only stare down at them, wondering if Jake might be somewhere nearby or miles away.

She glanced at the clock on the bedside table that now read eight thirty.

He must surely have met with Mike Reed already. She didn’t know if it was the caffeine, her agitation, or gut intuition but the sense of danger she’d felt upon arriving in Monterrey was only growing greater.

Things were happening out there she knew nothing about. Jake had clearly left her at the hotel to be safe but dammit, surely he knew what a torment it would be for her, too. She hated it. Useless, alone, having no clue—

“Jeez!” The telephone’s sudden jangling had made her jump. Clare lunged for the receiver as what sounded like the headboard banging against the wall next door grew louder, and then she caught herself just in time. The ringing stopped and a second later, began again. One, two. She grabbed the phone. “Hello?”

“No need to shout at me.”

Clare’s rush of relief was immense at the sound of Jake’s voice. “Where are you?”

“Taxi, heading south. You doing okay?”

“If pacing the room and staring out the window is doing okay, I guess I’m peachy. How about you?”

“Fine. It’s going to be late. Try to get some sleep.”

The grim edge in Jake’s voice made her decide not to ask any more questions, even as the frenzied pounding on the wall told her sleep would be impossible. “Jake, I…”

“Yeah?”

Clare pressed the phone against her cheek. She wanted to tell him to be careful, to tell him she wished she were with him if only not to feel so useless but she again decided against it. “Nothing. See you when you get back.”

“Yeah. Keep the door locked.”

That was it. He was gone.

Clare hung up the phone at the same moment a woman screamed in climax next door.

Get some sleep? Right.

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