Safe by His Side by Webb Debra

Author:Webb, Debra [Webb, Debra]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2000-08-02T05:00:00+00:00

KATE COMMANDED her trembling body to still as she watched the man named Dillon end the conversation with Raine. Her chest ached with fear and her heart fluttered like a butterfly trapped in her rib cage.

“Well, Kate, it looks as though everything is going to work out perfectly,” Dillon announced to her, his voice dark and evil, his thin lips sliding into a sinister smile.

Kate swallowed the fear and blinked furiously at the moisture burning behind her lids. She lifted her chin and glared at the man who had forced her from the hotel at gunpoint. “He won’t come. Raine won’t trade himself for me. He hardly knows me,” she said, surprised at the strength and challenge left in her voice. “He’ll be long gone before midnight.”

The idea that Raine would walk purposely into his own death trap to rescue her was absurd. What did Dillon take him for? A fool? Kate didn’t know much about Raine, or fully trust him for that matter, but the one thing she felt certain of was that he was nobody’s fool.

At least Dillon’s proposition had given her a few more hours to live. Kate wasn’t kidding herself. This was bad. Very bad. Raine had been right, at least about this much. These guys were killers and they intended to kill both of them. She should never have made that call. Kate had no proof of her suspicions, but instinct told her that it had been a mistake. A mistake that had brought the devil himself sweeping down on her like a hawk after a frightened field mouse.

Kate surveyed the private room Dillon had bribed the bartender into renting him for the night. It was small, maybe twelve by fourteen. Kate supposed the Thursday-night guys used the place for poker games or small private parties. The decorating enhanced the doom and gloom of her circumstances—circa early seventies with dark paneling, shag carpet and a wagon-wheel chandelier. A round table with eight chairs sat in the middle of the room, and a smaller one sat against the far wall. The only color to break the monotony was a large, rather garish, framed print of huge blue and gold flowers.

Country music blared from the jukebox on the other side of the paper-thin wall that separated her from the crowd of patrons drinking beer and having a grand old time. No one out there would pay any attention to the events taking place in the back room tonight.

Kate swallowed the fear and panic bubbling in her throat. Tonight there would be no poker or party. Tonight people were going to die and, unfortunately, she appeared to be one of the unlucky candidates.

Kate’s gaze flitted back to Dillon’s. His sick smile widened into a grin at the fear she knew he saw in her eyes. He wore his long black hair in a ponytail, giving a clean, unobscured view of his sharp hawklike features. High cheekbones dipped into hollows on either side of his thin lips. A straight blade of a nose, and a dark ledge of eyebrows that hovered over beady eyes.

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