Safety In Numbers by Carla Cassidy

Author:Carla Cassidy
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2007-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

“Whoa,” Chase exclaimed as he found himself suddenly looking at the business end of a 9 mm gun. “A little jumpy, are we?”

“What are you doing out here sneaking up on me? I could have shot you.” Her voice trembled as she lowered the gun.

“I came out here to tell you if you didn’t get back to the house you’d miss breakfast.” He frowned, noticing her face was bleached of color. “Are you all right?”

“No. No, I’m not.” Her green eyes held fear that forced a flurry of adrenaline through him.

“What’s wrong, Meredith?” Her utter stillness and blanched features caused a rising tension in him. Something had happened, something bad.

“I think my secret admirer is the man who murdered my mother.”

She couldn’t have surprised him more if she’d told him that she had been impregnated by a marauding alien. “What are you talking about?”

She tucked the gun in the back of her jeans, then grabbed his hand and led him to the sofa. Her ice-cold hand trembled in his. “I was going through a box of my mother’s things and I found these.” She handed him three pieces of old, yellowed paper.

He read each one, then looked back at her. “Rather troubling, but what does this have to do with you?”

“I got notes.” She sank to the sofa and buried her face in her hands.

“You got notes?” He waited for her to continue.

“Just like these. Oh God, he killed my mother and now he wants me.”

“Meredith, what are you talking about? What notes did you get? When?” He felt as if he had entered a movie halfway through and now had to play catch-up. Chase didn’t like to play catch-up. “Meredith, answer me,” he said impatiently.

He set the papers on the arm of the sofa, then sat next to her and pulled her hands away from her face. “What notes?”

As he stared at her she visibly pulled herself together. She straightened her back and some of the color returned to her cheeks. “I got the first one the night of the Fall Festival dance. When I went to my car to go home it was stuck beneath the windshield. ‘I’ve been waiting for you for a very, very long time. You are my destiny.’ That’s what it said.”

He still held on to her hands. It was like holding two ice cubes. “And the next note?”

“I got it yesterday when I was in town. It was on my windshield when I got ready to come home. It said ‘You will be mine,’ just like the notes that I found in the box. They were written in the same kind of block lettering as the ones I found in my mother’s box.” Her eyes were dark with a simmering fear. “I haven’t gotten the third note yet.”

“Why haven’t you told me about the notes before now?” He rubbed her hands, trying to warm them up.

She caught her bottom lip with her teeth, for a moment looking more vulnerable than he’d ever seen her.

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