Secrets Rising by Sally Berneathy

Author:Sally Berneathy [Sally Berneathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-04-11T14:00:00+00:00

"I'd appreciate that." Drugs! She wouldn't be able to think or talk or run. She'd be helpless. She had to get away before they reached their destination.

They were approaching the outskirts of Edgewater already. Ahead she could see a gas station and a Dairy Queen on either side of the highway.

"Could you stop at that station for just a minute? I think I'm going to be sick."

"And let you go to the bathroom again like you did at Margaret's house?" He laughed without humor. "How stupid do you think I am?"

"No," she said quickly. "Not the bathroom. I just want to get some crackers for my nausea. I've always gotten car sick, and now that I'm pregnant, it's much worse. I threw up in Nick and Paula's truck, and I'm about to throw up in your patrol car." So many lies, and Mary had a horrible feeling they were only beginning.

"Aren't you lucky you're not going to have this problem much longer?" Charles asked, but he slowed and pulled into the service station.

This was it. Somehow she'd have to get away now. It wouldn't be easy. She couldn't count on anyone to help her. The attendant was more likely to believe a police officer than a woman without any identification. She reached for the door handle, but Charles grabbed her arm and pulled her back to him.

He slapped handcuffs around one wrist, through the steering wheel and around the other.

"I'll be right back with those crackers."

He got out of the car, closed the door behind him, and blind, unreasoning panic threatened to overwhelm her. She yanked futilely on the cuffs, knowing she had no chance to escape.

Stop it! she ordered herself. Be calm and think!

Her baby's life was at stake. She had no room for the self-indulgence of panic.

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