Talk Me Down by Victoria Dahl

Author:Victoria Dahl
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Man-Woman Relationships, Stalkers, Contemporary, General, Romance, Women Authors, Fiction, Police Chiefs
ISBN: 9780373773565
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2009-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

SURROGATE MOTHER FOR HIRE.

Ben stopped the razor midstroke, leaned close to the steam-fogged mirror, and stared himself down. “You are losing your fucking mind.”

He was.

Molly had been right. He’d been sneaky and underhanded, obsessed with her secrets.

The information she was willing to give him might not be what he wanted, but she’d been honest about it from the start. Sure, she’d lied about the ex-boyfriend, but she hadn’t been involved with Ben at the time, hadn’t been anything but an old acquaintance.

If he wanted this relationship to go somewhere, Ben needed to back off. So did he want it to go somewhere?

Concentrating on his shaving, he tried not to meet his own gaze, but the tactic didn’t work. There was no denying his feelings. He was halfway in love with a woman he knew nothing about.

Except that he did know her. Knew her past, who she’d been born and raised to be, knew her parents and friends. He knew the honesty in her eyes and the truth in her passion. But it just wasn’t enough.

He needed more from her, and she’d never trust him and share her secrets if he didn’t give her space. Maybe he’d leave her alone for a couple of days. Send some flowers like a normal man.

But when the phone rang while he was wiping the last of the shaving cream from his face, her name popped up on the ID screen, and Ben knew he wouldn’t leave her alone for more than twelve hours. Just the fact that she was calling sent his heart into overdrive.

“Good morning,” he answered, trying to keep the thrill out of his tone. “Are you finally up?”

“Hey,” she said, and that one cautious word made the hair on his neck stand up.

“What’s wrong?” he asked.

“When you left this morning, did you go out the back door?”

“No, why?”

“My back door is open.”

“Are you sure it was locked?”

“No, I mean it’s open, did you—?”

“I was in the kitchen this morning, Moll, and it was closed. Where are you?”

“In the front hallway.”

“Okay, put on a coat and wait for me on the front porch, all right? If you’re scared, go to a neighbor’s house. I’ll be right there.”

Ben tried hard not to panic as he threw on clothes and his gun belt and sprinted out of the house. Déjà vu, but last time had turned out just fine. Nothing dangerous or sinister. And this time…She’d probably left the door unlatched and the wind had simply blown it open. He’d left only an hour before, and it was a bright, sunny morning. Molly was fine.

Still, he hit the lights before starting the truck, and had it in gear before he’d even slammed the door. Thirty seconds. Sixty. Ben turned off his street, drove one block down Main and took a hard right onto Molly’s street. Two minutes flat and he was screeching to a halt and jumping out.

Molly stood up from her front steps, arms wrapped around her middle, face pale.

“Are you okay?” he demanded from halfway across the lawn.

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