The Chase: A Novel by Brenda Joyce

Author:Brenda Joyce [Joyce, Brenda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781429905893
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2007-04-01T07:00:00+00:00

Because of the time change, they arrived at JFK just an hour or so after they had left the U.K. “Eightieth and Third,” Ian directed their taxi driver. He glanced at Claire. “How you doing, kiddo?”

Claire put on her seat belt carefully as the cab left the terminal. She smiled. “Couldn’t be better, bud.”

But she was tired. More so mentally than anything else. Had she arrived in Wales only four days ago? A lifetime seemed to have passed since then. And now she was back in New York—with Ian Marshall, who was no longer a stranger but a lover. Had anyone even suggested to her a week ago that she would survive a hit attempt and be having an affair with Ian Marshall—while in the midst of a hunt for a Nazi—she would have accused them of being crazy.

But maybe she was the crazy one now. Claire looked out of her window. For hours and hours, she had replayed every word and every nuance of their conversation with the Dukes—while trying to avoid thinking about her conversation with Ian the night before. Had William been Harry Elgin’s best friend when they were boys? Or had Harry Elgin been his older brother?

The latter was a sickening prospect.

Ian was on his cell phone. As he wasn’t speaking, she guessed that he was picking up messages. She noticed that he had not put on his seat belt. It was a very New York way to tempt fate, as New York cabbies only pretended to know how to drive. Claire had never been able to figure out how they acquired their licenses.

Claire was tense and torn. Looking at him made her heart want to sing a little, and it made her wonder when they would make love next. Being in his arms was the best thing in the world, as far as she could tell. And thinking about making love was a good distraction. But maybe it was a dangerous distraction. Maybe he had been right; maybe this was a complication that neither one of them needed right now—when they did not know for certain just who Elgin really was.

She had yet to call her father, who was, according to Elizabeth, sick with worry about her.

“Good news,” Ian said. “Frances Cookson is back, and we’re confirmed for first thing tomorrow morning.” He smiled at her, but his gaze was searching.

“Great!” Claire exclaimed, knowing she had to be the worst actress in New York.

The taxi was now speeding down the Van Wyck Express-way. “Claire, give it up. You’ve been tense since we departed Heathrow.”

“I am hardly tense. I mean, we get to relax tonight. How’s that? Relaxation. That’s a word we’ve both forgotten, I think. My vote is for Patsy’s Pizza and a video. Something easy. Like The Big Easy.”

“Claire.” He took her hand. “It’s okay to be frightened.”

She faced him. “That is easy for you to say.” She grimaced, then said, “It’s William. I know it. He was acting differently around me.”

“Let’s not jump the gun.

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