The Doctor Delivers by Judy Christenberry

Author:Judy Christenberry
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Physicians, Contemporary, General, Romance, California, Upper Class Women, Fiction
ISBN: 9780373387076
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2001-09-01T07:00:00+00:00

Nine

Patsy Portman was comfortable in the phone booth in a seedy neighborhood. She'd spent most of her life in less than elegant surroundings like these.

Meredith Colton was jittery, anxious.

The fact that they both occupied the same body made life difficult. For nine years, she'd portrayed Meredith Colton and reaped the benefits—a wealthy husband, a beautiful mansion, everything she wished for.

Except security.

Patsy's perfect plan had a few leaks….

Finally a rough voice answered the phone.

"Have you found her yet?" Patsy demanded, fury in her voice.

"Hell, woman, I've been looking. I can't help it if that bitch can run and hide like a pro."

"She's only twenty. You're the one who's supposed to be a pro. Did you find Liza?"

After a pause, he said, "Yeah. She don't know nothing."

Her voice hard and unyielding, Patsy yelled, "You're lying!"

"No, I'm not! I didn't talk to her myself, but I hired a friend. He talked to her, but a man showed up and he had to run."

"Have him find her again!"

"He tried! He went to New York, to her apartment. She wasn't there." He gave an evil chuckle. "But he'll find her. Bulldog don't give up."

"You stupid bastard! You'd better be right. I won't tolerate any screw-ups."

"Maybe they'll think it's a hoax, that the two worked together. They'll stop looking for me!"

"Looking for you? Why are they looking for you?"

More silence.

Patsy let out a stream of cussing learned during her shady past. Words Meredith had probably never heard. "Listen, you idiot! Be sure you keep the ransom safe, every penny of it, you hear me? Or yours will be the corpse next to Emily's. I'll call, get the money from you as soon as I can get away safely." She hated leaving it in that idiot's hands any longer than necessary.

She slammed down the receiver and exited the phone booth. In this part of town, no one looked at her. It wasn't safe to be too nosy here. Even if they traced the call to the phone booth, which was impossible, no one would expect Meredith Colton to even know about this side of town, much less visit it.

The only danger was someone seeing her car before she got to the freeway. She reached the car, got in and eased out of the dark alley. No squealing tires. She didn't want to call attention to herself.

But damn, she wasn't going to lose her wealth, her position, because of a stupid bastard who couldn't follow orders. She'd kill him before she'd let that happen. She was so close to having it all.

Someone else was trying to save her the trouble of killing Joe. Then the money would really be hers. All of it.

She was so close.

And no one—not even Emily and Liza—was going to stop her.

* * *

Tuesday, Nick pulled into the driveway at what was now his normal time. Before Liza, he would linger at the office, tidying up any possible loose ends. Now he left those details to his staff.

Not that he was being careless. His staff was quite capable.

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