The Hunted by Anna Leonard

Author:Anna Leonard [Leonard, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-10-01T07:00:00+00:00

Dylan touched her arm, and she turned and accepted a wad of bills from him to supplement the thirty dollars she had found in her own ruined wallet. “All right, I’ll meet you back here in an hour?”

He looked a little taken aback at being abandoned in the front of the store, and Beth almost laughed. She would finish her shopping and come back to find him—she suspected that he would still be standing there, looking helplessly at socks, or maybe distracted by the electronics department. Typical guy, no matter where he came from.

She kept her own shopping simple: two pairs of jeans, a package of cotton underwear and one of plain white socks, a dark blue sweatshirt without a logo and a pair of plain white sneakers. If someone was actually hunting them, the last thing she wanted to do was give anyone anything to remember.

Thinking of that, she added a denim baseball cap and a pair of sunglasses to her cart. Clichéd, but useful.

She made her purchases, then sat down on a bench and switched to new socks and sneakers. She dumped the old shoes into the bag, thinking that she might be able to salvage them, and went in search of Dylan.

He was already standing in line to check out, she was surprised and pleased to see.

“Get everything you need?”

“Yes, mother,” he replied semi-seriously. She leaned over and investigated his cart. He must watch the same television shows she did, because he had gone the same route: clean plain clothing without any logos or obvious flash, although his sneakers were actual running shoes, complete with stripes, and a pair of black sweatpants.

He also had a six-pack of Coke, a large bag of beef jerky and a gallon of bottled water, plus two oversize beach towels and a knapsack.

“Looks like you covered everything,” she said dryly. “I don’t know what I was thinking, going off without my towel.”

He gave her a blank look, and she just shook her head. “Never mind. Pay, and let’s get out of here. There’s a diner across the parking lot, and if I don’t get food in me soon, even that jerky’s going to start to look good.”

“I like jerky.” He sounded as defensive as a little boy scolded for hoarding frogs.

“Good. You eat it. I want a hamburger. With bacon. And fries. And coffee. And maybe even a hot-fudge sundae. I’m starving.”

She was. Her normal appetite was healthy, but this was overwhelming.

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