The Lawman's Nanny Op by Cassidy Carla

Author:Cassidy, Carla [Cassidy, Carla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense, Romance
ISBN: 9780373276851
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2010-07-01T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Caleb had never driven so fast down the streets of Black Rock. Thankfully at two-thirty in the morning there were no other cars on the road to get in his way.

The phone call from Portia had scared the hell out of him. All he’d managed to get out of her was that she needed him before Layla had gotten on the phone and told him somebody had come through the bedroom window and had tried to strangle Portia.

He gripped the steering wheel tightly as he made a right turn down the street that would take him to Portia’s place.

Dammit, whoever had broken in her house had balls of steel. They had to have seen Layla’s car in the driveway and that still hadn’t deterred them from trying to get to Portia.

He’d called Tom and Benjamin and asked them to meet him at Portia’s. It was a crime scene and he couldn’t take care of the situation on his own.

When he pulled up to Portia’s every light in the house shone and he jumped out of his car and hurried to the door. “Portia, it’s me,” he said as he banged on the door. Layla let him inside and he strode into the living room. Portia was up and off the sofa and into his arms in an instant.

She trembled violently and cried into the front of his shirt. He tightened his embrace and looked at Layla, who sat on the sofa. She wore a short pink robe and a look of horror. Portia wore her robe, too, the silk material cool against him.

“He came in through the bedroom window,” Layla said. “He cut the screen and got the window open and came inside and he tried to strangle her.” Layla’s voice rose an octave. “He tried to kill her, Caleb. If I hadn’t been here I don’t know what would have happened.”

“You’re sure it was a man?” he asked as Portia’s sobs began to subside.

She finally moved from his embrace and looked up at him, her eyes filled with turbulent emotions. He saw the redness of her jaw and throat and wanted to hit somebody, wanted to smash the perpetrator in the face.

“I don’t know. All I can tell you is that whoever it was, was strong.” She raised a hand and touched her neck. “He wore a ski mask and it was so dark I couldn’t tell anything about him.” She moved to sit on the sofa and at that moment Tom and Benjamin arrived.

For the next hour the men processed the window and the bedroom, questioned Portia and Layla over and over again and tried to find something that might lead them to the identity of the intruder.

An ambulance arrived and the paramedics checked out Portia, looking at her throat and jaw and making the assessment that she didn’t need emergency care, and at Portia’s insistence had finally left.

Unfortunately, everything had happened so fast, she hadn’t gotten a really good impression of the person who’d attacked her. She wasn’t sure about height or weight and couldn’t tell them hair or eye color.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.