The Mistress Bride by Michelle Reid

Author:Michelle Reid
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780373120567
Publisher: Harlequin Treasury
Published: 1999-09-01T23:00:00+00:00

'No!' Raschid ground out at her furiously.

Glancing up, she saw him through a haze of tears. His wonderful skin had lost most of its colour, his eyes standing out like two golden suns locked into fierce eruption. 'You will do nothing, nothing until I can get this sorted out! There is a way, there has to be a way!' he raked out hoarsely.

And it was that hoarseness of voice that cut her to the quick. For Raschid, like herself, knew the emptiness of that statement.

Outside, the noise was growing. Inside someone was shouting questions at her via the answering machine. With an angry jerk, Raschid bent down and pulled the plug on the phone.

Then, on a growl, he muttered, 'We've got to get out of here,' and retrieved his leather jacket to take his mobile phone out of one of the pockets. Tossing the jacket aside again, he stepped into the kitchen to peer out of the rear window, looking to see if they had 'been besieged at the rear of the cottage as well as the front.

No tell-tale camera lens came poking over the top of the seven-foot-high brick wall that protected the back of the property.

'Get the car around the back of the cottage,' he rasped tersely to whoever he was speaking to. 'Keep the engine running and be prepared to move.'

With that he came back to Evie's side, bent to grasp her uninjured arm and lifted her to her feet. 'Come on,' he urged grimly.

'But-'

She looked dazed and shaken. Raschid shook his dark head. 'You can't stay here,' he clipped out. 'And I certainly cannot. Going by the questions they have been throwing at you, I don't think they even know I am here which is to our advantage. I arrived before they did, and my car was parked around the corner. With a bit of luck,' he added as he unbolted the back door and pulled it open, 'we can be out of here before they realise you've escaped.'

'Escaped to where?' Evie asked bleakly as he pushed her outside and followed her, pulling the door shut behind him.

'To my apartment,' he replied as if the question had been a serious one and not a stark response to her own bleak sense of isolation. 'At least there I can protect you from all of this until we decide what we are going to do.' Do? Evie let out a nervy little laugh that verged on the hysterical. They both knew what he had to do. It was her future that was hanging in the balance here.

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