The Power by Cynthia Roberts

Author:Cynthia Roberts [Roberts, Cynthia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Retail, Suspense, Thriller, Fiction
Amazon: B00CUXG6G2
Publisher: Sinjun Rose
Published: 2013-05-17T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter twenty

The scent was fresh like flowers or freshly spun silk. The soap that she washed with was pleasant and appeasing, he thought as he drew it in. He watched her as she walked from an older model car toward a stone, apartment building. It was dark and the parking lights were dim, but he could see her as if it were as clear as day. She was tall. He had known that she would be so, for even as a child she had been lengthy. Her legs, though incased in baggy, tan slacks, he could see were slender and shapely. Her waist was tiny and her breasts small, but adequate. Her hair was her greatest treasure, a strawberry blonde like a burnt sunset that he had not seen for hundreds of years. He imagined its warmth wrapped firmly around his fingers and the thought pleased him immensely. She had done well for herself, Nicole Harold. He had kept track of her over the years, waiting for just the right moment to reintroduce himself. She had studied like a busy little bookworm, had graduated college with honors, and had gone on to medical school at Harvard, only to return here to New York City to take care of her ailing aunt. She worked now as a Medical Examiner, the top in her field. She was intelligent. He liked that about her. He liked her independent spirit as well. He would own her, and she would worship him. He had decided this long ago. It was as it should be. He would possess her, and perhaps that would make up for his loss of the other.

He heard when the keys in her hand dropped to the pavement, and moving more quickly than the human eye could comprehend, he made it to her side, and bent to retrieve those keys before her pale slender hand could clasp them. A startled yelp escaped her, but when she looked up, and those beautiful blue eyes fastened on his face, a look of calm awe came into them.

“Good evening.” he said, and a slow smile lit her face. “Here. Allow me.” he placed her keys in her small hand, and all she could seem to do was smile up at him as they both rose to their feet, he standing a few inches over her. “These lights are so dim. Someone should complain about that to the manager of this place. It isn’t safe for beautiful, young ladies such as yourself to be out in these shadows. Who knows who or what could be lurking about?” His feigned outrage over the lights, or rather lack of, had her smiling from ear to ear. He watched as she tucked flyaway strands of long curls back behind her ear.

“And who is to say that you are not the one lurking?” she asked in a flirtatious manner. He smiled then. He had her right where he wanted her, he realized.

“Actually, I have just come from visiting a client of mine.

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