The Prince She Had to Marry by Christine Rimmer

Author:Christine Rimmer [Rimmer, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9781459244788
Google: 9YVPyfdcERwC
Amazon: B008X47EAO
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-10-31T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

As he approached the house, Alex’s smile faded. He didn’t like what he saw.

The front door was shut, but the windows to either side of it were open—and it was dark as the middle of the night in there. Not a glimmer of light. Surely she would have lit a few candles by now.

Had something happened in there? Had someone come and taken her?

Was she hurt—or unconscious?

What was the matter with him? He’d forgotten all about the bump on her head. He should have realized that it might be worse than either of them had thought. She could be lying comatose in there in the dark right now.

Fear for her hollowed out his belly, made the blood spurt hard and fast through his veins. He never should have allowed her to stay here at the house alone. And he’d been gone for hours, damn it.

It had been a stupid, stupid thing to do. Just because she insisted on seeing the world through rose-colored glasses didn’t mean he had to let down his guard completely, to indulge her in her delusional certainty that most people were good-hearted and harmless, that she was completely recovered from a blow that had knocked her unconscious.

He had quickened his pace. He was almost at the front step at a full-out run when he stopped dead in his tracks.

Wait. No. Don’t be an idiot. Not now, not this time.

No matter how much he needed to find her and find her fast, it wouldn’t do to barge in there without getting some idea of the possible danger. He wouldn’t be any good to her if he walked blindly into a trap. It would be Kabul all over again. The end of her, the same way letting down his guard in Kabul had eventually resulted in the end of Devon.

And like Devon’s death, Lili’s end would be all his fault.

He melted into the shadows at the side of the house. And then, while his racing heart hammered at him to hurry, to get to her and get to her now, he circled the building. Most of the windows were open—and all of the shutters, except the one to the small window in the bath.

He saw not a glimmer of light from inside.

When he reached the front again, he debated whether he should check the other buildings before going in, see if trouble waited in one of them.

But no. He’d wasted enough time sneaking around the outside of the house, finding out exactly nothing in the process. Except that it was too damn dark in there and also way too quiet.

Lili was almost never quiet. Unless she was sleeping.

His galloping heart slowed a little as it occurred to him that she might have simply decided to take a nap. That made a good deal of sense, now that he thought about it.

She had to be exhausted after all she’d been through.

And he was acting like a nutcase, skulking in the shadows, dithering around out here.

He was going in.

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