Triple Dare by Candace Irvin

Author:Candace Irvin
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2004-09-10T05:00:00+00:00

The moment Dare stepped through the Tristan’s main glass doors he knew Abby was upset.

No—she was terrified.

And becoming more so by the moment.

Dare’s own panic shot off the scale. He lunged across the lobby with barely a nod toward the doorman as Jerry tried to flag him down. An instantaneous read of the man’s emotional aura as he raced past assured him that whatever Jerry wanted was important—but it wasn’t urgent. Abby’s terror was. Dare reached the elevators in record time, blessing the second lift’s empty, waiting existence as he vaulted inside, every sensory receptor in his body tuned to the roiling fear emanating from above as he slammed his palm into the button for the eighteenth floor.

Abby’s floor.

What in God’s name had happened? Had that murdering bastard tracked her down already?

When he’d left that morning to arrange her and her brother’s security, she’d still been asleep—scratch that, passed out. With Jerry serving as interim lookout and the remainder of the building’s doors tied to an alarm system, he’d risked a visit stop at his father’s town house in Gramercy Park. Damned near four hours later, he’d finally located the rutting bastard and had his entire world turned upside down—and that didn’t even include the information he’d uncovered about his purported parents. At the moment, though, he couldn’t help but wonder if the entire visit had been a mistake—because of the absolute fear he could still feel radiating down from above.

Unfortunately, the massive hit of adrenaline that had crashed into his bloodstream the second he’d felt Abby’s fright was interfering with the connection.

Their connection.

Even as he prayed, he forced himself to breathe. To calm down.

Concentrate.

As the elevator crawled upward, Dare used every single biofeedback technique he’d studied over the years to try to slow his racing heart. To purge the numbing adrenaline from his blood. It was working, but not fast enough. It wasn’t until the lift had reached the fifteenth floor that he was able to refine his assessment. Abby was deathly afraid, all right, but not of the faceless murderer she’d stumbled across outside Avery Fisher Hall last night. She was terrified of him.

By the seventeenth floor, he knew why.

Damn. Dare slammed the override button as the elevator approached the eighteenth floor and forced the lift to keep going. The second the doors opened onto the nineteenth floor, he shot outside, whipping around the corner and racing down the carpeted hall, barreling past the first empty apartment, then the second before turning down the final hall—

He was too late.

Abby was already at the end, standing in front of the door to the sole occupied apartment, her hunched side to him, the jacket he’d worn the night before over her arm, the replacement master key Jerry had slipped him already out of the jacket pocket and in her quaking hand. In the lock.

She pushed the door open and gasped. “Oh, my—”

“Who the hell are you and what do you think you’re doing?”

Dare sprinted the final yards on desperation alone,

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