Amanda Stevens Bestseller Collection: Stranger In Paradise/A Baby's Cry by Amanda Stevens

Author:Amanda Stevens [Stevens, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460802403
Publisher: Harlequin Mills & Boon Australia
Published: 2011-07-31T21:00:00+00:00

waiting, he thought. Waiting for him. He had the eerie sensation that with every step he took, he was walking toward his destiny.

At the top of the stairs, he paused, getting his bearings, listening to the silence for a moment before making his way down the hallway. He wished he’d thought to bring along a flashlight, but it was too late to go back for one now. His every instinct was warning him that Emily was up here somewhere, and he had no intention of leaving without her.

The door to his bedroom was open, and he walked inside. Like the rest of the house, the room lay in darkness, and the mist outside partially obscured the moon. He could make out nothing more than hazy shadows. The hair on the back of his neck prickled, and as Matthew started to walk back toward the door, a shadow moved in the hallway.

“Matthew, watch out! She has a knife!”

“Emily!”

Something rushed out of the darkness toward him. Matthew barely had time to brace himself before that something crashed into him and knocked him to the floor. His gun went flying out of his hand, and he cursed.

He tried to spring up, ready himself for another onslaught, but the assailant, fast as lightning, was on him. Matthew had just a glimpse of her face in the darkness, just a hint of blond hair and demented eyes that caught him off guard.

“Nella?” he whispered, just before he felt the sharp sting of a blade as it ripped through his side.

Dazed, Matthew fell to the floor, his hand automatically going to the deep wound. Blood gushed through his fingers as he tried to roll away from Nella and the bloodstained knife she held in her hand. A wave of darkness swept over him, but he tried to fight it. He couldn’t lose consciousness now. Emily still needed him. Emily…

Nella was standing over him. A drop of blood fell from the point of the knife and landed on Matthew’s face. “Say it,” she whispered. “Say you love me, Wade. That’s all I want.”

Matthew lunged upward and, with his last ounce of strength, grabbed Nella’s arm. The knife went flying. It crashed to the wooden floor and skidded through the open French door, onto the balcony. Nella gasped and tore herself away from Matthew. She scrambled across the room, toward the knife, and picked it up, standing silhouetted in the open doorway.

The blackness was rushing up to meet him, but Matthew tried to fight it. He steadied himself as best he could for Nella’s attack, but it never came. Another shadow flew past him. It was Nella who was caught off guard this time, and the momentum of the impact as the two bodies collided sent her flying through the French doors. She crashed into the balcony railing, and for no more than a second or two, she hovered against the splintered wood, the knife still grasped in her hand.

Then the wood gave way, and without a sound Nella fell backward into the darkness.

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