Avarice by Lisa Clark O'Neill

Author:Lisa Clark O'Neill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, thriller, suspense, police procedural, series, mountains, trilogy, exmilitary, southern setting
Publisher: Lisa Clark O'Neill

SHOCK rendered Cal momentarily immobile – but only momentarily. A combination of training, instinct and adrenaline kicked in and he regained control of the wheel, jerking it to the right. The other vehicle – something high off the ground, another pickup, most likely – had caused him to drift into the opposite lane. On a blind curve.

Thank God another car hadn’t been coming. They would have collided head-on.

“Oh my God,” Ainsley said, jerking around so that she could look out the back window. Beaumont stood up between them and barked. “They must be drunk.”

Cal considered pulling over alongside the road to let the idiot go past them, but there was a tree-dotted rock face to the right of him, and a significant drop off to the left. The ditch between the road and the rock face ran with muddy water. If he pulled over, he’d probably get stuck.

He glanced into the rearview mirror. The other vehicle had dropped back, but still followed them more closely than he liked. Drunk or not, they were a menace. Only lunatics drove so recklessly on winding mountain roads.

They rounded another curve, Cal’s headlights illuminating the yellow sign that warned heavy trucks of a steep grade over the next few miles. He started to suggest that Ainsley grab his cell phone from the cup holder and give her cousin a heads up that this idiot behind them needed his license revoked, when the lights in his rearview mirror drew closer.

“Shit. Grab the dog,” Cal said to Ainsley. “And hang on.”

There wasn’t even a ditch on this piece of road. It was rock face or steep drop. And accelerating was out of the question, given that they were already speeding down a decline. Cal didn’t want to risk losing control when he entered the next curve.

He was braced for the hit this time, though it didn’t make the collision any less disconcerting. Ainsley and the dog both yelped as the truck lurched forward, the right front tire catching the edge of the pavement, causing the wheel to shift beneath his hands. Cal swore aloud as he fought to steady it, to bring the truck fully back onto the road without overcorrecting. Thank God the rain they’d had over the past few days had finally stopped, or he’d be hydroplaning all over.

“He’s crazy!” Ainsley said, one hand clutching the dog while the other braced against the dash. Cal couldn’t argue with her assessment.

The other truck dropped back again, a bit further this time, but Cal wasn’t fooled. Those bumps very clearly had been no accident.

His gaze shifted from the rearview mirror to the road in front of him. There were a few lights shining through the trees up ahead, which he thought corresponded to the road they’d passed earlier. It was a sharp turn, and one that wouldn’t be easily made if he didn’t slow down considerably.

But if he slowed down, he risked alerting their pursuer of his intentions. And he had a feeling that simply running them off the road wasn’t what the other driver was after.

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