Jacking Jill by Annabelle Winters

Author:Annabelle Winters [Winters, Annabelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-04-27T00:00:00+00:00

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I need to make it to Jack at the hotel, Jill thought frantically as she stood frozen between the bar and that empty corridor down which the mysterious and devious Kay Steffen had disappeared after stealing Jill’s bag.

Jill managed to move her feet now, but just barely. She had no idea how long she’d stood there frozen in fear, not sure whether to seek out Kay or say something to Nina or ask one of the security guys for help. She hadn’t actually seen Kay take the bag, but Jill was certain it was her.

But that was about the only thing Jill was certain about when it came to Kay Steffen. Jill’s head still spun from the contradictory signals that slender, dark-haired, pale-skinned woman with the hidden tattoos had sent with that oddly personal conversation littered with warnings.

The last of which still echoed in Jill’s head.

Jack’s going to get nothing but killed.

“I need to warn Jack,” she muttered, speaking out loud just so she’d stop thinking. It was pointless to confront Kay right now—assuming Jill could even find her down that corridor leading to the innards of this maze-like mansion. Not to mention it could be dangerous to start snooping around a mafia boss’s mansion when clearly there was something going on which was way the hell out of Jill’s league.

Just like Kay had warned.

“You need to warn Jack,” she told herself again, more firmly this time, her feet finally responding to her brain and beginning to take her step-by-step towards the parking-lot-exit where they’d come in.

Except Jill didn’t have a car parked out there.

And she didn’t have a phone to call a taxi.

Maybe you can hitch a ride with someone going back to the hotel, she thought. Or if someone’s arriving in a taxi, you can snag it on the way out.

Thinking through the practical problem of getting herself to the Winchester Hotel sent a wave of comforting relief through Jill’s body. It was a good plan, she told herself as the pounding music from the main hall receded to the sound of distant thunder. She was walking fast now, clutching her wool shawl tight around her shoulders, eyes wide and hopeful as the glass-paned double-doors leading to the guest parking lot came into view at the end of the marble-floored corridor.

The empty marble-floored corridor.

Not a living soul in sight.

Nobody coming or going.

“Damn it.” Jill got to the doors and peered out, hoping to see headlights or tail-lights or any lights other than the diamond-white string-lights forming a starry canopy over the blustery-cold parking lot. “Too early for folks to be leaving the cocktail party and too late for new guests to still be arriving. Perfectly bad timing. Shit. Shit. Shit!”

“Shit, you again?” came a familiar voice from behind Jill now. She spun around and saw Bobby Carmine along with Nina and a couple of his drugged-up buddies loping down the hallway. “Where’s your gorilla of a boyfriend, Jill? Did he finally wise up and dump you for being

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