Suspicious Ways by Lexxie Couper

Author:Lexxie Couper [Couper, Lexxie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9781619210486
Google: gRHBgJVfiGUC
Amazon: B009AZ3D8C
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Published: 2012-11-05T22:00:00+00:00

The plane touched down on the runway, tires squealing on the tarmac like a banshee on death row.

Jack looked out the window, his throat tight and his chest heavy. Honiara. The Solomon Islands’ capital. Ali was here—or would be any day now. He was going to find her, wring her pretty, devious little neck and then drag her back to Australia. What happened after that, he didn’t know.

Returning his attention to the piece of paper in his hand, he read the words scrawled there once again. It was the same piece of paper he’d given to Mike to read eleven days ago. The same piece of paper that had tortured him every one of those days since.

You seem to be making a habit of losing your women to me. My thanks. Z.P.

Clenching his jaw, Jack crumpled the paper into a small ball.

Accompanying the note had been a check signed by Zane Peterson for fifty-five-thousand dollars, a check now folded in Jack’s wallet. When he next saw the bastard he was going to stick the small, folded piece of paper where the sun never shone.

He pulled in a slow breath, struggling to keep his relaxed composure. Eleven days ago he’d been close to going mad, consumed by guilt and fury and jealousy. Pride had stopped him from jumping on Suspicious Ways the day he’d discovered them gone and sailing after them. Stupid pride. But if he’d been able to get his hands on Ali or Peterson that day he’d most likely be locked away now, charged with murder. It had taken another day for him to realize, no matter how angry he was, he was also petrified. For Ali’s safety. Pride was all well and good, but it wouldn’t keep him sane. He’d arranged a one-way flight to Honiara straight away. Ali may have sailed to her destination with Peterson, but she was returning to Sydney with Jack. Even if he had to tie her to the mast and helm of Wind Seeker himself.

Three days later, almost out of his mind waiting until he would fly out, he’d gone to visit Jenny, hoping she had heard from her daughter. Talking to Jenny may also give him some kind of insight into Ali’s relationship with Peterson. However, after ringing the doorbell so many times he’d lost count, he’d finally accepted that Ali’s mother wasn’t home. It wasn’t until a car drove into the driveway and a family of four alighted that he’d learnt Jenny hadn’t lived there for over a year. It also explained why she never answered her phone. For whatever reason, she was as unreachable as her daughter.

Now here he was on the Solomons, still as frustrated as ever.

Stepping out of the airport and flagging down a taxi, Jack ignored the stunning tropical location and the suffocating humidity folding around him. The sooner he tracked Ali down the better.

Waiting this long before finding her had been hell. He’d barely slept since their confrontation at the marina and the knowledge he couldn’t see her until she docked here today had only made it worse.

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