the trouble with jared by kay hooper

Author:kay hooper
Language: eng
Format: azw
ISBN: 9780553443394
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1993-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

SIX

Morgan was beginning to get tense about the entire situation. The collection would be moved to the museum within days, which meant the bait would be in the trap. Neither Max nor anyone else had deigned to inform her that there was a trap and she hadn’t seen a sign of Quinn in more than two weeks. It was maddening.

She didn’t fool herself into believing that Quinn wasn’t uppermost in her mind. Once she’d gotten over her fury at having been presented with a concubine ring—though she fully intended to give him a piece of her mind about that little item when next they met—she had gone back to spending an hour or two of her evenings parked outside some likely museum or jewelry store hoping to get lucky, as she had once before. Even after the mess she’d landed herself in the last time, and even knowing how reckless and dumb it was, she kept up the nightly search.

But the most elusive thief in the world seemed to have no difficulty in eluding her.

She had read the newspapers front to back and had kept her ears open during her days at the museum, and if Quinn had robbed anybody, they apparently didn’t know it. There were no splashy headlines about the world-famous cat burglar, no breathless news bulletins on television, and nobody had reported a jewel or art robbery of any kind since Max, Wolfe, and Jared had captured a psychotic thief bent on murdering Storm.

In fact, barring a definite undercurrent of tension between Wolfe and Jared, things had been downright peaceful.

Morgan told herself she should be happy about that state of affairs. It was best for all concerned. Quinn had quite probably gone back to Europe, especially after she’d warned him about the trap.

Something she hadn’t mentioned to Max.

Still, in spite of common sense and logic, she had the feeling Quinn hadn’t left San Francisco. He was here somewhere, and if he hadn’t committed a robbery, it was probably because he was waiting for a chance to grab Max’s collection—trap or no trap. That was why she kept looking for him, she told herself. Because if the first warning hadn’t worked, maybe she could come up with one he would pay attention to. It was, after all, her responsibility to guard the forthcoming exhibit from harm, and Quinn undoubtedly posed a threat she should guard against.

Yeah, right! She sneered at herself.

The simple truth was that she couldn’t get him out of her mind. She had told Dani that she lived to see him in the daylight, and in a way it was true. She had seen him only at night, surrounded by the darkness he used to such good account, and though she had seen his unmasked face only briefly and in poor light, it was branded in her mind as clearly as if she carried a photograph of him.

She could have provided the police with a very accurate description of him. Did he know that? Of course he did.

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