Twice Burned by Burford Pamela

Author:Burford, Pamela [Burford, Pamela]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-11-01T23:11:37+00:00

“SHE NEEDS MORE TIME to rest, Logan. Can’t you see how pale she still is?” Lou’s voice was an urgent whisper.

Logan stood huddled with her in the kitchen, their voices muffled by the noise of the dishwasher. Beyond the archway into the dining room they could hear eleven-year-old Holly, a budding novelist, pumping Zara for information about the glamorous world of publishing. They’d just polished off a meal of spaghetti and meatballs.

“Do you think I want this?” he said. “I know she’s in no shape to go back to that…” He scrubbed a hand over his face, weary and wishing for the miracle of a few more options. Hotels weren’t safe. And they’d been at Lou’s too long as it was. “The longer we’re here, the more danger you’re in. Mac knows I’ve stayed in touch with you. Who’s to say he hasn’t already tracked us down here?”

“Let me worry about that. I’m telling you to stay.”

“Think about Holly.”

Lou held his gaze a long moment before looking away, toward the archway and her daughter’s excited chatter.

“You know I’m right,” he said gently, and patted her arm. “Don’t worry about Zara. I’ll take care of her.”

She gave him a lopsided smile. “Logan Byrne playing nursemaid?”

“When I think about what almost happened…She wasn’t breathing, Lou. She was…I thought she was gone. Yeah, I’ll play nursemaid. No problem.”

Her smile changed into one almost of wonderment, but when he said, “What?” she refused to elaborate. When he thought about it, he was glad she hadn’t. “Listen, uh, Lou…I’d like to borrow a few things to, you know, fix up the warehouse a little?”

He tried not to squirm under her impassive stare. “This is gonna be good,” she finally said. “Tell me. What frivolous items has Zara done without these past few days? Toilet paper? Running water?”

“Nothing like that. Man. Sheets.”

A long-suffering sigh. “Pillows?” she prompted.

“Oh. Pillows, too. Sheets and pillows.”

“How’re you fixed for towels?”

“Towels, we have.”

“Bug spray.”

“Oh. Yeah. I guess we could use some of that.”

Logan didn’t need his old friend’s dark glower to feel as low as one of those doomed cockroaches. Zara’s comfort hadn’t been high on his list when he’d selected the safe house. If anything, the prospect of the spoiled Ms. Sutcliffe toughing it out under such austere conditions had amused him.

But now he could only wonder. what on earth had he been thinking?

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