Seducing the Hunter (Mills & Boon Nocturne)
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He snapped his teeth. They locked with a horrible clicking sound as he went still and his strange yellow eyes went wide. He looked frozen while she had stopped breathing.
She released the latch and tumbled out onto the ground and took off for the house, running faster than she’d ever ran before. Behind her, she heard him coming after her, jaws snapping, the ripping sound of the grass as he tore it out by its roots. She scrambled up the steep stairs to reach the front door and bolted through it, throwing herself back against the solid wood frame. The thing pounded up the stairs and thumped on the door sending vibrations clear through her body. Sonia flipped the lock and stumbled back to land on the floor where she cowered for many long minutes.
Finally the pounding stopped and the silence descended around her, more terrifying than the beating of his fists against wood. Where was he?
He might have killed her. But he hadn’t. Somehow she’d escaped. One thing was certain. She was not teaching that thing.
Her heart slammed in her chest, jackhammering against her ribs until they ached. Finally Sonia recovered enough to stand. Her mind began to tick again. She recalled seeing John Lam running beside the Jeep at twenty miles an hour, at the very least. Yet he had not been able to catch her as she fled. And he had reached for her, but not succeeded in grabbing her when she was trapped in the Jeep even though he had taken her unawares. He’d nearly tipped the thing over. Could have, she was certain. But didn’t. If he’d wanted to grab her that would have been a good time to do it.
But he hadn’t. The truth filtered through the fear. He hadn’t caught her because he wasn’t trying to catch her. He was trying to scare her.
What had the captain said, she might shit herself? Well, she nearly had.
Was this some hazing? Did the captain know this would happen?
Sonia’s anger rose within her like lava, clouding her judgment with great plumes of black smoke. That asshole!
“Damn them both!”
She unfastened the lock and threw open the door. John was gone. Why hang around when he was sure that she would run back to the captain and quit. Well that is exactly what she would have done if she could. But she couldn’t because despite how frightening John Loc Lam was, prison scared her more.
Sonia tugged her hat down low over her eyes and marched back outside. She was not going to let that overgrown wolf pup scare her into a jail cell. Not now. Not ever.
Copyright © 2014 by Jeannette H. Monaco
ISBN: 978-1-472-05097-7
SEDUCING THE HUNTER
© 2014 Vivi Anna
Published in Great Britain 2014
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