Deadly Pursuit
“As a surge of adrenaline kick-started her brain, vanquishing sleep, Alison rose on one elbow to check the digital dial on the bedside clock.
Four fifteen.
Heart pounding, muscles quivering, she cocked her head and listened for another sound that would confirm she had company.
All was quiet.
But she hadn’t imagined the muffled thump. It had been loud enough to penetrate the mind-numbing slumber that had finally sucked away her consciousness at two thirty. And it had come from inside her brother’s apartment. The prickle on her skin told her someone else was close by.
It had to be Cole, though. He’d said he’d be late, and no one else could have gotten past the dead bolt.
Could they?
Doubt lingering in her mind, she swung her feet to the floor and crept toward the closed door. She’d noticed Cole’s old hockey stick in the corner of the bedroom, and now she felt for it in the dark.
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