Minutes to Kill by Melinda Leigh EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Melinda Leigh
- Genre: Kidnapping Thrillers, Kidnapping Crime Fiction, Mystery Romance
- Publish Date: 30 June 2015
- Size: 2 MB
- Format: PDF / EPUB
- Status: Avail for Download
- Price: Free
Thursday, 11:35 p.m.
He’s gonna kill me.
Standing on the closed lid of the toilet, Jewel looked through the dirty
glass on to the dark parking lot of an industrial park. She dug at the dried
paint with her fingernail, then tried the lock again. It gave. Gripping the sash,
she tugged at the window. It moved a millimeter, the creak of old wood
reverberating in the tiny motel bathroom. No! He’d hear. Sweat broke out
under her arms. She reached down, flushed the toilet, then leaned over to the
sink and turned on the faucet, hoping the running water would cover the
sound of her escape.
She turned her attention back to the window. How long does it take the
average person to wash her hands? A minute? That’s how much time she had
left before he came looking for her. She shoved up the sash, flinching at the
volume of the resulting groan. Did he hear that over the sound of the water?
The client knocked on the door. “What are you doing in there?”
He heard.
“Be out in a sec,” she called. She put her arms through the opening. No
time to be quiet now. Just get out. She wiggled her shoulders past the sill.
Once she was past her chest, she’d slide out like a newborn baby. Banging
echoed in the small room. The doorknob rattled.
“Open the door. Now.” Mick.
Shit. Fear jolted her heart. If he got his hands on her, she was dead.
Or worse.
Her pulse scurried, and her breaths accelerated until tiny points of light
dotted her vision. If he caught her, there’d be no going back to undo what
she’d done. Some people thought dying was the worst thing that could
happen to a person, but Jewel knew better.
Mick had taught her that being alive could hurt enough to make a girl
pray for death.
Wood splintered. The door burst open. His brown eyes shrank to a
mean, angry glare.
“You little bitch.” Mick lunged for her, his big hands closing around her
ankle. Halfway out the window, she flailed, fingers grabbing at the window
jamb, her free foot kicking out. Determination and desperation were no match
for brute strength. Pain shot through her hand as a nail ripped to the bed.
Panic scrambled for a hold in her belly.
He dragged her back down into the bathroom and dropped her. Jewel’s
head struck the toilet tank lid, rattling the porcelain. Mick raised a hand
across his body. The backhand sent her reeling sideways. She fell into the
tub, and the shower curtain tangled around her body. He bore down on her,
the need to inflict punishment clear on his lean face.
She kicked with both feet. The sole of her left shoe struck him under the
chin. He fell back onto his butt, and Jewel scrambled out of the tub. She
climbed onto the toilet lid and dove out the window, shimmying her hips.
Sliding through, she landed on her hands on the pavement.
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