The Replacement by Melinda Di Lorenzo EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Melinda Di Lorenzo
- Language: English
- Genre: Kidnapping Crime Fiction
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A like thunderclap. thunderclap. One moment, he’s out. The next,
he’s staring up at a cloudless sky while the scent of smoke permeates the
air. He sucks in a breath. Chokes. Gasps it out again. The smoke isn’t just in
the air; it’s in him.
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“Shit.” The word is a growl that cuts away even more oxygen.
He clamps his mouth shut. Holds his breath.
What the hell happened? Where am I?
Then that comes back, too.
A road, slick with ice. A bridge, too narrow for two cars. The flash of
oncoming headlights and the blare of a horn and—
“Shit,” he repeats.
And the crash. Metal on metal. A sickening sound that’d been followed
by regret over not fastening his seat belt because right then, he’d felt
himself sail out of the topless convertible.
She’s going to kill me, he’d thought as the air whipped over his body. If
I’m not dead already.
Next came a searing pain in his temple—it’s still there, now that he’s
thinking about—and at last, a welcome blackness. Then came this.
Ignoring the all-over throb, he sits up and blinks. Smoke is everywhere.
Orange flames rise into the night. His car is only a dozen feet away, and it’s
on fire, halfway to being a husk already. He blinks again. Lifts his blurry
gaze. It’s then that it comes to him. This was—is—more than an accident.
This is a sign. An opportunity. An answer to the wishes he’s made in the
darkness.
AT FIRST ARI thought the sound was part of a dream. The drawn-out noise
—cr-r-r-r-rack—had no place in her conscious existence. She rolled over
without even opening her eyes. But a second noise followed. Plink-plink,
plink-plink. It was a little more familiar seeming than the first one, and it
tugged her closer to the edge of consciousness. Plink-plink. Like shards of
glass falling to the ground. Which made no sense. Why would glass be
falling in her apartment? It wouldn’t be, plain and simple.
“Dreaming,” she murmured.
She rolled over again, still hanging onto the hope that sleep would ebb
back in. It was a vain wish. A light cry—not the full-blown holler of need,
not yet—carried to her ears, and she groaned. She willed for it to fade. It
didn’t. And she replaced her groan with a sigh.
“All right, Lucy-Kate. Momma’s coming as fast as she can.”
Despite her words, her movements were sluggish. She was exhausted.
Bone wearily so. For three weeks now, Ari’s otherwise sweetly
dispositioned daughter had been waking at a God-awful hour and shrieking
like her little life depended on it. The first time, Ari had thought maybe
Lucy-Kate’s life did depend on it. She’d flown out of bed, rushed her
daughter to Emergency, then waited with terrified breath to hear the
unthinkable.
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