Free Spellbound in His Arms by Angel Sefer Page B

I’m fine!” Jackie walked over to the
refrigerator and poured herself some milk, ignoring the steaming coffee he had
prepared. Obviously, she didn’t want anything from him.
    “It’s okay,” he said smiling and took a sip from his
cup. “I haven’t poisoned the coffee.”
    Jackie looked at him sharply. “I’ll call the attorney
and straighten everything out,” she said coldly. She seemed determined to keep
her distance.
    “And how, exactly, do you intend to do that?” he asked,
and she looked at him surprised.
    “What do you mean?” she asked, watching him carefully.
    “I mean the phone is dead .”
    Jackie sighed. “Well, it wasn’t working last night
either,” she admitted. “But I thought it would be all right after the storm was
over.”
    “Well, it’s still dead” he confirmed and ran his fingers
through his hair.
    “Don’t you have a cell phone?” she asked suddenly and
looked at him suspiciously.
    “I’ve tried it,” he replied. “There’s no signal out
here.”
    “Well, we have no other choice then than to drive to
town.”
    She saw the ironic look on his face and got alarmed. “ What
now ?”
    “I’m afraid that’s not possible either,” he said.
    “And why is that?” she asked cautiously.
    “Because the road is closed.”
    “What do you mean closed?”
    “Closed means closed ,” he answered, losing his
patience. “I went to check it earlier. A big tree has fallen on the bridge down
the road and destroyed it. There is no way to get across the creek.”
    Jackie took a deep breath. “But there must be another
way,” she insisted.
    “If there is, I don’t know it,” he lied.
    “I’ll check it out myself,” she said stubbornly and
walked out the door.
    Be my guest! Michael
thought. With the bridge gone, there was no way a car could make it across. She
could walk all the way to town, if she wanted to, but it was a several hours
walk. And besides, she would still have to cross the creek, which was full of
water due to the storms these last few days. Which meant, that being soaked
wet, she would be sick by the time she got to town, if she ever made it there.
    Michael smiled, thinking of her determined and defiant
attitude. He was sure she was capable of trying to cross the creek and walk to
town, but of course, he was going to stop her.
    For now, he didn’t have to worry about that. With the
dress and sandals she wore this morning, there was no way she would try to
cross the creek and walk to town. All she was doing was blowing off steam.
    He got up and decided to go ahead with his plan. He had
been up for hours and had already checked the documents in the folders, trying
to determine which one was missing. As far as he could tell, the company’s
shares, the will and the title deeds of the property were all in the folders.
Then what was the document the intruder stole last night? He was trying hard to
remember, if there was anything else in these folders.
    Damn! His birth certificate
stating Philip Manos as his father! Now things were even more complicated and
he had to hurry up. There was no time to waste.
    He pulled out his gun and left the house, determined to
hunt the intruder down. He had to be somewhere around there, since by the time
he stole the documents and escaped to the woods, the storm was almost over.
Which meant, that the bridge was already damaged and there was no way, he could
make it across. Unless…
    No , Michael thought and
shook his head in denial. He couldn’t possibly know that there was another
way.
    ***
    Jackie waited, hidden behind a huge tree trunk. She had
no intention of walking down to the bridge. There was no reason to. She was
sure he wouldn’t lie about something so obvious, and besides she already knew
there was another way out. Her instructions had covered all the areas and she
was prepared for just about anything.
    That’s a lie ! She scorned
herself. She wasn’t prepared for Michael and especially, for the way she
responded to