Trust With Your Life

M.L. Gamble

Литагент HarperCollins EUR

He Had Her in His Sights…His face haunted her memories. His Australian accent and trim, tanned body taunted her dreams. But when Alec Steele reappeared in the flesh, Molly Jakes's life became a living nightmare.He claimed he'd escaped from kidnappers–but her dream lover from down under abducted her. He claimed he'd been brainwashed to kill–but he didn't know his intended victim.After hot summer nights on the run with the sexy Aussie, Molly began to suspect their meeting was no coincidence…and she feared that the man who fueled her fantasies had indeed been programmed to kill…her!

Trust with Your Life

M.L. Gamble

www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

With love for two beauties, Kathleen Rose Seaman and Sara Kathleen Seaman. Also for Beulah Mae McKinney Curran Beckland, the dearest Valentine.

CAST OF CHARACTERS

Molly Jakes—Kidnapped, chased and framed for murder—will she end up loving the man she trusts…or trusting the man who kills her?

Alec Steele—This Australian may have been brainwashed to destroy the person closest to him.

Frederick Brooker—This millionaire businessman was seen pulling a trigger, but it’s what he’s done that wasn’t seen that could prove much more fatal.

Dr. Alicia Chen—The beautiful psychiatrist caught between love and fear. Will her Hippocratic oath rule her actions?

Eric Brooker—This deaf teenager is very accomplished. Will his trust be betrayed by those closest to him?

Mason Weil—Brooker’s slick attorney walks a tightrope between duty to his client and duty to his conscience.

Lieutenant Cortez—Paid to uphold the law, he does his best to work both sides of the street.

Contents

Prologue (#u7e29b106-4e2f-54d3-9065-9774839b2ef7)

Chapter One (#u29e3f143-45dd-53bb-864f-19a7c99f2f45)

Chapter Two (#u5065e05d-3601-5629-95e2-4732cf479299)

Chapter Three (#u6fcc9e0a-5543-5a88-9d11-f2fb2997a366)

Chapter Four (#u84e9a14e-9ff4-5ea8-a7d2-8475cb993b3b)

Chapter Five (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Six (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Epilogue (#litres_trial_promo)

Prologue

February 14

Molly Jakes grabbed her cellular phone out of the front seat compartment and slammed the car door. She glanced at her watch, grimaced at the 11:53 reading and stuck the phone in her purse. Slinging the strap over her left shoulder, she shivered and buttoned her coat.

Fog drooped down like gray flannel from the starless sky, refracting light from the surrounding buildings into a bright blur. Molly shielded her eyes against the glare. She could just make out the shape of the Summer Point Towers office complex a few yards away to which she had been summoned.

Checking to be sure she had locked her car door, Molly headed toward the bulky form ahead, holding her arms close to her body. It was February and forty-two degrees—cold, very cold for California.

It was also one of the last places Molly would have wanted to be if she had been given a choice. Handling service complaints against her telephone installation crew was part of her job. But being called out on Valentine’s Day from the warm bed she had collapsed into three hours before seemed above and beyond, she thought grumpily. As she got near enough to the building to see the glass doors of the entrance, she attempted to shake off her rotten mood.

But her brain wasn’t through grousing. It was bad enough to be thirty-four and to go to bed alone on the traditional lovers’ holiday because there was no likely lover within a hundred yards of her