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side.
    “I…” He gazed around the restaurant, took
in the toppled chairs and the wrecked tables. The lack of liquor bottles behind
the bar. “Someone broke in.”
    “They’ve wrecked the place, taken food and
booze. The safe is open,” Dina said, her thin pixie face a shade paler than
normal.
    The clomp of boots had Robbie turning his
head. The security men had arrived.
    “What happened?” one of the uniformed men
demanded.
    “Someone burst through the door. They
must’ve knocked me out. That’s all I remember,” Robbie said.
    “Insurance paperwork’s in order,” a second
security man said after pushing a few buttons and reading the screen of his genic
mini-tab. “We can proceed. Take his statement while I question the neighboring
traders.”
    Dina helped Robbie to his feet and righted
a chair for him. He sank onto it. “Water,” he gasped, and while Dina rushed to
get water, his brain slipped back into gear.
    Well hell. Eva had been right.
    The stupid old bitch had taken the bait.

Chapter Two
     
    Something woke Eva. An out-of-place noise.
A faint rustle. A footfall?
    She sat up in bed, eyes straining to pierce
the darkness of their chalet. “Casey?”
    Casey didn’t answer.
    “C-Casey?” Although she aimed for a firm
timbre, her voice emerged coated with fear because her gut was screaming
something was wrong. Casey was a light sleeper. Why wasn’t she answering?
    A prickling sensation crawled up her spine
while her gaze roved the darkness, searching, searching, searching, as senses
honed from growing up on the streets worked overtime.
    Someone, something was in their
chalet.
    “Casey, are you there?” Her friend hadn’t
been sleeping well during the two solar days they’d been at the resort and
sometimes went for a walk along the beach. Maybe that was it. She’d woken just
as Casey was leaving. She listened for an instant longer and heard nothing.
Slowly, she willed her body to relax, her breathing to return to normal.
    A black shape leaped at her without
warning. She screamed, scrambled back, away. A hand slapped over her mouth. Another
pushed her flat to the mattress. Memories rose like a specter, tossed her into
a thick pool of fear.
    “Keep still. I’m not going to hurt you,” a
masculine voice growled against her ear.
    Her breath seesawed in and out. A shudder
went through her. He wasn’t going to get her again. He wasn’t .
    She was stronger now. More capable.
    She let her body go limp, waited for her
captor to relax…
    Then kicked, connecting with hard muscle.
    “Fuck,” he snarled and grabbed her roughly.
    With a screech, she sank her teeth into his
arm and bit down until blood flowed into her mouth. He bellowed, flinging her
away. She was up and racing for the door before he could seize her again.
    “ Oomph !” She blundered into a low
table, bashing her shins. The table skidded across the tiles, signaling her
location.
    Escape. She had to get to the door. Run to
the next chalet for help. Find Casey. Frantic, Eva hugged the wall and slid
toward the door, her gaze darting to and fro, trying to locate the man in the
darkness.
    He’d felt big, muscular, but he stalked
like a predator, so silent. A tremble rippled through her body, her skin prickled,
hair at the back of her neck lifted with foreboding.
    Damn it. Where’s Casey?
    A hell of a time for her to do a moonlight
flit.
    Eva inched farther along the wall, trying
to picture the chalet interior in her mind. She reached out, hit the door
handle.
    “Got you,” a man whispered.
    Eva yelped and she ducked her head to bite
again. Her captor grunted, grasped her firmly and tossed her back on the sleep-bed.
    No surrender! No capitulation without a fight. She wielded her elbows, aiming for
his ribs.
    “Fuck it. Stop fighting.” He cursed a
colorful streak, snatched her again, fingers biting into her arms.
    Strong. Too strong .
    Gods, it was happening again …
    “Let me go. Please, let me go and I won’t
tell anyone.” Her