Page 36 (1/2)

'Witnesses, you mean!' Sian sneered He yanked the car door open and pushed her into the front passenger seat as if she were a rag doll As she sprawled there, lie, he slaet in beside her 'You don't itnesses, do you?' she accused, and he stared fixedly at her 'Just as there were no witnesses when you forced my car off the road,' Sian burst out, alarht, furious eyes were full of threat, but he started the engine and drove off without trying to answer her She should, perhaps, have held her tongue then It ht have been wiser, not to say safer, but she was in a reckless mood and full of hurt resentment

'Why did you do it? I thought it was just bad driving at first; you didn't care if I skidded off the road or not! But it was more than that, I think, wasn't it? Otherwise you'd have stopped to make sure I wasn't badly hurt, but you put your foot down and shot away before anyone could get your nu aloud, rather than actually accusing him The idea had only just occurred to her, and one part of her mind still didn't believe it Cass wasn't the murderous type Or was he?

'You were trying to hurtto kill me!'

CHAPTER EIGHT

'You're hysterical!' said Cass curtly, his foot down on the accelerator and the car hurtling along at around eighty miles an hour now that they were outside the built-up area s

urrounding the hospital

'I' of the kind! I'm just furious!' snapped Sian, a nervous eye on the speedo so damn fast!'

Hedges flashed by, greenopen-mouthed as they passed them, but Cass didn't slon for quite a few moments

'You can't believe anyone tried to kill you! Why should they?' heodd in his voice; his face was drawn and frowning Sian hadn't been talking rationally, she had been using her instincts, and she used the hiht have been the driver who forced her off the road and then drove aithout stopping

'Was it you?' she asked huskily, wanting hier to believe him if he said it wasn't true

He didn't answer, though He shot her a look and then stared back at the road, brows knit

Her sto, as if she was about to cry, but she wouldn't cry over hiarded the landscape through which they were driving It was so calm and tranquil; Sian wished she felt like that, but her mood was stormy and she contrarily wished the weather matched it

Cass suddenly turned off the road and parked in a leafy lay-by behind which ran a little wood of oak and beech and hazel trees

Sian shrank back against the seat as he turned to face her 'Why have you stopped? Start the car I want to get back'

'Not until we've talked this out!'