Bad Man…can kidnap me anytime you want.”
At which point Peter stopped the car in the middle of the road, grabbed her into a rough embrace and kissed her. When they broke apart she added, “But not for a couple of days, all right?”Chapter Forty-One
When she arrived at work on Monday, Jane had already prepared a much toned-down version of how she’d spent her weekend (but considerably less toned-down than the version she’d given her parents—though her mother had actually winked knowingly at her when Jane had told it to them) for the interrogation she had come to expect from Suzy. She thought Suzy would be titillated by the idea of being ‘kidnapped’, though in this version Jane would still be blindfolded but maybe not handcuffed and certainly not stripped, and would be lying on the back seat, not in the trunk.
