Already Gone by Diane Benefiel

Author:Diane Benefiel
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: romantic suspense, contemporary romance, secrets revealed, lovers reunite, he has been gone for ten years, he returns undercover on a dangerous mission, overcoming heartbreak, she doesnt want him back in her life, she made a life without him, small town in the high sierras
Publisher: Boroughs Publishing Group

Chapter Eleven

With the sun’s rays long in the late afternoon sky, Maddy stepped out the back door with Sophie on her leash. The storm had cleared out and, according to her outside thermometer, the temperature was a frigid twenty-six degrees. She’d dug out the snow in the area behind her cabin with hopes of reestablishing the poop spot for Sophie. While the dog did her business, Maddy checked the messages on her phone because, for the moment, the cell phone gods were smiling and allowing service in her little corner of the mountain. Nothing from Logan, of course. He didn’t even have her cell number. The unfinished business between them loomed like an oppressive blanket of fog.

She tromped through the path she’d shoveled to the woodshed, glancing up at the sound of an engine and tires crunching on snow. A black truck with a dented front end and a shell over the bed turned onto her driveway. She didn’t recognize the vehicle. Maybe some mountain visitor had taken a wrong turn. But the truck didn’t turn around, instead pulling up to the area Theo had cleared in front of her carport.

Maddy tightened her grip on the leash when the passenger door opened and a man exited the vehicle. The driver, wearing dark sunglasses even though the last of the sun’s rays were filtered by the surrounding forest, stayed in the truck with the engine idling. But it was the man who approached her who commanded her attention. It was the same man who had come in the café, the one Logan had described as Horvath. His skin was so pale it looked like he hadn’t seen the sun in months, and without a beanie covering his head, his hair hung to his shoulders, dark and lanky. A deep purple bruise on his temple showed in stark contrast to the pasty white skin. A frisson of warning skated up her spine when he turned black eyes on her, his smile almost gleeful.

“We meet again. How,” he paused, gaze running up her body, “stimulating.”

“What do you want?” Even with the many layers she wore against the cold, the look in his eyes gave her the feeling of clammy fingers groping unwanted along her skin. She kept her tone neutral even as Sophie growled low in her throat.

He stared at the dog, then at her. “Sadly, not you at the moment. I’m looking for someone. I have a house on the other side of this ridge.” He gestured to the snowy slope. “Isn’t that exciting? We’re neighbors.”

When she didn’t respond, he continued, “A guy who works for me went missing yesterday. I wondered if he headed this way.”

“I haven’t seen any strangers in the area.” At least that was truthful. She had no doubt this bastard was talking about Logan. The evidence of the confrontation between them was there in the injuries to his face.

“Not a whole lot of places he could have gone if he was going to survive. This place is the most likely.

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