Betting on a Good Luck Cowboy by Sara Richardson

Author:Sara Richardson [RICHARDSON, SARA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2023-06-06T00:00:00+00:00

Breaking and entering had never been a skill Tess wanted to master, but Natalie had given her no other choice.

She parked the truck down the hill from the Klines’ property and cut the engine, her nerves prickling. When her alarm had gone off at two o’clock in the morning, she’d briefly considered abandoning her mission, but she had to know if that UTV was sitting in Brad’s garage. If Natalie wasn’t going to check, she had to. She had to get a peek in that garage for her own peace of mind. It wasn’t breaking the law if you were just planning to look in a friend’s garage in the middle of the night, right? She wasn’t going to take anything, after all.

Before she lost the nerve, Tess put up the hood of her dark sweatshirt, grabbed her flashlight and backpack, and then slid out of the driver’s seat into the cold. Everything seemed so much quieter at night. Even her footsteps in the grass sounded deafening as she crept away from the truck, though it was hard to hear much over the thundering beat of her heart.

Keeping a low profile, Tess made her way through the woods, aiming the flashlight at the ground in front of her boots. She’d considered bringing Silas in with her but she couldn’t ask him to risk getting caught. She would ask him not to go on this upcoming mission but she didn’t want to force him to stay because she’d gotten him into trouble.

So she was on her own out here. In the middle of the night. Just her and the coyotes and the bears.

At the edge of the woods, Tess paused, gauging the best route through the pasture. The waning gibbous moon gave off enough light that she could see out in the open, so she tucked her flashlight in her backpack and decided to move along the fence all the way up to the property. Judging from the picture Morgan had shared with her, it appeared the UTV had been stored in the main garage, which would prove tricky given its close proximity to both Brad’s house and his parents’ place.

She would have to move quietly and not get caught. There was no other option.

With that in mind, she moved slowly along the fence line, watching the houses to make sure all stayed dark. Now all she needed to do was get close enough to peek in the windows of the garage so she could snap a picture on her phone and then she’d be out of there.

Tess swiftly crossed the driveway, doing her best to stay out of the floodlights coming from the houses, and walked the perimeter of the garage in the shadows.

Damn. Curtains covered every window. She tried the door handle on the back side but it was locked. Okay, new plan. She’d climb in through one of those windows and take a quick look around.

Tess walked back along the right side, away from both houses—which still sat dark and quiet, thank God—and pushed against the glass pane.

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