Colby Law by Debra Webb

Author:Debra Webb
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Suspense
ISBN: 9781459227590
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-05-02T00:07:06+00:00

Chapter Nine

Second Chance Ranch, 8:50 a.m.

Lyle had tried to reason with Sadie for more than an hour. She refused to listen. He sat on the porch now, her final order still resounding in his ears.

Leave! And don’t ever come back.

He’d just gotten approval from Simon to do what he’d hoped to put off until the danger had passed.

Lyle pushed to his feet and walked to his truck. His hands shook as he unlocked the storage compartment behind the driver’s seat. He removed the leather pouch containing the album. How had he come to be the person who would exert this shocking blow? Chance? Fate? Whatever the reason, he prayed that God would give him the wisdom to do this right and the strength and opportunity to protect Sadie afterward.

He hesitated at the door, took a deep breath, then rapped on the wood still marred by the threat the sheriff had taken one look at and chalked up to one of Sadie’s many enemies pulling a prank on her. Sheriff Cox had additionally suggested that the missing horse was the same. He’d show up, Cox had declared.

Clearly the man had concluded exactly what Gus Gilmore had told him to conclude. Gus had been using his power to manipulate Sadie for years. To his credit, he had protected her once or twice when she’d pursued her goals a little too passionately. But manipulation was manipulation. Neither Gus nor the sheriff understood that some of the events occurring now were about far more than Gus and Sadie’s relationship. The danger was real.

Had Gus learned that the Colby Agency was looking into Rafe Barker’s request? Discovering that Lyle worked for the Colby Agency had probably been easy. But to learn the case he was on and to use some aspect of it to scare Sadie, that was just plain evil. As stern and hard as Gus Gilmore had always seemed to Lyle, this was a new low even for him—if he was the one responsible.

Sadie opened the door and glared at him, fury emanating from her whole body. At least now she wasn’t toting her shotgun. “What is it going to take to get you out of my life, Lyle McCaleb?”

“You wanted the truth.” He indicated the package he held, emotion crowding into his chest. “I’ve been authorized to give you that now, if you’re sure that’s what you want.” Misery dumped another load on his shoulders.

She stared at the leather pouch he held, the color seeping from her face even though she had no idea what was inside. Deep in her heart she suspected something was off with her history. Lyle had sensed that uneasiness since his arrival early yesterday. Her frustration with life in general was about a little more than Gus or him.

“You have five minutes,” she said as she stepped back and pulled the door open wider, “to convince me to hear you out. Don’t test my patience.”

“Fair enough.”

“If I think for one second that you’re giving me the runaround, I’m done,” she added, leading the way to the living room.

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