Cold Case at Cardwell Ranch by B.J. Daniels

Author:B.J. Daniels
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-05-07T19:48:31+00:00

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WACO REGRETTED HIS words as all the color drained from Ella’s face. She wanted to believe the best of her mother. He hadn’t wanted to take that away from her. “I’m sorry.”

She quickly recovered, but he could still see fear in her green eyes. Of course, her mother would be a suspect, given that Stacy had been married to Marvin when he disappeared. But she hadn’t known about the writing on the wall, the one thing that could get Stacy convicted of murder.

The sun hung low in the sky, painting them with a golden patina. He looked at Ella and felt something snap inside him. Damn, but the woman was beautiful. Not just beautiful. Smart, sexy—the whole package. The thought struck him like a crowbar upside his head. A man would have to be a fool not to have noticed.

He’d noticed, but it hadn’t hit him at a primal level before. Now that it had, there was no going back, he realized.

“What?” Ella asked, frowning at him.

He stared at her, hoping he hadn’t said the words out loud.

“You were saying something about the hotel?” she asked.

Hotel. “Given all the traffic backed up with my SUV sideways in the highway, I suppose we should move our rigs, huh.”

She gave him a blank look since there was no traffic. “Sarcasm? Really?”

Without another word, Ella turned and walked back to her pickup. He watched her climb in behind the wheel before he climbed behind his. Starting the motor, he pulled to the side of the road and let her lead the way back into Hell and Gone. That revelation about Ella had come with an ache like nothing he’d ever felt. He wanted to protect her at the same time he wanted to ravish her.

Waco shook his head, telling himself that he needed food. It had been a long day and this case was driving him a little crazy. Worse, just the sight of the sorry excuse for a town on the horizon filled him with worry. How was he going to keep Ella safe? Worse still, he didn’t know how to deal with this mix of feelings. Nothing good will come of this, he thought.

Yet he had no choice but to stick to Ella. Stacy Cardwell was here. Unfortunately, so were some dangerous people. He’d thought he’d recognized the man who’d left the bar earlier to watch them leave. Another fugitive from justice. This one from an assault case Waco had worked on.

The sun had sunk behind some mountains in the distance by the time he parked in front of the hotel and waited for Ella to get out of her pickup.

With nightfall coming on, both he and Ella were stuck in Hell and Gone. Just the two of them in this old hotel tonight. And that meant they were both in serious danger for a whole lot of reasons.

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