Cold Dawn by Carla Neggers

Author:Carla Neggers [Neggers, Carla]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780778328247
Publisher: Mira
Published: 2010-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

Beverly Hills, California

Grit woke up and checked his BlackBerry. He didn’t have any emails, text messages or voice mails from anyone but Admiral Jenkins, his boss, who’d left one of each at around one in the morning East Coast time. Grit eyed the email subject heading: Los Angeles?

Apparently the admiral didn’t like Grit’s choice of airport.

Nothing anyone could do about it now. Grit deleted all three messages.

He went through his routine to put on his prosthesis and headed down the hall to the kitchen. It was a bright, beautiful morning in Beverly Hills. No one was around. He figured Sean was off making money or putting out fires, but he noticed Hannah and Beth were out by the pool. He glanced at the clock and saw that it was just after ten. Later than he thought.

He ventured outside for coffee, fruit, cheese and cute mini-muffins at a sunny table by the pool. While he was listening to Beth describe a discussion back in Black Falls between foodie Dominique Belair and Washington reporter Myrtle Smith over the virtues of different varieties of peaches, Grit received a series of text messages—one after another—from Charlie Neal. They came through under an obvious alias, but Grit wasn’t even curious how Charlie had pulled them off.

Each message included a piece of the address for his sister Marissa’s actor ex-boyfriend, Trent Stevens.

Grit didn’t text Charlie back.

Hannah and Beth were dressed in shorts and T-shirts, Hannah’s legs slightly less pale than Beth’s. Both had obviously slathered on sunscreen. Grit, who was in civilian cargo pants and a polo shirt, didn’t bother. He wasn’t spending the day by the pool.

“It was cool last week,” Hannah said.

“It’s cool this week,” he said. “You two just think it’s warm because you’re used to it being four degrees.”

“You did your SEAL training out here,” Beth said, holding a bunch of grapes in her lap.

“Not in Beverly Hills.”

She rolled her eyes. “I know not in Beverly Hills.”

“I don’t scare you, do I?”

“What?”

He grinned and helped himself to a strawberry. “Never mind. I trained down the road on Coronado. What’re you two doing today?”

“Hannah’s studying this morning,” Beth said. “I’ll hang out here. Then we’re doing a ladies’ lunch at the Beverly Hills Hotel. You’re welcome to join us.”

“I’m not a lady.”

Another roll of the eyes. Grit figured Beth Harper deserved sunlight, warmth and time away from Vermont, given the stresses of the past winter. She’d been on the search team that had hiked up the remote north side of Cameron Mountain when one of Lowell Whittaker’s paid killers had pinned down Jo, Elijah, Hannah’s brother Devin and another teenager—the stepdaughter of a murdered ambassador—in a tiny cabin.

By the time Beth arrived, the killer, a brutal type named Kyle Rigby, was dead. Elijah had shot him while Jo provided cover from the cabin and kept the two teenagers alive.

Trooper Thorne had been on the team that morning.

Beth was the second daughter of a Black Falls retired police chief, one of the co-owners of

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