Colton Destiny by Justine Davis

Author:Justine Davis
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9780373277902
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-08-20T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Emma let her head fall back on the headrest. She was tired. She could no longer deny it. She was nearly exhausted, not so much because her days had been long, although they had, but because they had been fruitless. She’d never run into so many dead ends, so many leads that went nowhere, such a lack of real clues or evidence.

And of course the dreams weren’t helping. Her nights had been a tangled cacophony of good and evil, horrible memories of her own entwined with images from that evening at Caleb’s. It was as if her brain was weary of dealing with the two extremes and threw them all into the bubbling brew of her subconscious, to escape and torment her when she finally gave in to sleep.

She told herself it was just her frustration that made this case seem so much more important than any other. The case she was on at the moment was always the most important at the time, but this one seemed to have assumed huge proportions in her mind. It had to do only with the lack of headway, she assured herself.

And nothing to do with Caleb and his charming, lovable family.

She never should have gone there the other night. It had been too nice. Too enjoyable.

Too personal.

Somewhere during that evening she’d crossed a line. Not overtly—she’d done or said nothing wrong—but in her mind, she knew she had stepped into an ethical and inward morass. Because in Caleb’s house she had found what she had missed the most since striking out on her own and leaving the

Double C. While she had missed the ranch, the space, the horses, the very land of her home, she missed the people the most, and the sense of family. Not that it wasn’t still her home anytime she wanted, but it wasn’t the same, even with Piper and Sawyer still there. It wasn’t like it had been with Caleb and his girls that night.

And that, she told herself sternly, was the very reason she could not go back. She would keep him up-to-date, in a professional manner, but no more warm, cozy evenings. Of course, there was that cell-phone thing, which meant in order to keep him apprised she would have to see him face-to-face, but she would do it at his shop or somewhere else. The image of that quiet, solid house, full of golden light and family bonds, threatened to burrow into a heart she only now, after all this time, admitted was homesick for that feeling.

“So much for being an independent, career-minded woman,” she muttered to herself. The fact that she was supposedly a tough, trained federal agent was something she didn’t want to acknowledge just now.

She allowed herself a moment of rest, her eyes closed, justifying it by forcing herself to go through it all again, every bit of knowledge she’d gleaned since she’d been here. It wouldn’t take long, she thought ruefully, because there was so little. But she ran through it anyway.

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