Cowboy Undercover by Alice Sharpe

Author:Alice Sharpe [Sharpe, Alice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-11-09T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

After five minutes of preoccupied walking, Chance turned around and retraced his steps to Lily’s door. He raised his hand to knock and then dropped it. Once again he left only this time he kept going.

Of all the women, he had to be stuck on her. What in the hell was wrong with him? Okay, okay, it wasn’t really him, it was her. Prickly and sensitive and utterly infuriating. For two cents, he’d...

He’d nothing. But there’d been a change in her before she closed the door. It was like she’d pulled the shades, turned off the light, retreated inside herself, shutting him away.

Apart from her now, he reviewed his behavior in light of the fact that her son was missing. Had he come across as a shallow beast interested only in his own pursuits? Damn it, didn’t she know or trust him more than that?

The answer was so obvious it hurt. The answer was no. She’d proven it over and over again and she’d tried to warn him that was how she felt. Well, he wouldn’t walk out on her or Charlie, but he had to get his mind out of the bedroom and fix this situation so he could go home where he wasn’t constantly being second-guessed.

He entered the bunker and picked his way back to the tunnel entrance, feeling around in the dark until he found the right box and the door swung open. A second later, entrance once more concealed, he jogged toward the church, his movement causing light from the lantern to dart over the dirt and boards. He kept up that pace until he got to the wide spot where he remembered the key Lily had found. Sure enough, it opened the lock on the trunk.

He lifted the lid with the sense of discovery almost everyone feels when unlocking a potential secret, but it was anticlimactic without Lily there to share it. Was that what he could look forward to from now on? Was this why his father kept getting married? Was being alone so terrible?

Hell no.

He hadn’t known what to expect he would find in the trunk but it wasn’t a half-dozen colorful spiral-bound notebooks, the kind kids take to school. He opened one of them and found it crammed with small irregular handwriting that was really tricky to read. At first he thought it was written in code, but then he decided that it was just borderline illegible. Here and there he could make out a word. He thumbed through the book looking for some clue to the writer’s identity, disappointed it hadn’t been more revealing.

And then a name popped out from the writing: Darke Fallon.

At last!

Interested now, he looked through each of the books and discovered the name reoccurred in each of them several times, always buried in the text. He squeezed his eyes closed for a moment to ease the burning sensation and tried reading again. Eventually he deciphered a whole page and realized Darke Fallon was the hero in what appeared to be a poorly written and sexually explicit series of adventure stories.

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