Cowboy to the Max by Herron Rita

Author:Herron, Rita [Herron, Rita]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-04-22T05:00:00+00:00

SADIE’S SKIN CRAWLED with nerves as they sped away from the crime scene. The image of that poor dead woman haunted her, the fact that she had once wanted to be a doctor compounding her guilt.

You couldn’t have saved her.

The truck bounced over a rut, jarring her and reminding her to fasten her seat belt.

The sound of a police siren wailing rent the night, and she glanced back to see a squad car racing toward them from the opposite direction. Probably backup for the cops at Loretta’s house.

The car zoomed by in a blur, and she breathed out in relief. But a minute later, Carter cursed. “Dammit, he made us.”

Sadie gripped the door handle and glanced back, her heart pounding as the squad car made a U-turn to chase them.

Carter punched the gas and accelerated, the tires grinding gravel as the truck shot forward. She clung to the door, her heart hammering as Carter swerved down a side dirt road.

“Where are you going?”

“It’s a shortcut. Maybe we’ll throw them off.”

But they had no such luck. The police car swerved and sped up, eating the distance between them. Sadie’s pulse jackknifed. They were going to get caught and Carter would go to jail, and she would have to beg for someone to believe her.

Thankfully traffic was minimal, and for the next few minutes Carter wound around the curves, taking several shortcuts to lose the cop.

But he stayed on their tail, closing in. Then out of nowhere two motorcycles raced toward them, flying as if they were on a racetrack. One tried to pass the other, and Carter swerved to avoid it, screeching along the shoulder of the road.

The cop nearly crashed into the oncoming motorcycle and had to veer right to avoid a head-on collision. He must have overcompensated or lost control, because tires squealed, then he crashed into a boulder, siren still wailing.

Carter drove on, but Sadie was sweating, her hands clenched in her lap. “Do you think he’s hurt?”

“I don’t know.” A vein throbbed in Carter’s neck. “Can you see anything?”

She craned her neck. The motorcycle racers had left him in the wind, dust spewing from their tires, but she spotted the driver’s door open.

“He’s getting out, he’s alive,” she said on a ragged whisper.

The strain on Carter’s face lifted slightly. “Probably calling us in, though, so be on the lookout for more police.”

Sadie sighed wearily. “We need to switch cars. The cops will be looking for this truck.”

Carter’s jaw tightened, then he gave a brief nod. The silence thickened between them as they followed the deserted road, but once they turned onto the main highway leading into Laredo and back toward their motel, another cop climbed on their tail.

Carter made several switchback turns in the city, steering around other cars, through alleys, then ducked into a parking garage and finally lost their tail.

By the time they reached the motel, Sadie’s heart was beating so fast she felt like her chest would explode.

Carter pulled the truck around to the back of the parking lot out of sight from the street, and they ducked inside the motel room.

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