Cowboy Delirium by Joanna Wayne

Author:Joanna Wayne [Wayne, Joanna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-12-22T23:00:00+00:00

SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY Rio had lost complete control of Jaime, if he’d ever had it. She was dynamite in a petite, blond package. He’d known from first bite that she was a spitfire.

He knew now she was far more. Valiant was the first word that came to mind, a description the military reserved for their finest. They were frequently the ones who ended up dead on the battlefield. He would not let that happen to Jaime.

They were still an hour from the cabin on Lake Livingston and the sun was already beaming its first light above the gray horizon. He’d have lots of explaining to do if they arrived after Luke’s replacement, but that didn’t loom as his biggest problem. Decoding the CDs did.

He checked his speed. His foot was heavy on the accelerator, as usual. Slowing to just a few miles above the limit, he turned to Jaime. “Watch for a twenty-four-hour Walmart.”

“Oh, goody,” she said, “a shopping trip. You can buy me a pair of shoes to replace the ones you murdered.”

“I’ll buy you two when this is over, providing they don’t cost more than ten dollars a pair.”

She laughed. “When this is over I will have to introduce you to the world of Manolo Blahnik, Gucci and Jimmy Choo.”

“I live for that,” he teased. “Right now we need a laptop so that I can start decoding those files.”

“Can you buy one at Wal-Mart?”

“I don’t know, but that’s the best option I can think of for shopping before dawn.”

“You’re in luck. I have a better option.” She reached beneath her seat for the black tote that held their frozen pizza. She pulled out a laptop. “I knew we wouldn’t have Internet connections in the cabin, but I’d planned to hide this under my bed and keep a journal of our mission.”

“Our highly confidential mission.” But he reached over and patted the top of the laptop. “You are now officially promoted, partner.”

She gave him a salute. “Unfortunately I didn’t have time to recharge the battery and it’s completely down. Otherwise I could drive and you could start decoding.”

“That we can work around. But neither Luke’s replacement nor Poncho can know we have it.”

“Naturally.”

Liberation from the need to purchase a laptop at sunrise freed his mind to consider the files themselves and what they could mean to the mission. His guess was that the cargo was not yet in the cartel’s hands. Had it been, Jaime’s family would know when and where to have that plane waiting for them.

If he or someone in the CIA could determine from the files what was being smuggled, they could possibly stop the shipment from ever reaching the cartel’s hands. Which meant he had to get these files to the CIA as soon as he got them copied onto Jaime’s computer.

A handful of miles down the road, he glanced over at Jaime. She appeared to have fallen fast asleep. He’d keep his voice low, but he needed to make a couple of calls

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