Dangerous Impostor by Virginia Smith

Author:Virginia Smith
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2011-11-11T23:00:00+00:00

The shuttle bus’s brakes threw Brent off balance, and his arm brushed hard against the person seated on the bench next to him.

“Sorry,” he mumbled.

The woman didn’t even pause in her conversation with the lady on her other side. He settled the duffel bag more securely on his lap and angled toward Lauren as he slipped his cell phone from his pocket.

She leaned toward him and whispered, “Where are we going?”

“To a friend’s, I hope.”

Her eyebrows arched. “You hope?”

Instead of responding, he slid his finger across his phone’s screen until he found Mason’s number, then placed the call. Mason picked up on the second ring.

“There you are. I’ve been gnawing my nubs, waiting for a call. What’s going on?”

Brent glanced around the crowded bus. No one was paying attention to him, but he certainly couldn’t detail everything that had happened since he last spoke to his friend.

“A lot.” Mason would have to be content with that for the time being. “Listen, I need another favor. Could you give your jailer friend a call? See if it’s okay for us to come over.”

“Us?”

Brent winced at the disapproval he heard in Mason’s voice. He glanced at Lauren, whose anxious expression squeezed a place deep in his chest. “Yeah. Long story. I’ll fill you in later, I promise.” He lowered his voice so no one but Lauren could hear his next words. “Tell him we’d prefer not to advertise our location.”

“Oh, man, oh, man. This sounds bad. You know if I have to fly out there and ID your carcass in a Las Vegas morgue, that’s really going to tick me off, right?”

Despite the sarcastic jab, Brent heard worry in Mason’s voice. He poured as much confidence into his response as he could manage. “Don’t worry. That’s not going to happen.”

At least, I hope not.

“All right, if you say so.” Mason didn’t sound convinced. “Where are you? Still at the Hollywood Casino?”

“Not anymore.” He searched the landscape through the bus’s windows. “We’re on the Strip, not far from the Tropicana.”

“Let me give Caleb a call and I’ll get right back to you.”

The line went silent. He lowered the phone and looked into Lauren’s anxious face.

“We’re going to see a jailer?”

“He used to be a jailer. I’m not sure what he does now.”

The hollows in her cheeks seemed to deepen as she received that information. “You’re not sure? I thought he was your friend.”

“Sort of. He’s a friend of a friend.”

The bus lurched to a halt, and her hands clutched the strap of the duffel bag containing the server. People left their seats to get off the bus, and others waited on the sidewalk to take their places. Lauren’s eyes moved as she scanned those waiting, and she inched a fraction closer to him. Her leg trembled against his, whether from nerves or the vibration of the bus’s engine he couldn’t tell. Probably nerves, and who could blame her? Brent would have put a comforting arm around her shoulders, but after the intensity of their kiss earlier, he didn’t dare.

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