Dangerous Secrets: Callaghan Brothers, Book 1 by Zanders Abbie

Author:Zanders, Abbie [Zanders, Abbie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-11-19T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Shane watched as Taryn filled up the car with fuel, pulling forward into a parking spot while she went inside to pay. He had positioned himself in such a way that all public, non-emergency exits were within his line of sight. When several minutes went by and Taryn still hadn’t emerged, the first niggling of unease began.

Maybe she was getting coffee, or stocking up on a few items for the road, Kieran suggested when Shane quietly voiced his concerns over the hidden mic. It sounded reasonable enough, but Kieran must have felt the same unease, because he was already en route to the truck stop.

After waiting for what he felt was a more than reasonable amount of time, Shane could delay no longer. With his hair tucked up under a baseball cap and dark sunglasses, he entered the store. Just inside the door, he scanned front to back, left to right with a skilled eye. There was no sign of her.

Muttering curses under his breath, he began a path through the convenience store, walking a perpendicular path along the aisles so he could see easily down each one as he passed. She was small enough to be hidden by the shelving and large displays, after all. But as he exhausted each section, the bad feeling in his gut grew.

At the back of the store, Shane paused. He was sure she hadn’t slipped out – he’d kept careful watch - which meant that she had to be in the ladies restroom; it was the only logical conclusion. Not quite desperate enough to enter that forbidden area yet, he made up his mind to return to the front of the store. He checked his watch. It hadn’t been that long, really. He’d give her another five minutes.

Shane rounded the corner and felt something collide against his chest. Glancing down, he saw the form of a young girl. She had dark red hair, cut unevenly and hanging in poker-straight jagged spikes that framed her pale face. Her eyes – an unnatural aquamarine – glared at him, framed in thick black liner that ended in scrolls beneath her eyes like some kind of Egyptian hieroglyph. Piercings adorned the entire length of her ears, her nose, and her lips.

Shane extended his hand down toward the black-clad figure to help her up, but she swatted it away. He muttered a quick apology, while continuing to scan the store, so the brief look of terror on her face didn’t immediately register. The girl pulled herself up and stomped away without saying a word, but the vicious scowl on her face pretty much said it all. Shane shook his head. He’d never understood the whole Goth thing. She might have been a pretty girl under all that makeup and attitude, but who could tell?

Still, he found his gaze drawn back to the retreating figure several times as he kept watch for Taryn. There was something oddly familiar about the sway of her hips, more womanly than he would have expected from such a young girl.

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