Dangerously Charming by Deborah Blake

Author:Deborah Blake
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-08-01T11:07:50+00:00

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TWO hundred and sixty miles down the Natchez Trace Parkway, then a night spent in one of the parkway campgrounds in Mississippi. The next day saw them driving about three hundred miles, stopping to rest near Sarepta, Lousiana. Their sixth night was spent in the Davy Crockett National Forest, near Crockett, Texas. They’d only gone one hundred and seventy miles that day, but Mick insisted that Jenna needed the breather he’d promised her, and she couldn’t really disagree. It was nice to be about to take a hot shower at the campgrounds, and take a few hours to sit on the shore of the Ratcliff Lake, enjoying the feeling of not having the ground moving underneath her.

The next morning they got on US-79, which would take them most of the rest of the way to their destination. Mick decided to stop taking back roads, as they had for much of the way since the attack in West Virginia, and stick to the highway for the last leg of the journey. There had been no sign of either Paranormal or Human adversaries since that night in the forest, and with a five-hour trip ahead of them, he wanted to make as good time as they could, so they would arrive at the Enchanted Rock park while it was still light out.

Jenna was torn between eagerness to get to their goal and fear that once they arrived, it would turn out to be another dead end. If that was true, she had no idea what she’d do next.

They stopped for lunch at a small diner along the way. Jenna looked up from her cheeseburger (with extra pickles and jalapeño peppers) to see Mick cast a slightly worried glance out the window at the road that ran past the parking lot. She looked, too, but didn’t see anything other than the usual cars and trucks whizzing by, the same sight she’d been enjoying from the back of the motorcycle for days.

“Something wrong?” she asked, snagging a curly fry off of his plate and dragging it through a pile of ketchup.

He gave her a crooked grin and pushed a pile of fries onto her plate. “No, everything is fine,” he said. “Except for the fact that you keep stealing my food. I know you’re eating for two, but at the rate you’re going, you’re going to need even bigger clothes than the ones we picked up at that Walmart three days ago.”

“Nice,” she said. “You’d think after all these centuries you’d know better than to insult a woman’s weight. Jeez.” She ate another fry. “Also, points for trying, but you’re not distracting me from my question. You look worried. Why?”

Mick shrugged, polishing off his third chili dog in a single bite. “I might have spotted the same car behind us a few times. But it was one of those black Ford Explorers, and there are a lot of them around, so I’m probably just being paranoid. Besides, even if it was the same car, we’re on a main highway.

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