Dark 'N' Deadly (Federal K-9) by Tee O'Fallon

Author:Tee O'Fallon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Action & Adventure Romance Fiction; Crime Fiction; Mystery & Suspense Romance; War & Military Action Fiction; Women's Adventure Fiction; Police Procedurals; Kidnapping Crime Fiction; Opposites Attract; Revenge: Gritty; New Jersey; Redemption; Summer; Redhead Heroine; German Shepherd; Armed N Ready; Rough N Ready; Tee O’Fallon; Entangled Publishing; Amara; Special Agent; K-9 suspense books; Special Agent; Law Enforcement; Mystery; Contemporary romance; Opposites Attract Romance; New Jersey; Summer; Dutch Shephard
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (Amara)
Published: 2019-09-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Downward Dog. Chaturanga. Cobra. Warrior. Child’s Pose…

It was just past nine p.m. and Tess was exhausted. No matter what she tried, nothing helped. Her muscles were loose, but her mind roiled with tension, totally undermining any good she’d just done to her body. Groaning, she gave up then rolled onto her back and stared at the ceiling.

Mark Pritchard is here. In New Jersey. The man could still make her skin crawl.

It was a foregone conclusion that the second she’d floored the truck away from the barn, the first thing Pritchard had done was to call her stepfather. The cell phone airwaves had to be lighting up the sky brighter than any lightning storm.

Which meant…

I’m back on the grid.

Everything she’d done to escape her past and leave it permanently behind…all for naught.

Am I strong enough to face him?

Pritchard was one thing—a sleazy bastard, to say the least, but her fear of him was solely physical. At least she’d managed to give him a small taste of what he deserved. Her stepfather, on the other hand, had smacked her around then beat on her emotions with his cruel words. He was the only adult figure in most of her life after her mother died. He should have been everything to her.

Father. Parent. Guardian. Counselor. In the absence of a mother, someone to help a young girl through all the angst that came with teenage years. Instead, he’d been cruel and overbearing, prohibiting her from leaving the house. No school, friends, or boys. She hadn’t known any other way, didn’t know there was another life out there somewhere—one without emotional and physical beatings every day of her pathetic life.

One without men like Pritchard.

The threat of being given to a rapist as if she were a bearskin rug to be bartered had hung over her head for years. The second Pritchard moved into town and hooked up with her father, his sick eyes had followed her everywhere. Fear of being handed over to him was the cruelest thing her stepfather could have done. It had been the final straw, the one that had shown her just how much he not only didn’t love her but thought of her as a piece of property, something to be sold when it suited his needs.

Jesse was right. Her stepfather would pop a blood vessel if he knew she was shacking up—even temporarily—with an ATF agent.

The good news was that her brother was improving. Before letting that agent drive her home, she’d insisted on visiting Jesse at the hospital. After giving him a quick update on the controlled delivery, she’d warned him about Pritchard. The bad news was that Jesse would have to remain in the hospital for a couple more days, which meant sticking around.

Living with Eric in his house. Alone.

She covered her face with her hands, not certain whether she was on the verge of laughing, crying, or both. There was one point of fact she could no longer ignore. It shouldn’t have been a problem, but with every minute she spent with him, the more her emotions complicated matters.

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