Dead Ringer by B.J. Daniels

Author:B.J. Daniels
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Wade was surprised to see Abby’s car gone when he drove out to the house. Had she come out to get it? Or had that bastard Ledger McGraw retrieved it for her?

He pulled up in front of the house, threw the car into Park and sat just staring at where her car had been. He should go out to the McGraw ranch and drag Abby out by her hair. Frustration had him shaking all over. He couldn’t do that any more than he could get her back. His dad was right. He’d have to bide his time if he wanted any satisfaction. Look what the woman had done to him. He wouldn’t be able to hold his head up in this town ever again.

He turned off the engine and started to get out when he remembered the restraining order. He couldn’t come any closer than fifty feet? Seriously, in a town the size of Whitehorse with only one grocery store, one post office, one damned theater?

Grabbing up the paperwork, he tore it into a hundred pieces and threw it in the air like confetti. He felt a little better.

His cell phone rang. For just an instant, he thought it might be Abby calling to say she’d changed her mind. All the other times they’d had problems she’d come back.

But it was only his father calling. He swore and picked up. “What?”

“I see your mood hasn’t improved.”

“Her car is gone. You think she came out and picked it up?”

“The sheriff sent two deputies out to bring it back to the office, where Ledger McGraw picked it up with one of his ranch hands.”

Wade let out a string of curses. “I want to get out of this damned town.”

“Oh, come on, don’t you want a little retribution first? Have you forgotten? We have an ace in the hole, remember? We’re in the catbird seat, son. Soon we will be calling the shots.”

When his father had come to him with his plan, he’d thought the old man had lost his mind.

“You’re going to get us both sent to prison. This can’t possibly work.”

His father had winked at him. “These years as a deputy, I’ve made a few...friends. Leave it to me. We can pull this off.”

Wade had been skeptical at best. But to his amazement, the plan seemed to actually be working.

“So knock off the ‘poor me’ routine,” Huck said. “Soon you will have the money to go anywhere you want. And we’ll have gotten some retribution along the way.”

* * *

“I HAVE GOOD NEWS,” Travers said when he saw Vance.

He could use some good news. “How is that?”

“I’m calling a press conference tomorrow to introduce you to the world and announce that my son has been found.”

This was not what he’d consider good news. Especially when Abby Pierce was upstairs, no doubt racking her brain to remember where she’d last seen him. “Do we have to?”

Travers put a hand on his shoulder. Vance tried not to flinch. He’d known all of this would feel.

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