Deadly Secrets, Loving Lies by Cynthia Cooke

Author:Cynthia Cooke [Cooke, Cynthia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: family secrets, Romantic Suspense, action-adventure, Contemporary, Romance, fast-paced suspense, hero protector
Publisher: Deadly Secrets, Loving Lies by Cynthia Cooke
Published: 2012-05-12T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

As Genie lay on the bed waiting for her heartbeat to slow and her body temperature to cool, a sound came from out back. Just a slight crunch of gravel.

“Shit,” she whispered and jumped out of bed. Kyle was right behind her. She ran to the front room where she’d left her clothes and her gun. Stupid. She knew better than to leave herself so exposed and vulnerable. And so did Kyle. She slipped on her panties and grabbed Kyle’s shirt, buttoning it while she headed for the kitchen and the back door. Kyle stepped into his pants and gestured to her as he eased out the front door. He was going to circle around the back of the house.

She was just buttoning the last button on the shirt when the back doorknob turned. With two quick steps forward, she slipped behind the door just as it started opening.

“Hold it right there,” she said, pointing her gun at the back of the man who’d just stepped through the door.

He stopped, and without turning held up his hands. A long stringer of fish dangled from his outstretched fingers. She’d know that frame, those wide, rounding shoulders, and that growing middle anywhere.

“Oh my God, Dad!” Genie launched herself at her dad, plowing into him and almost knocking him over. “Where the heck have you been?”

“Genie! It’s okay. I’m all right.” A huge smile filled his face as one arm—the one not holding the fish—wrapped around her shoulders and patted her back.

After a minute, she stepped away, set down her gun and flipped on the light. Then she looked at him. Really looked at him. At the fishing cap plastering down his wiry grey hair, the two-day-old stubble and the tired lines pulling at his eyes.

“I’ve been so worried.”

“Me, too,” he said. “About you. What’s important is that we’re both okay. I knew you’d find me. Now how about some trout for dinner?”

Before she could answer, Kyle stepped in through the back door. The smile immediately dropped from her father’s face and tension rose through the room like a thick vaporous cloud.

“It’s all right, Dad,” Genie said quickly. “Kyle rescued me from Emerich’s men in the desert. He’s been helping me.”

Her dad’s hard gaze slid down her bare legs beneath Kyle’s shirt then over to Kyle’s bare chest. He grunted then pushed past her toward the sink, turned on the water and dropped the fish into the basin.

“If you don’t mind explaining what’s been going on, sir?” Kyle said, shutting and locking the door behind him. “We’ve had one hell of a day.”

“I don’t have anything to say,” her dad said without turning around or taking his attention off his catch.

“We’re only here to help,” Kyle reiterated. He leaned back against the wall, using the casual stance Genie recognized from when he wanted to make a suspect or informant feel at ease. He needn’t have bothered. Her father wasn’t giving him so much as a glance.

“Cameron send you?” Her dad asked.

“In a manner of speaking.

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