Desert Bound (Cambio Springs Mysteries Book 2) by Elizabeth Hunter

Author:Elizabeth Hunter
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Paranormal Romance
Publisher: E. Hunter
Published: 2014-10-13T23:00:00+00:00

They drove out to the Di Stefanos’ house in Alex’s truck, and the dusty, scratched Ford looked just as out of place in the luxurious gated community as it had on the Las Vegas strip. He pulled in behind Cam’s Jaguar and walked around to help Ted out of the cab. He’d asked Cam the night before if he should bring her or if it was just going to cause another fight. Cam had laughed and said to bring her.

Alex didn’t know if that was because Cam and his dad wanted to see Ted, or if Cam just thought Alex and Ted’s fights were fun to watch.

“So we’re meeting his dad. That’s all you got out of him?”

“That was an hour-long negotiation, Ted. Cam doesn’t like crossing wires.”

“Crossing wires?”

“He has family life and business life. And they don’t often meet.”

She nodded and took his hand. “And you’re business life.”

“And a little bit family life, since I’ve known him a long time.”

“I can see the conflict.”

“His dad’s very old school, so if he asks to speak to me alone—”

“I got it.” As they made their way up the walkway, she turned and tugged on his collar. “I won’t go off half-cocked.”

He smiled. “It’s not that you’re a woman; it’s that you’re sort of like a cop.”

She laughed and started walking again. “Me? A cop?”

“In their minds? Yeah.”

By the time they reached the front door, it was already opening, and Cam stood there, tan and smiling in a golf shirt with a drink in his hand.

“Alex. Ted. Just in time for drinks.”

“Hey, Cam.” Putting his hand on the small of Ted’s back, Alex ushered her into the house. He saw her chest rise as she took a deep breath. Testing the scent of the room. Scanning for threats. Her sense of smell in human skin had always been better than his. She had to focus her attention, but when she did, it was almost as good as her natural form.

The corner of his mouth turned up as Cam shut the door. Alex bent to tuck a curl of her hair behind an ear and whisper, “Anything I should know?”

She smiled at him and put her mouth to his ear, giving the impression to anyone else that they were flirting. “Five men, two women by scent. But the air-conditioning is blasting, so that’s messing me up.”

“Got it.” Alex was guessing that the two women were Cam’s mom and younger sister. If Constance and Yvette were there, Alex and Ted had nothing to worry about. Frank and Cam were both intensely, almost obsessively, protective of the women in their family. Most likely because Frank’s sister, according to Jolene’s research, had been murdered at sixteen by a business rival of Cam’s grandfather.

They stopped in a huge living room with a view of the golf course behind Frank and Yvette’s house. Massive double-pane plate glass windows looked over the ninth green, and in the distance, Alex saw a group teeing off at the tenth. He felt a moment of longing for his clubs before he focused on the people sitting in the room.

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