Devil's Deal by Terri Lynn Coop

Author:Terri Lynn Coop [Coop, Terri Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: North Main Media
Published: 2014-09-30T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 53

“I met Wendy a couple of years ago at a school thing here in Austin. We hit it off.”

Of course her name is fucking Wendy.

It took a lot to keep my face composed. It went without saying she was Midwestern adorable. Probably a damn blonde. I didn’t say anything and he continued.

“It was a whirlwind thing that dragged me along. She was fascinated with the FBI, always introduced me as her ‘secret agent man.’ Before I knew it, we were married and living in Dallas. She was on my case every day about going back to Quantico. Always going on and on about how I needed to live up to my talents and see to our future. It was like the rotten summer before Corey was born. Let’s just say the honeymoon was very short.”

Got what you paid for, didn’t you?

I gestured for him to keep going. Better to rip the bandage off all at once.

“What did I know? My folks have been together for forty-five years. You got married and you were stuck with it. I spent as much time as I could at the office and in the field. I volunteered for every bullshit buy-and-bust. Well, my last assignment ended about four weeks ago. When I made it home, she dropped the bomb on me. She was pregnant. Just a couple of months, but it was confirmed.”

Pregnant.

Afraid of what I’d say, I jumped up and repeated Ethan’s circuit around the room and out the front door. I couldn’t decide if I was angry, jealous, or just disgusted with myself for the feelings I’d allowed to develop for this man. I felt his hands crawling over me from the night at my apartment and wanted another bath.

A neglected wife he’s fighting with and a kid on the way. You sure know how to pick them.

I’d made it two blocks before it came to me that it was full dark in a part of Austin you didn’t walk in unless you had business there. I also realized I had no place to go. I was four hours from home, if a rattletrap camper counted as home, and had made a deal with the devil. If I broke it, Dad was screwed and so was I. There was no choice, I had to go back, share a motel room and pretend I was hooked up with a guy ready to cheat on his pregnant wife.

A long blat from a car horn also reminded me I was out in the red-light district in flip flops and silk boxer shorts.

This is beyond stupid.

I was ready to return to the motel and deal with this mess when a van pulled across the alley in front of me.

“Hey sweetheart, are you looking for a date?” The voice from inside the dark cab was silky and nasty, like a glistening slug trail.

The door latch clicked and I backed up, ready to run in the stupidest shoes ever invented when an arm clamped around my shoulders.

“The lady is busy.

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