Down & Dirty_Romantic Suspense Series by AJ Nuest

Author:AJ Nuest [Nuest, AJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mystical Press
Published: 2017-11-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

“Fifty meters.” Xander’s voice echoed through the wireless com link Tanner had plugged in her ear, and she quickly eased up on the gas and down-shifted into first. “Entrance should be coming up on your right.”

Tapping the side of her helmet, she activated the visor’s night vision display. The steady wall of falling snow took on a green cast, and she killed the single headlight on the front of her bike.

There. Just ahead, a curving break in the trees was offset by a wide wooden sign announcing the main drive into the preserve.

“Got it.” Checking over her shoulder for oncoming traffic, she leaned into the turn and gunned the engine. The bottom of her boot skimmed the ice-slicked gravel as she spun out the back tire in a sharp one-eighty. Cutting the engine, she lifted her foot and coasted into the downy white powder that blanketed the woods.

Perfect. Her front tire squished to a stop, and she swung her leg over the seat. The fat flakes dusting the air couldn’t hit the ground fast enough, as far as she was concerned. She pushed aside the bottom branches of a wayward pine and a thick layer of white fluff sheeted past her gloves and the arms of her leather jacket. Checking left then right, she ducked inside and backed her Valkyrie toward the sturdy trunk.

Even though the late January snowstorm had made the ride north a little trickier than she would’ve liked, the natural camouflage would go a long way toward covering her tracks. And hopefully mask her movements enough, she could get a direct line of sight on Ben’s location without setting off any alarms.

Propping the seat against the rough bark, she flipped open a side saddle bag and yanked out the cumbersome case Xander had offered her before she’d peeled an inch of rubber off the floor of the manor’s lower level garage.

Until she could uncover what Ben was doing here, her smartest move would be to navigate the area like a ghost. The hour-long ride had given her plenty of time to revisit the past few days from a clearer perspective, and of all the decisions she’d made, there was one that took precedence over everything else.

Ben’s safety came first. And that included not only his physical wellbeing, but doing whatever she could to protect his career, as well.

He’d had his reasons for coming here, and given that electro-shock therapy of seeing how much a young Casper Addison looked like Trey, Tanner had no doubts they were damn good reasons at that. But without speaking to him first, there was no way she could know for sure whether or not he’d gone off the grid on purpose.

If he was intentionally ignoring his phone, she had to at least consider he might be stuck so deep inside a tricky situation he simply had no other choice. For her to follow that up by busting onto the scene with an entire task force of black and whites at her back, sirens wailing and lights flashing, would’ve only blown his cover and set him up to fail.

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