Falling for the Cougar by Terry Spear

Author:Terry Spear [Spear, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-63311-053-3
Publisher: Terry Spear

Nicole watched as Scott hurried back to what was left of her car. Her knight-in-shining-armor. And then her thoughts turned to Jackie. How could she have been involved with the killers? Now Nicole knew Jackie had never had any intention of vacationing with her. Or maybe she did to begin with. Had she been bribed to steal the car? They had to hide the evidence of Nicole running over the man, just like Scott said. But why did Jackie say she had a family emergency? To stay out of the killer’s way when they came for Nicole? Why hadn’t they just broken into Nicole’s apartment and gotten Bambi, if that’s what they wanted?

Maybe they didn’t know venison was Bambi.

And too, they might have figured Nicole knew something. That her father had told her, or even that Boris had given her a clue about the whole sorted mess. They wanted to get rid of her and now Scott too.

Scott walked back to the car with an armload of CDs. After depositing them in the back seat, he took her hand. “Are you all right?”

“I think we might stop at a hotel along the way.”

His eyes widened.

“I’m not sure we should go straight back into the rattlers’ nest.”

“Sure. We can do that. Just a few more things I need to grab out of your car, then the tow-truck driver needs for you to sign a release form.”

He leaned over and brushed her lips, not pressuring this time, just reassuring. They felt nice and warm against hers and she wanted the feeling to last longer. Instead, he hastened back to her car, and made two more trips before she signed the release. Afterward, they were on their way again.

Detouring, he drove another hour and a half, and arrived at the historic town of Salado where early in the nineteenth century, cattle were driven through the main street, at one time part of the Chisholm Trail route. Nicole took a deep breath as she studied several of the gift shops, their windows decorated with the latest fashions or unusual garden ornaments and other kinds of unique trinkets. “How did you know this was one of my favorite places to shop?”

He smiled. “Male intuition.”

Her father never had any intuition. She shook her head at Scott.

His smile broadened. “My mother used to drag us down here to shop when we lived in Hillsboro for a time. They have some nice restaurants and several bed and breakfasts here. I think it would be safer than a hotel.”

He drove into the gravel parking lot of a Greek-Revival two-story mansion painted in sunflower yellow. Windows across the front of the inn were trimmed with forest green shutters. A white picket fence encircled the grounds including the inn and several smaller cottages and cabins. Towering old live oaks, elms, and persimmon trees shaded the grassy lawn and the entire estate backed up against the Salado Creek.

After parking, he escorted Nicole into the mansion. “We don’t have any reservations,” he said

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