GI Cowboy by Fossen Delores

Author:Fossen, Delores [Fossen, Delores]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: suspense
Publisher: Harlequin Intrigue
Published: 2011-04-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Bailey couldn’t get the images out of her head. The man dressed all in black hiding next to the tree. The bullets he’d fired into Parker’s house.

The gun he had left in the yard.

Even now with her eyes closed, Bailey could see it. Parker had called it an assault weapon rigged with a silencer, and it had been mounted on a pedestal, aimed right at the house. And according to Parker, the gunman had used a remote control to fire it. Three times.

Straight into Parker’s house.

Sheriff Hale and Parker had agreed that the gun hadn’t been aimed in such a way for the bullets to hit anyone inside. Just to scare them and allow time for someone like Chester Herman to break in and scare them some more.

Or rather scare her.

It had worked. She was scared, not just for herself but for Parker and especially Zach. Just because the bullets hadn’t been aimed to kill them, it didn’t mean the gunman couldn’t have adjusted the gun to fire into another part of the house where Parker, Zach and she were.

Plus, the man had then tried to break into Zach’s room. Did that mean he knew she was there?

Maybe.

The blinds were open. He could have seen her when she ran inside Zach’s room. Bailey had done that to try to protect the boy, but she’d ended up putting him in immediate danger just by getting near him.

Knowing that she wouldn’t fall back asleep, Bailey opened her eyes and glanced around the unfamiliar room. It was morning, already past eight, and she wasn’t just in Parker’s room, she was in his bed. She gave a hollow smile at the invitation he’d issued the night before.

Come to my bed tonight.

Well, she had ended up doing that, all right, after midnight when the sheriff and his deputies were certain that Chester Herman or whomever it was that had set up that gun was long gone.

But Parker hadn’t been in his bed when she’d climbed into it, so exhausted that she hadn’t even bothered to change her clothes.

Parker had eventually joined her in his bedroom after locking down everything in the house that he could lock and after arming the security system. Only then had Bailey managed to get some sleep.

She looked at Parker now. He was napping on a padded weight bench that looked absurdly small beneath his body.

Zach was on the floor asleep on an air mattress. Next to the bed were a treadmill and a set of weights that went with the bench. The exercise equipment explained how Parker managed to keep all those muscles toned and in perfect shape.

Her gaze went to Parker again, and she wasn’t surprised to see him staring at her. Heck, it was possible he hadn’t even slept at all, that the closed eyes she’d seen earlier was a ruse to make her think he was getting some rest.

Bailey eased off the bed, grabbed her phone from the nightstand and motioned for him to go into the hall.

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