High Desert Hideaway by Jenna Night

Author:Jenna Night
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

TEN

Nate’s apartment building was a hacienda-style structure located one street over from what passed for the city center of Painted Rock. The town had started out as a stagecoach relay station and expanded from there, but it still kept its frontier feel after all these years. Nate liked the town well enough, but it didn’t feel like home.

He scanned the living room of his apartment, trying to imagine how it looked to Lily. Plain furniture, bare walls, none of the small extras that make a room feel cozy. She probably thought he spent the least amount of time possible here and she’d be right.

He shook his head. Why did he even care what she thought about his place? He was trying to keep her alive. He wasn’t dating her. And flying off the handle like he had on the highway after the attack, determined to hunt down the man who’d dared try to hurt Lily, wasn’t like Nate at all. He prided himself on keeping a level head. Clearly he needed to take a step back from her, emotionally, and remind himself she was simply an old acquaintance he was helping for the sake of an old friend.

And yet he still couldn’t resist watching for her reaction to what she saw in his home. What she might see in him.

He stole a glance at her as she scanned the books on his bookcase. Fiction, mostly. Lots of Westerns. If work or life was getting to Nate, he could lose himself better in reading than he ever could in a movie or TV. And it helped still his mind on those nights when he couldn’t fall asleep.

Rios was on Nate’s landline, updating Sheriff Wolfsinger and getting departmental approval to buy the timers for the lights. The sheriff was well aware of the search for the man, or possibly men, who’d shot at Lily and Nate today, but so far there was no new information.

“I’m heading to the store,” Rios said after she got off the phone. She gestured to Bubba and he stood up from his position near a water bowl. “I’ll bring back the timers and hook them up.”

“Elijah should be by here to pick us up in a few minutes,” Nate said, glancing at the screen on his phone. He’d received a text a short time ago. He looked up at Rios. “We’ll be gone before you’re back. Thanks for your help.”

“No problem.” Rios turned to Lily. “We’ll get these guys. Don’t let yourself get discouraged.”

“I won’t.”

“You hungry?” Nate asked Lily after Rios left.

“Kinda.”

He walked into the kitchen. “This is my first time back here since I left for Phoenix,” he called out to her in the living room. “I don’t think I have much here except for snack food.”

“That’s fine.” She walked toward the serving bar between the living room and kitchen. He saw her limping before she pulled back one of the wooden bar stools and sat down with a grimace.

“Your leg hurts,” he said.

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