Hotter than Texas (Pecan Creek) by Leonard Tina

Author:Leonard, Tina [Leonard, Tina]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-03-19T00:00:00+00:00

That was the last thing Jake wanted to happen. He wanted Sugar right here, in his world. “There’s some theory that you ran off your stepfather. Or that something happened to him.”

Sugar’s eyes narrowed. Jake’s chest tightened as Sugar didn’t deny it.

“And that your sister was dishonestly discharged from the military,” Jake finished on a rush of misery. “Something about a problem with an officer. That’s the whole graveyard the PI dug up.”

Sugar looked at him for a long moment.

Then she got off him, slipped into the water and splashed up on the bank.

“Sugar!”

She whistled for Paris, who jumped up with her bone and dove into the canoe. Sugar shoved off hard—she was a lot stronger than he’d given her credit for—and before he could get himself off the raft and up the bank, she was paddling smoothly through the water.

Jake shook his head. “I saw that coming,” he muttered. “I can’t say the odds on that weren’t greatly stacked against me.”

He pulled the rafts in, then sank onto his chair and opened a beer.

Wish I’d brought a case. I need divine intervention from the goddess of hops.

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