Hunting the Colton Fugitive by Colleen Thompson

Author:Colleen Thompson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-03-04T19:37:20+00:00

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Gliding through the dark streets, Ace clenched his jaw to keep from shouting in frustration. To keep from arguing that he damned well wasn’t going to accept that, now that he’d finally found a woman who made him want to play for keeps, the two of them had zero chance of ending up together. As he struggled to come up with alternatives that wouldn’t involve abandoning the family he both needed and wanted to do right by, his thoughts chased themselves in endless circles, like a dog running after its tail.

“Ace,” Sierra was telling him, her voice seeming to come from a great distance. “Ace!”

“What?” he ground out.

“Slow down, will you? You just blew through that stop sign. And getting the two of us or someone else killed isn’t going to fix a thing.”

“You’re right,” he conceded as he eased off the accelerator. “I’m sorry if I scared you. I just—I’d fight a war to save you. Don’t you know that?”

“You’re already fighting a war of your own on more than one front right now,” she reminded him, “so you’re going to have to trust me to handle my own battles.”

He felt torn in two, thinking of failing her when she most needed him, whether or not she was willing to admit it. “Do you even have a weapon? Or money enough to finance an extended stay away from home?”

“I’ll pick up something for self-defense, and I’ve got the money from Selina. Most of it’s in the bank, of course, but I’ll make an ATM withdrawal to get me started.”

“That’s not going to be enough. Not for—”

“I’m used to living by my wits,” she insisted.

“It’s the thought of your dying by them that scares the hell out of me,” he said. “So at least let me help you, will you? Make sure you leave Mustang Valley armed and with plenty of cold, hard cash in hand. I have a good amount, you know, buried in a cache not far from the bunker.”

“You do?” Sierra shook her head. “Why on earth didn’t you say so earlier, when Ice Veins’s goons were threatening to blow my leg off over that missed payment?”

“I thought about it,” he said as the lights of Mustang Valley General Hospital came into view. “But at first, I didn’t trust you—no offense.”

“None taken,” she said, “being as I figured you for a wannabe murderer yourself. An incredibly hot one, as it turned out, but still.”

“And after those thugs showed up—and Ice Veins himself, later—I figured if I mentioned I have cash, rather using my accounts to buy us some more time until the police arrived, they’d march us at gunpoint to get it and then leave two dead bodies where the money used to be.”

She exhaled noisily. “You might’ve been raised in privileged surroundings, but I’ll give you this. You’re a pretty quick study when it comes to dealing with the criminal element.”

As they pulled into the parking lot, he said, “So then the plan is

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