Lifetime Risk by Megan Matthews

Author:Megan Matthews
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Megan Matthews

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The noise gets louder and louder until it sounds like the motorcycles stop right on the other side of Ridge’s house. I put the casserole down on the wooden picnic table in the middle of the yard, and Nate stands beside me holding Emma to his chest. The fact he’s tense doesn’t go unnoticed and doesn’t make me feel better about the racket happening at the front of the house.

The engines cut off in unison and I hear voices.

From the right corner of Ridge’s house walk a large group of men — oversized and wearing more leather than they should in the heat of Pelican Bay summer. They stop at the edge of the yard.

One man in particular with a determined look stands with his arms crossed. His eyes drag through the crowd and stop at Anessa when he nods his head once in her direction. She nods back and then her head tips up, looking at Bennett, who stands by her side with a scowl written across his features.

“I don’t remember inviting you,” Ridge says, stepping up to the front of his crowd.

From the middle of the yard where Nate and I stand, the scene reminds me of one from Grease with the two sides standing off against each other. Except this time one side is nicely dressed in their matching black polo shirts and dark colored jeans and the other with hair slicked back wearing leather and looking as a rugged as possible. I bet at least one of them has a switchblade.

We can only hope it doesn’t end the same as in the movie version.

“I don’t remember inviting one of your guys to sit outside my shop all week,” the clear leader of the pack of motorcyclists says across the yard currently considered as no-man’s-land. “You’d think for a security man with such a celebrity status you wouldn’t be so obvious.”

Ridge laughs but it’s forced. “If I didn’t want you to know, Dom, you wouldn’t. Nate here has so much specialized training you wouldn’t see or hear him coming.”

I inch my head back and stare at Nate, silently asking him a hundred questions. Ones he’s never answered before. He doesn’t this time either. His head tilts down, and he smiles in my direction before giving his attention back to the standoff happening in front of us.

“What I have is some guy named Antonio in Vegas asking me where his storage unit full of drugs is. You know anything about that?”

I freeze. My heart is the only thing moving in my body. Nate wraps his arm around me and hugs me closer, squeezing me a small amount, but it doesn’t do enough to release my nerves.

“I don’t know. We don’t get ourselves mixed up in those things. Maybe you should hang out with a better circle of friends.” Ridge takes one step closer.

It’s matched with a step from the other guy, the space between them decreasing with each movement.

“I heard it’s not only drugs you’re keeping in the You Store It outside of town.

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