Lone Star Knight by Cindy Gerard

Author:Cindy Gerard
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Silhouette Desire
Published: 2001-05-10T22:00:00+00:00

Six

An hour later, the four of them, Pamela and Aaron, Matt and Helena, were on the road to town. The trip into Royal, for all the catastrophic potential, went as smoothly as silk. Since the press was still halfway convinced that Helena was with the Hunts, they hadn’t been looking for her in Aaron’s big black luxury car. With Pamela at her side for support, Helena was now safely tucked away at the clinic for a series of exams and X rays. After that she’d have physical therapy that would keep her there for the better part of two hours.

Matt checked his watch as Aaron drove down the main street toward the Cattleman’s Club, which was located on the outskirts of town.

“We’ve got a few minutes. Let’s stop at the diner—see if we can pick up on any chatter about Helena or the plane crash.”

Aaron shrugged. “Worth a try. Besides, it’s been a long time since I’ve had one of Manny Hernandez’s pecan rolls.”

“Well, there is that,” Matt said with a grin as Aaron pulled the black sedan into a parking place outside the Royal Diner.

Half an hour later, they walked into the ultra-masculine, ultra-luxurious interior of the Texas Cattleman’s Club. Matt looked around the room and returned nodding hellos to the four men seated at a round table in the corner of the room. Hank Langley, the great-grandson of Tex Langley, the club’s founder, Forrest Cunningham, Sterling Churchill, and Greg Hunt’s brother, Blake, returned to a good-natured, but heated, card game.

When Matt spotted Dakota Lewis at the far end of the polished oak bar, he and Aaron walked toward him.

Dakota jerked his head toward an intricately carved walnut door at the end of the hall after the three men exchanged handshakes. “Ben and Justin are already in the back room.”

Justin was seated at the central table. He looked up from his coffee when the three of them entered the ornately appointed private meeting room. “Afternoon, gentlemen.”

Matt nodded to Justin and clasped a hand to Sheikh Ben Rassad’s shoulder in greeting then reached for a bone-china cup with the club’s crest embossed in gold. He drew coffee from the silver urn that was set in the middle of the table, took a sip.

“Now this,” he said pointedly to Justin, “is coffee.”

Justin smirked. “You’re a lightweight, Walker.”

Taking no offense at Justin’s grinning jab, Matt scanned the faces around the room. “Let’s get down to business, shall we?”

Dakota, standing with an elbow propped on the marble mantel, made a sound of disbelief. “What? No horse talk?”

Matt exchanged a smile with Ben, who Matt had come to know and like since he’d bought an adjacent ranch and joined the club. “Maybe later. Anybody got anything for show-and-tell today?”

“Suppose you start with Helena,” Justin suggested. “How is she? More specifically, where is she?”

“She’s one tough lady, that’s how she is—or so she would have everyone think,” Matt added and thought about the apprehension on her face when he’d left her at the clinic with Pamela.

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