Outlaw Tiger by Terry Bolryder

Author:Terry Bolryder [Bolryder, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-13T18:30:00+00:00

15

The next day found Mel and Dallas in the hotel parking lot, moving things in and out of her news van.

If there was another basilisk sighting, she would need to be ready, and since she was staying in Dallas’s trailer, that meant having as much equipment on hand as possible.

Dallas’s trailer.

She stopped for a second, blissfully reminiscing about the night she’d had with him. He had finally opened up to her, told her about his family, his past, and it had felt so good, so right being there with him.

And it hadn’t hurt that the sex afterward had been just as mind-blowing as ever.

Realizing she was blushing, she shook her head and busied herself, trying to figure out what she would need and what she could leave. A spare high-quality camera would be nice, but she probably wouldn’t need to lug around any of the high-tech ones.

Just as she was pulling one of the black bags from the back of the van, she saw Trent come out of the hotel doors and approach her, hands deep in khaki pockets.

“I need to talk to you. In my room,” he said, wobbling a bit as he stepped down from the curb.

Is he drunk?

She nodded slowly. “Okay…”

But Trent didn’t wait for her. Instead, he stepped back up and headed into the hotel just as Dallas came around the corner holding a cardboard box.

He cocked an eyebrow as if asking if she wanted him to come along, but she shook her head. “It’s just Trent. I can handle it.”

Dallas narrowed his eyes slightly but nodded and shrugged and took the camera bag from her, slinging it over his shoulder as Mel turned and headed for the hotel doors.

What on earth could Trent want to talk about?

He’d been incredibly flaky this trip, barely reaching out except for yesterday. Since then, she hadn’t been able to get ahold of him.

When she got to his room, the door was open, so she stepped in, wrinkling her nose as she did. The place was a mess, clothes and garbage littered the floor, and everything reeked of beer and days-old pizza.

Between her room getting trashed and this, there was no way that the company was going to handle the bill.

Wonderful.

Trent was sitting on the floor against the couch, beer can in hand. He looked up when she came in.

“I got a call from the main office,” he said, downing the rest of the can and throwing it aside. “They said that we’re to head back early. Tonight.”

“What?” Mel asked, aghast. “But we’re nearly there. And it hasn’t even been a week yet.”

“Either way, I’m taking the van and heading back.”

She shook her head. “How can you just give up on this? I always knew you weren’t excited about this like I was, but I never thought you were so negligent as to back out in the middle of a story.”

“Wasn’t my call,” he replied, shrugging as he swayed to the side, slightly intoxicated. “These orders came from the top.”

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