RENEGADE GUARDIAN by DELORES FOSSEN

Author:DELORES FOSSEN [FOSSEN, DELORES]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ROMANCE - - SUSPENSE
Publisher: HARLEQUIN
Published: 2013-10-05T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

It took several heart-slamming moments before Maya could see the man who’d caused Slade and Declan to go on full alert. And even after seeing him she had no idea who he was until Slade mumbled his name like profanity.

Randall Martin.

Declan took out his phone and pressed some buttons. “We just got a visitor. How the heck did he get in, and was he armed when he went through the metal detector?”

She couldn’t hear the answer, but Declan looked at Slade, shook his head and put his phone away. “The dispatcher’s new, and when Randall said he was a visitor, she processed him through. He didn’t set off the alarms, but he could have some kind of nonmetal weapon on him.”

“I don’t. I carry a gun, usually concealed, and yes, I have a permit to do that,” Randall volunteered. “But I left it in my car. Didn’t figure I should give you boys any more reason for concern.”

“We’ve been looking for you,” Slade said. His voice was all lawman, and there was zero trace of the heat that had been there just seconds earlier.

“I heard.” Randall walked closer, and she got a better look at him. Late thirties, pasty white skin and hair that seemed way too black to be natural. He wore an expensive-looking linen suit, not at all what she’d expected from the owner of a bowling alley. Judging from the clothes, the business was very successful.

“I also heard that you plan to accuse me of trying to kill you,” Randall added. He was a big man, even bigger than Slade, and he met their stony glare with one of his own. “I didn’t.” He reached in his pocket, causing both Declan and Slade to draw their guns.

Randall rolled his eyes in a dramatic fashion. “It’s a copy of the surveillance footage from the parking lot of the bowling alley.” He pulled out a disk and offered it to Slade.

Slade took it, but he didn’t reholster his gun as Declan did.

“When you watch the footage,” Randall went on, “you’ll see that I was telling the truth about someone stealing my SUV. It’s not my primary vehicle. I use it mainly for employees to do pick-ups and deliveries, so I didn’t notice it missing right away.”

Declan and Slade exchanged glances before Slade looked back at her. “Stay behind me.”

She had no intention of facing this man head-on, not with Evan in her arms. They went up the hall to an office, Slade staying between Randall and her, but that didn’t stop the man from peering around Slade to look first at her.

Then at Evan.

“Glad he’s safe,” Randall told her. “I’ll bet this has you rattled. Sorry about that, but I didn’t have anything to do with it.”

Maya wasn’t certain she believed him. Judging from Slade’s body language, neither did he.

Declan put the disk into a laptop on the desk in the office, and it didn’t take long before the images appeared on the screen. A dimly lit parking lot at night with only two vehicles—a BMW and the green SUV.

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