RESCUE AT CARDWELL RANCH by B.J. DANIELS

Author:B.J. DANIELS [DANIELS, B.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ROMANCE - - SUSPENSE
Publisher: HARLEQUIN
Published: 2014-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Gus Thompson was lost. He’d driven around town tonight feeling as if his life were over. The last place he’d wanted to go was home to an empty house. He still couldn’t believe everything had changed in an instant.

He was thirty-eight years old. Not even in his prime. He would get another job. At least that’s what he told himself. And yet just the thought of approaching other Realtors had turned his knees to jelly. He’d never had to actually ask for a job before. His mother had seen that he had jobs from the time he was sixteen. Nepotism wasn’t something he’d ever thought about—until now.

If his mother were alive, she would have put in a call, got him on somewhere and he’d just show up for work. She’d had those kinds of connections. Even better, his mother would have made McKenzie pay. Her wrath would have rained down like a firestorm on M.K. Realty. She might even have put dear McKenzie out of business just for spite.

But his mother was gone and he was jobless and lost. And all because of McKenzie Sheldon.

He hadn’t known where he was driving until he found himself in her neighborhood. Parking down the block, he’d cut the engine, having no idea what he was going to do when she returned. Their “talk” earlier had left him cold. He needed more from her than a lukewarm recommendation. He was a great salesman, but if there were even a whiff of gossip that he was difficult to work with or that he hit on women in the office, it would kill the deal.

McKenzie had to hire him back. It was the only way.

As that thought settled over him, he’d seen her come up the street and pull into her drive. He’d started to get out, afraid how far he would have to go to get her to agree to rehire him, when an SUV had pulled up in her drive next to her vehicle.

Gus had ducked back into his car as he watched the Texas cowboy get out. McKenzie and the man headed for her front door. “What the—” They’d disappeared inside. A few minutes later, the cowboy had come back out and driven his vehicle into her garage.

It was the same cowboy he’d seen her with at Big Sky. The same man he’d followed to the Cardwell Ranch only to have neither appear again even after Gus had waited an hour.

Determined to wait this time, though, he settled in. The cowboy would leave before daylight, he told himself. He must have fallen asleep because something awakened him. He sat up to find it was the middle of the night. All the lights were off inside the condo—just like the other condos on the block.

Angry and frustrated and feeling even worse, he was about to leave when he noticed something odd. A man had been sitting in an old panel van up the street. Gus watched him get out and head into the trees next to McKenzie’s condo.

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