Rangers: Silver-Star Seductions: A Two-Book Box Set by Ciana Stone

Author:Ciana Stone
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Published: 2015-05-26T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Two

Week-old pizza left on the counter looked better than she felt when she parked her car in her designated space. Cia twisted the rearview mirror and grimaced at herself. Joe would have probably remarked that she couldn’t expect to drink herself stupid and look good the next day. Thank God he hadn’t hitched a ride with her this morning.

She’d barely taken a sip of the scalding hot, thick-as-syrup brew that passed for coffee before her superior was standing in front of her desk, giving her an assignment. Not one in D.C., but in a small town a couple of hours east of El Paso, Texas.

So less than fifteen minutes after arriving at work, she was on her way back home to pack. Her hangover had vanished. That was no surprise. The moment she’d been assigned the case, energy had burst inside her. That’s the way it always was.

This case was definitely intriguing, and if the initial assessment was correct, could be linked to a series of murders that had occurred across the country the last five years. She wouldn’t know for sure until she got there, but she was hopeful. She and every other member of state and federal law enforcement would love to nail the sick bastard that had killed over two dozen women in the last five years.

More importantly to her, this could be another chance to stop something far worse than a mere serial killer, if the case demonstrated characteristics only she would recognize.

It took her less than twenty minutes from the time she walked in her front door to be loading her things into the backseat of her car. She opened the driver’s door and slid in.

“No speedin’ this time.”

Cia blew out her breath and looked at Joe, all buckled up in the passenger’s seat, a bottle of Mountain Dew secured between his legs and a bag of Cheetos open and already leaving orange crumbs everywhere.

“Did I invite you?”

“Do you ever?”

“Joe.” The warning tone of her voice had been known to give pause to more than one man.

Not so with Joe. He smiled, lifted the Mountain Dew for a long swig, belched and smiled. “Well, what’re you waitin’ on? We got us a case to solve.”

This time the breath she blew out was flavored with several colorful expletives. Joe clucked his tongue and wagged his finger at her. “That kinda talk leads straight to hell, Gracie.”

Cia ignored the comment. The way she saw it, she already had an engraved invitation to hell. But before she got there, she was going to take down as many of the scumbags as possible. Including the one that had left a woman mutilated and dead in Bumfuck, Texas.

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