Red Thunder Reckoning by Sylvie Kurtz

Author:Sylvie Kurtz
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2002-10-06T05:00:00+00:00

WEARING A DISGUISE of jeans, T-shirt and a Rangers baseball cap, Tessa Bancroft huddled at a pay phone beside the 7–Eleven. Wind clubbed the booth’s glass with skeletal knocks, making it hard to hear over the noise.

This was all Ellen Paxton’s fault.

Without water, the judge shouldn’t have let her keep the horses. Fixing everything should have taken her at least a couple of days. She should have had to pass an inspection before she could turn the system back on.

The plan had been perfect. No one could connect Tessa with the “accident.” By all rights, the judge should have handed the horses back to her. They should be at the clinic by now.

But something had gone wrong. And they were still under Ellen Paxton’s meddling care.

“She’s endangering the project,” Tessa said. “The black is running in less than two weeks. I can’t have those five horses ruin my chances at winning.”

“Tessa, darlin’, you chose the wrong woman to mess with. She’s got more lives than a cat and you don’t stand a chance of taking anything she has her heart set on.”

“Don’t you understand how close we are?”

“We?” He had the gall to laugh. “Now, tell me again why I should help you win something that belongs to me in the first place.”

She gritted her teeth. “Because your horses are involved. Do you really want to see the Royal Legacy name associated with a scandal?” Her reflection in the booth’s glass showed a wicked smile. “Think of the shame. Like father, like son.”

He tutted. “But see, now they’re your horses. You stole them from me. You stole my research. You’ll have to take the blame as well as the glory.”

She’d always known he played dirty. Getting involved with him had been a calculated risk from the beginning. But the lure of winning, especially in Sheree MacQueen’s backyard, especially with the horses, had won over caution. Her blue-blood mother might have abandoned the bastard daughter she’d produced with her stable hand, but she could not deny her her rightful place in the winner’s circle. “I’ll bring you down with me.”

“Sorry, darlin’, but I’ve got enough problems of my own without takin’ on yours.”

“You have no choice.”

“I don’t take kindly to threats.”

Before Tessa could say anything more, he hung up. She slammed the receiver into its cradle. There was only one thing left to do.

Eliminate the problem.

Without Ellen, there was no reason for the horses to remain at the ranch. And the poor woman had already proven she had a propensity for accidents.

As for the connection to the research, she had the perfect solution.

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