Ruthless (Crescent Cove: Viper Force Book 2) by Marlie May

Author:Marlie May [May, Marlie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Crescent Cove Romantic Suspense, Crescent Cove: Viper Force, Crescent Cove Maine, Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Law Enforcement, Romantic Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense, Mystery & Intrigue, Violence & Crime Story, Protection & Safety, Action & Adventure, Dangerous & Deadly, Forever Love, Bachelor, Single Woman, Hearts Desire, Life-Changes, Second Chance Reunion, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Romantic Schemes, Beautiful & Feisty, Love-Family & Forever, Suspenseful Fiction, Military Service, Ex-Navy Service, Medical Doctor / Physician DO, Brother Viper Force Owner
Publisher: Hummingbird Press
Published: 2019-07-12T04:00:00+00:00

13

Mia

If a car wasn’t trailing us, I would’ve sat back in the Jeep and relaxed. Chatted with Eli while savoring the scenic ride northwest to Ashford.

He’d left the top up this time to keep a red—no, make that a strawberry blonde—rat’s nest from forming on my head. Respectful on his part since he knew how important it was for me to make a good impression.

Gnawing on my lower lip, I turned in my seat and squinted through the back window. My unease did not drop just because the car was a maroon Toyota, not a white Chevy sedan. “Who can it be? We know it’s not him.” Him, meaning Russell.

“Nope.”

The sheriff had called before we left and told us my ex was still locked up securely in jail. Unless he’d escaped within the last hour, someone else had been riding our rear bumper all the way from Crescent Cove.

As for the white Chevy, they’d run the license plate number Eli gave them and discovered it had been reported stolen a few days prior. The police located the vehicle last evening, abandoned on a dirt road about three miles from Christmastown. They were running prints but couldn’t say if their tests would yield any results.

Two leads gone like fog burning off in the early morning sunshine.

Actually, Eli was not convinced someone was following us. Something about no bugs or his vehicle being clean, whatever that meant.

I was convinced, though I was leaving the losing-the-tail task to him. Or Jax, whose SUV followed the Toyota.

Rubbing the wound on my arm I’d received in Mexico—it itched like a bugger—I slumped back in my seat and stared out the window at the dense forest we passed. This part of Maine was quite rural, with only a smattering of houses centered in each tiny town, surrounded by woods and craggy hillsides stretching into infinity. While a few official towns had been formed with real names and the occasional post office, much of northwestern Maine was a collection of unorganized territories who’d ditched names for numbers and no longer collected local taxes.

Now that I’d had a decent night’s rest, which I’d miraculously accomplished despite Eli and his delectable body lying in the bed beside me, I was no longer a quivering wreck. Anger had shoved fear aside. Someone had a personal vendetta against me. One of Russell’s friends? If so, they seemed to be making a lot of effort to exact revenge on a woman who’d done nothing wrong. One would think it would be easier to send me hate mail.

Or fling a bucketful of fish guts on my windshield.

Stress about who it could be, let alone why they were after me, kept me hyper-alert, prepared to bolt from any perceived threat. It made it nearly impossible to get the rest of my work done. With my presentation coming up in a few hours, I needed to shove aside my apprehension and skim through the notes lying on my lap one last time.

“Daily weights. Low sodium diet.

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