Stacking the Deck (Redemption Club Book 1) by Anne Marie Becker

Author:Anne Marie Becker [Becker, Anne Marie]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Publisher: Anne Marie Becker
Published: 2015-11-09T05:00:00+00:00

“Dev was okay with you taking off like this?” Skye asked as they turned onto US 93, heading south into Arizona. They’d left her clunker in Jared’s garage in favor of using his car for the four-hour drive to Flagstaff.

Jared’s lips twisted in a wry smile. “He’s had to put up with it for weeks. But he agrees finding Chelsea is a priority. And I’d do the same for him if the tables were turned.”

“Must be nice to work with a friend who understands.” She turned in the passenger seat to examine him. He inspired loyalty from others where she couldn’t even get her uncle to be honest with her. How could he have been so close to a man like Robert Stone that they’d purchased a ranch together? And how had he kept such a thing a secret for over twenty years? But it did explain, maybe, why Stone had leverage over her uncle—enough that Stone could demand Tom kick her off the ranch. She hoped Uncle Tom called her back soon because she had a million questions for him.

Jared grunted. “He’s certainly taken on more than his fair share of work this past month.”

“How’d you come to form GSS with him?”

“We met in Afghanistan, while I was in the Army.”

She smiled. “I had a feeling you were military. Dev was a soldier, too?”

“No.” Something undefined flitted across his expression, but he didn’t elaborate. “I worked as an MP—a military policeman. I got out because it was time to come home. My sisters were growing up, the younger one, Haley, getting into more mischief than her aunt can handle.”

“Her aunt?”

“Chelsea, Haley and I have three different fathers. Aunt Jane is Haley’s father’s sister. Haley’s father never wanted anything to do with her, but his sister was willing to step up when our mother died. Anyway, Jane took in Haley and Chelsea, until Chelsea was old enough to move into an apartment with friends. Jane was threatening to put Haley out on the street if I didn’t come back.”

Skye gasped. “Would she have?” She couldn’t imagine what would have happened to her if her uncle hadn’t taken her in. She’d have become a ward of the state, she supposed. She felt pain when Tom had told her to leave, but to be a young girl like Haley, dependent on an adult who didn’t want you, would be a lot more frightening.

He shrugged. “Jane was at the end of her rope. I received at least an email a day from her, begging me to come get Haley. She needed a handler.”

And someone she could depend on, Skye suspected. A man like Jared who wouldn’t drug his kids just to keep them out of his way while he conducted business.

“I missed my sisters,” Jared continued. “So, I applied for a discharge from the Army and moved back to Vegas.”

“And bought a house big enough for all of you.” The room she’d slept in last night had a bed with clean sheets and a nearly empty dresser, as well as a few personal touches that were clearly feminine.

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