Stranger on Raven's Ridge by Jenna Ryan

Author:Jenna Ryan [Ryan, Jenna]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Romantic Suspense
ISBN: 9780373747320
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“You surely can hold your liquor, lovebird.” Weasel gave a sloppy wink. “It takes a woman with balls to do that.”

Not the most flattering description, Raven reflected, but he was slurring his words quite badly now, and that was a promising sign.

She deliberately kept her distance from Steven. Whatever he was doing involved a great deal of covert arm and shoulder movement, as well as the odd grimace of pain.

With his gait off-kilter, Weasel tossed back the last of the alcohol in the Mason jar. Please be enough, Raven prayed. She struggled not to recoil when he walked up to her and, face-to-face, hung his left arm over her right shoulder. “Fight me,” he ordered.

Her stomach clutched. “Um, now? Before I’m finished...?”

The plastic cup flew from her fingers. Showing his prominent front teeth, Weasel grabbed her shoulders. “You fight me, Raven Blume, else I’m gonna start hurting parts of you you’d rather I didn’t.”

He’d do that anyway, she realized, until she screamed. Then he’d do more until those screams got him off.

Her throat muscles didn’t want to work. She had to beat back the panic that controlled them.

“Do you want it clean or dirty?” she managed to ask.

His bloodshot eyes lit up even as his hands slid downward to grip her arms. “Surprise me.”

Closing her own eyes briefly, she sucked in a mental breath and moved to knee him. As expected, he laughed and blocked the blow, leaving her free to slam her fist into his ear.

When he howled, she shoved him backward. Remember the lessons, she told herself, and used her foot to side kick his knee low and his torso high.

He stumbled into a wall still howling—and, unfortunately, still smiling. Sort of. The expression on his face had changed to one of excitement tinged with anger.

“Bitch,” he swore. But he made a come-ahead motion with the fingers of both hands. “You hurt me good there, lovebird. Now I want you to take your very best shot. You get one more freebie.”

Without hesitation, she went for a hook kick to the head.

The surprise on his face told her he hadn’t seen it coming, but he got a hand up fast and tried to trap her ankle.

His bleary eyes flashed with something ugly when he missed. “My turn now,” he warned. He took a single pawing step and charged.

Raven knew he was going to ram her into the wall. She ducked to her right, saw him correct and braced for the blow. However, instead of being butted against marble, she was mowed down from the side by Steven’s flying body.

Weasel cursed, her cousin snarled and the two men grappled briefly on the floor. Steven got in three solid punches before Weasel nailed him in the throat, did a shoulder roll and yanked a gun from his boot.

“Twitch, either of you, and I’ll put a bullet between Cousin Blume’s eyebrow rings.” Staring Steven down, he aimed a finger at Raven. “You, over here!”

She’d made it halfway to the slab where Weasel’s larger gun sat.

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