Take Me Under by Rhyannon Byrd

Author:Rhyannon Byrd
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯), Fiction
ISBN: 9780425262931
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Published: 2013-06-03T22:00:00+00:00

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BEN SQUINTED AGAINST THE EARLY MORNING SUNSHINE GLARING OFF the highway, wishing he hadn’t forgotten his sunglasses. It hadn’t been easy to drag his ass out of Reese’s bed when the five a.m. call had come in on his cell. There’d been a nasty head-on collision on the interstate, out on the edge of town, and three people were dead. One of the trucks involved had been carrying a heavy load of gasoline, and both vehicles had gone up in flames too quickly for anyone to escape.

Considering how the accident had taken place, he wondered if the driver who’d veered into the oncoming lanes had been drinking, or if there’d been another factor that made him lose control. Hopefully the coroner would be able to shed some light on the situation, giving the victims’ friends and loved ones a better sense of closure. It was a miserable situation, and for the first time that he could remember, Ben found himself wondering how he’d react if one of the victims had been someone he had a personal connection to. Hell, what if it had been Reese in one of those cars? He couldn’t imagine the rage that would consume him, or the kind of raw, gaping hole her death would leave inside him. He shuddered, not even wanting to follow that particular trail of thought. He was barely dealing with this stalker shit as it was. If he started thinking about something bad happening to her, he’d lose it. Big time.

As he’d left her house that morning, he’d made her promise to lock the door behind him and keep the alarm set. But it didn’t make him feel any better. He wanted her by his side. Wanted her close enough that he could protect her if any fucker ever tried to harm her.

When he finally made his way into the station, he dropped her phone off to Toby in IT, then ran into Ryder, who gave him a preliminary report on Drew Leighton. Sitting at his desk, Ben flipped through the pages, impressed with Ryder’s work. He didn’t know why the guy was working as a deputy, when he could have had a position with any private-sector security firm in the country, but figured it wasn’t his place to pry. If Ryder wanted to spend his life working for the sheriff’s department, he was damn glad to have him.

The report on Leighton made for some interesting reading. On the surface, he looked like your all-American prep boy, his background not dissimilar to that of Miami drug lord Ryan Houghton. Growing up, they’d both had their share of mansions, private schools, and pricey beach houses in Martha’s Vineyard. Leighton came from some serious money, and was in good standing with Boston’s social elite. But when you looked a little deeper, you could start to see just what a controlling, arrogant prick he really was. When he was seventeen, his girlfriend’s parents had filed a report against him for harassing their daughter when she’d tried to end the relationship.

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