Tempting Faith (Indigo Love Spectrum) by Hubbard Crystal

Author:Hubbard, Crystal [Hubbard, Crystal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781585716173
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp
Published: 2009-03-03T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Zander’s cell phone rang just as he exited his trailer. His artfully distressed wifebeater, part of his wardrobe for his role in Everyday Achilles as a struggling single father at war with drug dealers, offered little protection from the chilly wind etching new patterns in the desert sand.

The scene he was about to film was set in July. Temperatures in Death Valley climbed as high as 120 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer, so early spring was a much friendlier time to shoot. Computer graphics engineers would add the heat elements later, but for right now, Zander was chilled.

He warmed considerably, however, after he answered the phone.

“How did it go yesterday?” Brent offered instead of a hello.

“You should have waited around,” Zander said, following the bundled electric cables leading to the filming location.

“You were in there with her for over an hour,” Brent said. “I had things to do.”

“She’s dropping the piece,” Zander told him. “She thinks she put herself in a compromising position—”

“That’s the best kind,” Brent said.

“It wasn’t like that. Not exactly.”

“However it was, thank God, you got her to back off. The poor thing probably didn’t know what hit her,” Brent laughed lightly.

“She knew,” Zander said. “She returned fire, and her weapons are better than mine.”

“I’m just glad that sword isn’t hanging over your head anymore. Mind if I ask what you said to her?”

“I invited her to dinner tomorrow night.”

A beat of silence. Then, “You didn’t.”

“Yeah, I did.”

“Where are you taking her?”

“Fawnskin.”

Brent groaned. “Zander, I can’t see anything positive coming from getting yourself in deeper with this woman. She’s backing off, for now, but the more she gets from you, the more likely everything you say and do will become material for Pers—”

Brent was still complaining when Zander disconnected the phone, handed it to a production assistant for safekeeping, and went to his mark prepared to take on a drug kingpin.

* * *

Zander had offered to arrange a car for her, but Faith decided to drive herself to Fawnskin, California, a pretty little resort town in San Bernardino County. She wanted her own vehicle at her disposal, just in case she needed to make a quick getaway.

She liked long drives, and the ninety-mile trip was relaxing. As she drove the picturesque route, she recalled the way her father often stood on their back patio in Booger Hollow, surveying his five-acre spread at the base of Kayford Mountain. “God made West Virginia,” he would proclaim, breathing deeply of the fresh mountain air.

On His day off, Faith thought now, basking in the glorious vistas before her as her sensible compact gobbled up the miles between Pomona and San Bernardino. She loved the mountains back home and in the west, but California also offered hundreds of miles of coastland and desert plains to explore. The first time she had hiked Muir Woods and stood breathless at the base of a giant redwood that had taken root when the Romans reigned, she knew that she was home, that California was the place for her.

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