The Cutler Brothers Series by Paige Tyler

Author:Paige Tyler [Tyler, Paige]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-05-15T03:16:02+00:00

Though Madoc did his best to ignore her, it was difficult, and he was glad when the soup

started to bubble. Grabbing two mugs off the shelf, he poured soup into each and carried them

over to the table. Though she looked reluctant to do so, Shayna left her post by the stove and sat

down opposite him.

They ate in silence, which suited Madoc just fine. The less interaction he had with his

prisoner, the better. Shayna, however, didn’t seem to feel the same way, because after a few

moments, she spoke.

“So,” she said. “Where did you go on vacation?”

Madoc frowned, caught off guard by the question. “What?” he said.

“Last night, you said that you had been on vacation,” she reminded him. “I just

wondered where you went.”

Madoc said nothing for a moment. He didn’t usually discuss his personal life with

prisoners when he was transporting them. Then again, he’d never gotten snowbound with one

before. “I went out to Seattle for my brother’s wedding,” he said finally.

Across from him, Shayna smiled. “That must have been nice.”

From the expectant look on her face, Madoc knew she was waiting for him to say

something in reply to her comment, and when he didn’t, she prompted him with another

question.

“Are you originally from the Seattle area?” she said.

He shook his head. “Texas.”

She nodded. “Have you lived in Denver long?”

“A while,” he said, and he saw her frown at his noncommittal answer.

“Do you like it?” she asked.

“Yes.”

It was obvious from her expression that Shayna expected him to elaborate, but again, he

didn’t, and Madoc hoped that would put an end to the conversation. But to his annoyance, she

took his reluctance to talk about himself as her cue to tell him about herself instead.

At first, Madoc didn’t pay much attention to what Shayna was saying, but as the morning

wore on, he found himself not only starting to listen to her, but actually joining in the

conversation. To his surprise, he and Shayna had a lot more in common than he would have

thought, including their love of cheesy horror flicks. Madoc almost fell off the chair when she

admitted that she loved zombie movies.

“And I have the DVD collection to prove it,” she added with a grin.

That prompted a lively debate about the best zombie movie ever made, and though they

agreed to disagree, the conversation had Madoc wondering where a woman like Shayna

Matthews had been all his life. When he had suggested to any of the other women he’d gone out

with that they spend the night in front of the television watching Night of the Living Dead instead of going out to a dance club, they had looked at him like he’d lost his mind.

From there, the conversation turned to Madoc and his life growing up in Texas. To his

surprise, he found himself telling her not only about the close relationship he had with his family,

but also about his job as a U.S. Marshal.

Sitting back in his chair, Madoc glanced out the cabin’s one small window and was

stunned to see that it was getting dark outside. He couldn’t

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