The Rule Breakers Series 4-Book Bundle by Jennifer Chance

Author:Jennifer Chance [Chance, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8129-8778-2
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2015-07-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3

This was going to suck sideways.

Sitting in front of Zander’s house at the end of a long line of cars, Erin checked her makeup for the last time and tucked her keys in her clutch. She hated carrying a purse, but the dress she’d chosen for the day didn’t have pockets, of course, and she couldn’t just wander around jingling keys in her hand. She tossed the clutch on the seat beside her, then flipped the visor down again.

The face staring back at her was exactly the same as it had been fifteen seconds earlier.

“This is not a big deal,” she muttered. “He said he’d answer my questions. Then I can go.” She almost had everything ready, too. She’d completed the refi on her brownstone to pull out the max limit—almost a half-million dollars, with plenty left over for expenses. The bank had promised her that all of the money could be withdrawn from the south Texas branch she’d designated in just forty-eight more hours. Then, with just a quick note to Dani Michaels, her only roommate currently in residence, Erin would be on a plane to Laredo International Airport the following morning. Then I’ll rent a car, get the money, go over the border and…you know. Try not to die.

“Pull it together,” Erin ordered her reflection. “And enough with the doe-eyed ex-girlfriend thing while you’re at it.” Because regardless of Zander’s surliness, Erin hadn’t missed her full-body reaction to him. There’d been a Godzilla-size zing when he’d touched her, and while that without a doubt explained why her love life had been AWOL for the past four years right along with Zander, it was completely beside the point. She wasn’t here for a hometown hookup with the friendly neighborhood Army Ranger. She was here for information. Period.

Erin focused on the house up the lane…and made no move to get out of the car.

She clenched her hands on the steering wheel, studying her knuckles instead as her mind drifted back over territory that had been strictly off-limits for four very long years.

It hadn’t been all bad, her relationship with Zander James. Being a part of that swarm of kids who’d been in constant motion at his house. If she was honest with herself, coming out to the cape every day all of those summers had been the best experience of her young life. It certainly had taken her mind off the mess that was her own family. Gran Ginny had loved her work, and Erin had helped her out, not even really thinking about it as a “job,” so much as losing herself in the beautiful gardens of homes that were weathered and comfortable and way pricier than they looked. Then, one day in her second summer out on the cape, she’d found a group of kids her own age and they’d asked her to hang out at the beach instead of weeding their backyards. Ginny hadn’t minded at all—her main concern with Erin had been child care, not the money she’d brought in.

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