Treasure Point Secrets by Sarah Varland

Author:Sarah Varland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

TEN

“I’m fine,” Shiloh repeated—for what had to be the tenth time—to the EMT working on her arm. No one listened, which came as no surprise since they hadn’t listened so far.

“What happened?” The chief’s gruff voice—the very thing that had angered her so much not an hour ago and had caused her to go for a run on this trail to calm down—seemed comforting and familiar now.

“I rounded the corner there—” She motioned with her good arm, which apparently still bothered the EMTs since one of them grunted and told her to be still. “And shots were fired. Two. The first was low and kicked up the dirt maybe five to seven feet away from me. The second grazed my arm. Whoever we’re looking for is not the best shot.”

“Shiloh, it’s becoming clear that these aren’t idle threats. Someone is trying to kill you.”

She snorted, still feeling the adrenaline rushing through her. “They’re not doing a very good job.”

The glance the chief shot her was less than amused.

Shiloh shrugged apologetically. “Look. I thought about what you said. And while I still don’t love the idea...” She was ready to tell him the rest of what had happened. But as she glanced at the horde of people around her, she realized now wasn’t the time to communicate that to the chief.

He nodded, apparently having seen her thoughts in her eyes. “Come to my office when they’re done with you. I’m going to go look around, give Hitchcock another set of eyes.”

Ah, their crime-scene team of one. Once again her town’s need for a real crime-scene team was glaringly apparent. Nothing against Hitchcock. But there was only one of him, and his training didn’t qualify him as an expert in forensics. Hopefully, he’d be savvy enough not to waste the gift they’d been given here now that their criminals had gone this far.

Shiloh just nodded. “See you later, Chief.” She sat still as the medical people continued to clean her wound. It seemed to be taking a long time, particularly when it was nothing more than a scratch, but when she’d suggested initially that someone let her have a bandage and call it good, the reaction hadn’t been favorable.

“Where is she?”

What had been a thunder of different voices in the background gave way to one very clear, panicked voice that she didn’t have to work to recognize.

“Adam! I’m over here!”

She thought she saw the top of his head as he ducked around people and made his way to her. Finally, there he was.

“Are you okay?” His eyes flickered to her arm. “No. You’re not.”

His face was paler than she’d ever seen it, and his eyes looked softer, less guarded than they had since he had come to Treasure Point. In that instant, it would’ve been easy to believe that the past five years had never happened, that they were still engaged. That maybe, just maybe, he still loved her.

“I’m fine.”

His eyes searched hers, and Shiloh wasn’t sure if it was

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