Trusting the Bodyguard by Kimberly van Meter - Home in Emmett's Mill 03 - Trusting the Bodyguard

Author:Kimberly van Meter - Home in Emmett's Mill 03 - Trusting the Bodyguard [Meter, Kimberly van]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Category, Emmet's Mill, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, General
ISBN: 9780373716272
Google: HhQEQgAACAAJ
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2009-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

ARCHER EYED THE WINDOWS, wide and welcoming at their best, but sporting weak spots and highly accessible at their worst, and started shuttering the house.

“What are you doing?” she asked, her voice strained. “Can I help?”“No, stay away from the windows. I’m making it that much harder for someone to see inside the house. Stay where you are and don’t go outside.”

He caught her shivering and he paused for only a moment to reassure her. “I’m just taking precautions. But the more I learn about Ruben Ortiz, the less I’m interested in taking chances. Can you remember whether or not you told your boss where you were?”

“Her name is Layla,” she answered numbly but then shook her head. “I just said I needed some personal time. Because of my sister.”

“Let me see your phone,” he demanded. “I need to see what kind of system you’re on and if you have GPS,” he said when she frowned.

She moved to her purse and pulled her cell phone out to hand it to him.

He cracked open the back, his mouth tightening. “I was hoping it was one of the older models…but it’s not. State of the art. And it’s fully equipped with GPS.”

“So? Isn’t that a good thing?”

“Under normal circumstances I’d say yes. But we’re not dealing with normal. You might as well have tagged a homing device on your ass. If Ruben were smart, and he had the right contacts, all it would take to find you is to track your location using your phone.”

She gasped and stared, unable to believe she’d been so naive. Suddenly having a phone with so many cool features, like wireless Internet and salsa ringtones, didn’t seem so great. “What do I do with it?” she asked, still staring at her phone as if it had morphed into a scorpion and was heading straight for her.

“Well, for starters…” He busted open the phone, causing her to jump, and then ripped its poor guts out. “The chip is what makes it work. So, we make it stop working.”

She looked at the destruction of her very expensive and now useless phone and wanted to cry. “Do you think that will be covered by the warranty?” she asked in a whisper and suddenly Archer realized she wasn’t talking about the phone any longer. Her knees buckled and she collapsed on the sofa, a quivering pile of nerves, circling the edge of a breakdown. She put her head in her hands and great big sobs started rolling out of her.

“Hey, what’s this?” Archer asked, pulling her into his arms. Her sobs just got louder. She was beyond the place where rational, coherent thinking lived. He must’ve sensed this for his arms simply tightened and he made soft soothing noises that were so unlike Archer she was certain she’d fallen into the arms of someone else. “Everything’s going to be all right,” he promised, prompting her to pull away.

“How do you know that?” she asked, wiping at her nose with the back of her hand.

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