Two Hearts by Maggie Shayne

Author:Maggie Shayne [Shayne, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488096990
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2000-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

Her husband—or, the stranger who looked like her husband—stared at Grace, sighed deeply and took her hand. “We’ll get them back, Grace.”

She studied him, his tanned face, his square jaw, the gray of his eyes, and she realized she didn’t know this man at all. She’d been married to him for all of two weeks, and she didn’t know the first thing about who he really was. “How?” she asked, without thinking first.

Jack held her eyes. “It’s what I do. I do it well.”

Confident, his tone. Strong. As strong as his hand around hers. She believed him. And that simple reassurance made her feel slightly less afraid. As little sense as that made…and she knew it made damn little. Still, she sensed he was being completely honest with her for the first time since she’d met him. “Okay.”

Jack started walking, still holding her hand, back down the dark path that passed for a road out here. “My car’s right here,” she said.

“I’ll send someone back for your car. I think you ought to ride with me. We can…talk.”

“Something we haven’t done enough of.” To her own ears, her voice was low, wary. And for a long time she searched his eyes, trying to see the man she’d seen before. The staid, reserved man who went to work every morning in a nice suit and carried a briefcase. But instead she saw only this stranger, his clothes rumpled, his hair uncombed, his strong jaw lined with stubble. And a big black gun that still smelled of hot sulphur clutched in his hand.

“JW?” Jack called.

Grace looked around, saw JW handcuffing the still-unconscious man, rolling him over. “We’ll get the cars and toss him in on the way back. He ain’t goin’ anywhere.”

Jack looked at her, and a grudging half smile tugged at one side of his mouth. “Where’d you learn all that, Grace?”

She shrugged, saying nothing. “Where’s your car, Jack?”

“Back here.” He led her onward, JW bringing up the rear. When she saw the two vehicles sitting on the little pull-off alongside the dirt road, she frowned. “That’s not your car.”

Jack sighed. “I couldn’t drive the Lexus on the job,” he said. “I’m supposed to be stopping crime, not volunteering to play the victim.”

She nodded slowly, thinking as he spoke. “You, um, must work in some pretty rough neighborhoods.”

He licked his lips, a little nervously, she thought. “Not for much longer, Grace.” Then he looked right into her eyes. “I promise you that.”

Tilting her head to one side, Grace asked, “Why?”

“Why what?”

She thought about that for a moment, but couldn’t come up with a single answer. Instead there were a dozen pecking at her mind. Why was he going to quit? Why had he lied to her? Why had she never known about this old car of his? Where had he been keeping it? What else had he been hiding from her? She gave her head a shake, deciding there was no time for all of this now. Later, though, they were going to have to have some serious discussions.

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