Under the Cowboy's Protection by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-11-06T19:18:21+00:00

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RALEIGH FELT THAT kick of emotion. A mix of dread and adrenaline. There was also some fear, since he figured that Thea and he had just walked into a crime scene.

His gaze slashed to every corner of the room. It was an office with a desk, but there was no one at the desk or beneath it. Only the woman on the floor.

“Is she still alive?” Thea asked, automatically taking out her phone. No doubt to call for an ambulance.

While he continued to keep watch, Raleigh stooped down and put his fingers to the woman’s throat. “She’s got a pulse.” But in addition to what appeared to be blunt-force trauma to the head, she also had two distinctive marks on her neck.

Someone had used a stun gun on her.

Just as they had on Thea when she’d been at Sonya’s house.

“Get Alice in here,” Raleigh told Thea as she continued to make the call. “I need to check those back rooms where we heard the phone ringing.”

And he didn’t want to do that unless he had someone to help him protect Thea. Of course, Thea wouldn’t appreciate him thinking like that, but she’d already come too close to dying, not once but twice.

Thea nodded and headed for the door but stopped when they heard another sound. Not a moan or a phone ringing this time. Someone was moving around in the room at the end of the hall. There was a sign next to that particular door, and it had Shaw’s name on it, which meant that was his office.

“Call Alice and tell her to get in here,” Raleigh repeated to Thea. She started to do that, but again the sound interrupted her.

But it was more than an interruption this time.

Shaw’s office door flew open, and before Raleigh could even get a glimpse of the person who’d opened it, a shot blasted through the air. The bullet slammed into the wall right next to where Raleigh was standing. Another quarter of an inch, and he’d have been dead.

Raleigh hooked his arm around Thea, dragging her to the floor, but she’d already started in that direction anyway. Good thing, too, because more shots came. Thick, loud blasts that tore apart not just the wall behind them but also the reception desk. Since the desk wasn’t much of a barrier at all, Raleigh pulled Thea into the room with the unconscious woman.

The woman moaned as if trying to warn them, but it was too late for that. Thea and he were under fire, and if Raleigh lifted his head to shoot back, he’d be an easy target.

Since the injured woman was too close to the door, Thea dragged her to the side so she wouldn’t get hit by a stray bullet, and then Thea hurried back to him. A place he wished she wouldn’t be, but he doubted there was any way he could talk her out of it. Plus, he needed the backup.

His phone buzzed, and when Raleigh saw Alice’s name on the screen, he handed it to Thea.

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