Wilderness Hunt by Lisa Phillips

Author:Lisa Phillips
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2022-10-04T22:39:00+00:00

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Ethan was all in to find Brett. When Kelly glanced at him, he nodded. Tried to get a handle on the adrenaline now coursing through him. He laid his hand on Nico’s head, finding solace in the dog’s presence.

“Nico, come.”

He moved with the dog, and Kelly said, “You okay?” She shifted the leash in her hands. “Did he hurt you?”

Ethan didn’t want to be helpless. “I’m not much more injured than I was earlier.”

“But you should still be lying down, resting. Right?”

Of course she was going to pull that card. “It would take too long to go back, and you need to be out here finding Brett.” Preferably before O’Callaghan’s men did to Ethan’s brother what Kelly’s chief had done.

Franko O’Callaghan had been about to kill the chief or Kelly. It would be written up in the police report as a “good shoot” or however they labeled it that meant it was justified—because it had been. And considering what the guy had threatened to do to Ethan, he didn’t mind so much that the guy was dead. Apparently Franko had skill with knives.

Ethan was glad he didn’t have to defend himself, unarmed, against a blade.

“He’s right,” the chief said. “Let’s put that dog to work.”

Kelly held his gaze for a second, then commanded Nico to find Brett using the item he gave her from the plane—a shirt that had belonged to his brother.

The dog jumped into action, sniffing the ground around them.

Ethan just prayed Brett had walked this way. It had been more than a day since the plane crash, past time for his twin and the marshals with him to get to safety and call in. So where was he?

Usually, Ethan was out of contact, being deployed several times during his stint of service. Brett had asked him to stay a few days every time he came home. Ethan quickly realized it was the best thing. They both felt the equilibrium of being together, and how it settled the restlessness inside them after a couple of days in each other’s company. Usually they went camping.

They’d need another one of those trips after all this—something the marshals hadn’t let them do since they enrolled together in witness security. No way had either of them considered never seeing each other again. He couldn’t imagine not having his brother in his life, so even though it upended everything to find out Brett’s life was in danger, Ethan went with him.

The rush of memory felt like walking into a sticky spider web.

Pride that his brother was doing the right thing. Worry over why Brett decided now to do something good like testifying—and protect himself in the process. Not to mention what Brett hadn’t told him because there was always something Brett held back. The guy was more complicated than anyone Ethan had ever met.

The chief moved to walk alongside him. “Do you mind answering a few questions?”

Ethan shrugged. “Talking it through might be a good idea.”

If he didn’t get a distraction, he would wind up wallowing in what he’d be left with if Brett was no longer alive.

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