Wind River Undercover by Lindsay McKenna

Author:Lindsay McKenna [McKenna, Lindsay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zebra Books
Published: 2020-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Gabe timed them arriving at the parking lot. He pulled off the road before entering the area. Instead, he found several smaller evergreens as cover, driving behind them and hiding their truck. Up ahead, he saw the Elson truck parked and neither brother in sight. Turning, he said to Anna, “I’m going to recon with Ace and try to locate those two.” He took the radio, clipping it on the inside of his coat collar, placing the earpiece into his ear.

“Okay, but give me updates or I’ll bail out of this truck to find you. I’m not sitting here long, Gabe.”

“Roger that,” he said, and he leaned over, kissing her temple quickly. “Later . . .”

Stunned, she sat there, staring at him. There was amusement in his eyes, that sensual mouth of his moving slightly upward at the corners. In moments, he was out of the truck and quietly closing the door. He had kissed her! She hadn’t expected it. But she didn’t dislike it, either.

Using the woods as cover, Gabe and Ace quickly moved through the squishy, slippery brown pine needles that covered the floor of the forest. He’d committed this area to memory and moved up a steeper slope, hunched over, staying low and using the massive tree trunks that rose fifty to eighty feet above him to hide his presence. His breath came out in wisps and jets. Ace was ahead of him on a six-foot leash, ears up, and Gabe knew the dog could hear the two men even if he couldn’t. The way his dog tugged against the leash, going up the slope like a rocket without hesitation, Ace was now in battle mode. The rain was pelting bits of ice and slowly turning to sleet. He pulled his black baseball cap a little lower to protect his eyes as he dug into the soft, wet floor with the toes of his boots, moving to the right, knowing that soon, the entire parking lot would be viewable.

Two minutes later, Gabe halted, hunkered down on one knee behind a large tree trunk, Ace coming to his side, panting, but all his attention farther up the heavily wooded slope.

There, below, was the Elson truck. Where were they at? Swiftly scanning the area around the parking lot, he caught a flash of an Elson’s bright red coat far above him. Ace saw it too, a low growl in his throat. The slope was straight up and unforgiving, with black rocks poking out of the pine needle floor here and there. The mountainside went up to seven thousand feet and then dropped just as steeply back down into a large, oval valley below that was Rocking G property.

He quickly spoke to Anna, telling her that he and Ace were going to follow them. He gave his GPS coordinates, which she would convey to the DEA HQ. There was no way with her ankle in its present condition that she could do what he was now doing, and both of them knew it.

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