Alaskan Mountain Pursuit by Elizabeth Goddard

Author:Elizabeth Goddard [Goddard, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-01-04T21:12:19+00:00

TWO

Clay’s world felt like it had gone from zero to sixty in less than ten seconds. He didn’t know why he was so surprised he’d found Tyler’s sister—at least he was pretty sure that was who he had found—because he’d prayed for that very thing. Still, seeing her dart into the road, clearly running from something, and jumping into his truck like she trusted him to protect her, it was overwhelming.

“Are you Summer Dawson?” he asked as he drove. He glanced down at his search directions and planned a quick route back to the lodge.

He caught her frown out of the corner of his eye. “Why?” she asked.

“Your brother has people out looking for you and I’m supposed to call if I find you.”

“Which brother?”

“Tyler.” Clearly he’d overestimated the amount of trust she’d have in a stranger. She needed to get out of her situation badly enough to jump in the truck, but now that she was momentarily safe, she was trying to keep herself that way by being guarded. Clay understood, but needed a way to convince her he wasn’t a threat.

“My phone is on the dashboard. You can call Tyler from it if you want—you’ll see that I have his number. He’ll also confirm who I am if you ask him to. I’m Clay Hitchcock and I’m guiding at the lodge this summer.”

She reached for the phone and pressed the screen a few times. Calling Tyler, he assumed.

“It’s Summer. I’m safe and I’m with Clay, your friend?”

He didn’t miss how that last part was a question. When he’d found out she was missing, he’d assumed that in this remote area of Alaska, she’d had a bad encounter with a wild animal or had issues with the terrain. The darker possibilities of meeting a human who wanted to cause her harm had crossed his mind, but he hadn’t thought they deserved a great deal of consideration up here in this small, picturesque Alaska town and had written them off as paranoia. Now he wasn’t sure. She was too upset, too skittish and hesitant to trust to have been running from an animal.

He stole a quick look at her and thought her frown had eased slightly. Good. With that tension on her side out of the way, he could focus on getting whatever information he could out of her about her encounter. He knew law enforcement would want to talk to her as soon as they got to the lodge, but it wasn’t uncommon for the edge of a person’s memory to fade the longer they were out of a traumatic situation. Maybe talking about it now would help cement some of the details in her memory.

“I’m okay for now, Tyler. I’ll be okay, alright?”

Not a very convincing voice she was using, and Clay didn’t blame her. Whatever happened had clearly been extremely traumatic for her to get in the car with a stranger when she was so shaken up.

“Alright, bye.” She finished the conversation and set the phone down and looked back at him.

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