Ambush before Sunrise by B.J. Daniels

Author:B.J. Daniels
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-03-05T20:22:53+00:00

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WYATT THOUGHT ABOUT riding out of the mountains and not looking back. T.D. had sent him out to see what damage had been done to Jinx and her herd after the fire. He hated to report that Jinx and her crew had put out the fire with the rainstorm finishing the job. He knew that news was going to put T.D. into a tailspin. He’d thought he was so smart starting the fire.

“Well?” T.D. demanded as he dismounted. “Took you long enough. I thought I was going to have to come look for you.”

Wyatt already anticipated the cowboy’s reaction to what he had to tell him. “They fought the fire, putting it almost out. Then the rain did the rest. The fire’s out.”

“What about the herd?” T.D. demanded. “Surely it scattered some of them.”

He shook his head. “Sorry.”

T.D. swore and stomped around the wet camp. Royce was trying to get a fire going again but everything was soaking wet after the squall that had come through. He and Cash were arguing, Cash saying he was hungry and might ride down to town.

“We should all ride out of here,” Travis said, watching them. He looked wet and miserable. “I don’t know what we’re doing up here anyway.”

T.D. turned on him so quickly Travis didn’t have a chance to react. The blow sent him sprawling onto the wet ground. “I’m sick of your whining. Nothing is keeping you here and while you’re at it, take those two with you.”

Royce looked up, seeming surprised that T.D. meant him and Cash. He’d managed to get a small blaze going. He continued building the fire. Cash, Wyatt noted, had gone silent.

“That’s all you saw?” T.D. asked as Wyatt hung up his slicker on a tree limb to dry in the sun. “I thought for sure that the fire would spook the herd. Or at least scatter them.”

Wyatt shook his head. All the way back, he’d debated telling T.D. what he’d seen through his binoculars near the stream. Maybe it would end this once and for all. Or maybe it would make T.D. even crazier.

He had no idea what T.D. would do if he told him that he’d seen Jinx and one of her wranglers down by the stream swimming together, then talking while sitting in the sun and then kissing.

Wyatt had watched, unable to pull his eyes away. The two had been so close, so intimate. He wouldn’t have been surprised if they’d stripped down and made love right there beside the water. The scene had been so passionate, it had made him wonder if the kiss was the first between the two of them.

He saw that Travis had gotten to his feet and was now busying himself hanging his wet clothing on a tree branch, his back to the rest of them. After T.D. had punched him, why hadn’t Travis left? Wyatt told himself he would have gone with him, but he knew that was a lie. T.D. would expect him to stay.

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