Ambush in Alaska by Darlene L. Turner

Author:Darlene L. Turner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2022-11-03T11:54:24+00:00

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Finishing his last trip around the perimeter of the cabin, Brody took a deep breath of the fresh air, laced with the scent of earth and trees, then mounted the steps to the porch. When he reached the door to the ranger’s cabin, he panned the small clearing. Nearing midnight, it was still light outside. The temperature began to drop as the sun finally started its descent. When moving to Alaska, the only thing he really had to adjust to was the long daylight hours in summer and equally long nighttime ones in winter. At least in Anchorage where he was living it was farther south and the days and nights didn’t get as skewed as they did up here nearer the Arctic Circle.

Inside the cabin, he left the shotgun by the door for Kevin, who was relieving him on patrol. He turned to find Arianna sitting on the couch, staring at him. Her gray eyes with a hint of blue reminded him of the lake he’d flown over this morning.

“Did you see the mama bear that’s been hanging around the cabin lately?” she asked and went back to playing solitaire.

“No. Where’s Kevin?”

“Right here. Sorry. I figured I needed a jacket since the sun was going down.” Kevin picked up the shotgun and exited the cabin.

“So it’s just you and me since Mark is taking his turn sleeping.”

For a second he thought he saw a teasing gleam in her eyes before she averted her gaze to study the spread of cards on the coffee table in front of her. He sat in a chair across from her. “Have you won any games?”

“Two probably out of fifty.” She raised her head. “Wanna play Scrabble?”

“I’ve been warned about you and Scrabble.”

“I took you for a man who likes a good challenge.” A full-fledged smile encompassed her whole face.

“And baiting me guarantees you’ll have an opponent.”

“Yep, kinda hard playing Scrabble with yourself. No challenge really.”

“You’re on. Where’s the game?”

Arianna gestured toward the bookcase behind him. “I think I’ll leave the ranger who lives here a thank-you note. I don’t know what I would have done without some of his games. I brought a deck of cards and some books, but I went through the books in the first four days and I’m sick of playing solitaire. Do you have any idea when I’ll get to testify and can move back to civilization?”

“No. Rainwater’s attorney gets big bucks to delay the trial as long as he can.”

“Because he’s got people out there looking for me.”

“Yes, you know the score. If you testify, he’ll most likely go down for murder. Without finding the ledger Rainwater killed Perkins over, you’re the main witness in his trial. Without you, he’d probably get acquitted, if they even went ahead with the trial.”

“Something very incriminating must be in the ledger Rainwater was looking for.”

“Perkins kept the books for Rainwater. The public set has been sanitized not to include anything incriminating. We think Perkins kept a second ledger with all the dirt on the man.

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