Buried Ranch Secrets by Lisa Childs

Author:Lisa Childs
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2022-10-07T11:55:19+00:00

Chapter Ten

The slam of the door echoed throughout the suddenly quiet kitchen. Cody couldn’t just stand there baking cookies while the woman he...the woman he used to love rushed off to confront someone who might be trying to kill her. How could she expect him to?

When Cody reached for the door handle, a soft sob stopped him. His daughter, probably confused by Bethany’s mad dash out the door, began to cry. Mrs. Snow, who’d been frozen in place, suddenly scrambled around the kitchen. “Where’s the phone? Where’s the phone!” she exclaimed, and her hand shook as she shoved baking sheets and cookie tins aside in search of it.

Cody pulled out his cell and handed it to her. “Call the sheriff, and keep an eye on Molly,” he said. Then he leaned down and kissed his daughter’s cheek. “I’ll make sure Bethany is okay,” he told her. “I’ll make sure nothing happens to her.”

He wasn’t sure how he was going to do that. He didn’t have a gun like she did. He didn’t even have any idea what she’d seen out the window. He hadn’t been able to focus on anything but her in that moment, when she’d been more worried that she was putting him and Molly in danger than she was worried about herself.

That was why she’d stayed away from him since the crash, not because she’d suspected him of being responsible. But because she’d worried that she was...

Just because she’d been doing her job.

“Daddy!” Molly called out when he opened the door. “She told you to stay here.”

And clearly Molly, with tears streaking down her face, wanted him to stay. But he couldn’t stand by and wait for help to arrive while Bethany rushed off to confront a threat on her own. He had to help.

Somehow...

“I’ll be right back,” he said. As he stepped out and shut the door, he heard Mrs. Snow calling out to him.

“Cody—”

He didn’t need her to tell him what he already knew. That he was acting rashly. At the moment, it was all he could do. Because he couldn’t do what Bethany wanted him to do: nothing at all. He had to protect her, but first he had to find her.

Once he was outside, he had no idea where she’d gone. The Snows’ van was still in the driveway, his truck parked next to it. So she hadn’t taken a vehicle. She’d left on foot. And when he looked down at the driveway, he noticed her prints in the fluffy snow that was falling so heavily. She hadn’t headed toward the street, which was what she’d been staring at out the bay window in the living room.

She’d obviously seen something or someone out there. So why hadn’t she headed that way? He tracked her through the backyard then through the neighbor’s yard next door. Dogs barked as he approached the fence of the next yard. Had she hopped over that?

Had she continued on this way? He looked around, but the grass was warmer than the asphalt, so the snow was already beginning to melt on it.

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