Close Range Christmas by Nicole Helm

Author:Nicole Helm
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-08-11T17:26:22+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Sarah woke once again to the sound of a bang and shattering glass. At first she thought it had been a nightmare, just a replay of what had happened hours earlier. After all, they’d covered the bedroom windows where people were sleeping. She was in Dev’s room, so there was no window here.

Surely it had been a nightmare.

But the dogs were barking like crazy and there were footsteps rushing above. Then her door opened and Dev moved inside. Before he even spoke she knew it wasn’t a nightmare.

“Stay where you are.”

“What? What’s happened?”

“Another shot fired at the house. The six of us were together when it happened. Then we split up to tell everyone to stay put.”

“More shooting at the house?” Her brain was sluggish and she tried to remember everything that had happened in the middle of the night. Too much, and this wasn’t good. “Is everyone okay?”

“We’re all fine. Jamison called the guy who was on patrol and he’s on his way, but I don’t think he’s going to find anything.”

“What are we going to do?”

“I just need you to stay put for the time being. Once Jamison gets the all clear, we’re going to go out ourselves and see if we can find a clue.”

“You shouldn’t go out.” She flung the covers off her with the thought to jump out of bed and grab him, but he stalked over to the bed and pulled the covers right back over her.

“Stay put like I said,” he ordered.

“You guys can’t go out there. We are being shot at. You have to stay inside and...”

“And what? We have a ranch to run. You have a doctor’s appointment today. We can’t stay shut up inside hoping he goes away.”

Sarah felt like crying. Of course the cattle couldn’t be ignored. It wasn’t smart to skip the doctor’s appointment when she was this close to her due date. But didn’t the people she loved outweigh all that?

He sighed and sat on the very edge of the bed. After a minute of clear internal debate, he took her hand and gave it a squeeze. “No one’s been hurt. There are threats, and obviously this is scary, especially with you pregnant and the girls here, but we’re handling it as best we can.”

“We are sitting ducks.”

He held her hand between his much bigger ones. There was some comfort in that, but not enough to soothe any of the fears. Twice they’d been shot at, and maybe the fact no one had been hurt meant something, but bullets flying around weren’t ever a good thing.

“He’ll make a mistake. He can’t keep lurking around and not get caught.”

“Why not? We live in the middle of nowhere. He’s taken out almost all of Cody’s security measures. He could lurk all day and all night and we’ll never be able to do anything about it.”

“I think at some point the five law enforcement officers living under the same roof means something.”

She wished that comforted her any. It should. The Wyatt brothers were smart.

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