Deadly Texas Summer by Colleen Thompson

Author:Colleen Thompson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-12-09T15:39:50+00:00

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Beau was still in bed when he received a call a little after seven the next morning.

“You sound like hell,” his former partner Tyler Phelps said, the distinctive rasp of his voice as good as any caller ID. “Hope I didn’t wake you.”

“If I’d slept worth half a damn last night, I would’ve been up for hours already, tackling the backlog of work I’ve got piled up.” Instead, Beau had wasted hours worrying about the ranch’s future and the woman staying under his roof. Whenever he had dozed off, he was soon jerked awake by nightmares where Emma went missing from her bed and Wallace only laughed at him when he called 911 for help.

“Remind me to steer clear of the farming life,” Ty said. “It’s too damned early as it is for my taste.”

“Ranching life. I’ve told you a dozen times before I’m not a farmer.” Beau snarled at the phone before Ty’s laughter made him realize that his old friend was jerking his chain for pure entertainment value. Which, ever since they’d suffered through boot camp together back on Parris Island, had practically been an Olympics-level competition between the two of them.

“Maybe you should go back to bed. Your sense of humor’s still asleep, Farmer Beau.”

“You ever come up with something funny, I’ll go ahead and wake it on up, Pirate.” Crossing his bedroom, Beau smirked as he reached for a pair of jeans to pull on over his boxers. But considering everything Ty had gone through this past year—hell, in all the years since an IED had scarred his right side, damaged his voice and forced him to wear an eye patch—it was a relief to hear him dealing grief instead of stewing in it.

“You might want to wake up yourself,” Ty said, sobering. “We really need to talk.”

“About Jeremy Hansen? Have you found him?” Fully awake now, Beau raked his fingers through his hair.

“I don’t know where he is, exactly, but I’ve got some information you need, and it isn’t just on him.”

Fully awake now, he stopped halfway through the act of pulling a shirt off a hanger from the walk-in closet. “You dug into her, too, didn’t you?” He’d given Ty Emma’s name and address, after all, and his friend wasn’t the sort to allow such an opportunity to pass. Was there something she’d been hiding from him, or had Ty gleaned enough from hints he’d dropped during several recent check-ins—calls Beau made to help ensure that the black dog of his friend’s depression wasn’t back to nipping at his heels—to start investigating issues surrounding the inheritance and ranch finances?

“Oh, I’ve looked into a lot of things,” Ty said, “so why don’t you meet me today in San Antonio if you can swing it? I’d come to you, but I’m afraid I’ve got a couple of obligations at this conference that I can’t get out of. Besides, it might be better,” he added darkly, “if we aren’t seen together.”

“Come on, Ty. Don’t leave me hanging,” Beau said, feeling the coarse hairs along his arms rise.

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