Deceiving Death by Ruth Logan Herne

Author:Ruth Logan Herne [Herne, Ruth Logan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-30T18:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Irritating.

Irascible.

And outrageously attractive, especially when he put on the “I know best” routine.

And that kiss...

She couldn’t think about that kiss. Or what it might mean, because it probably meant nothing. Absolutely nothing. Something done in the moment.

Right now she was not only in the moment, she was in a situation that could get people killed.

Two assassins.

Was he right?

He was always right. And even when he wasn’t, he was real close to being right.

She texted again to have Buddy pass the word.

“How’d you tempt him in?”

“Privileged information,” she retorted.

“Don’t make me kiss you again, Shea. We can’t afford the distraction. Later, yes. Now... no.”

She muttered something unflattering under her breath so he’d drop the kissing talk. Who talked kissing in a life-and-death situation? Then she sighed and slipped down onto the floor with her back against the wall. “Get low and I’ll fill you in.”

He took a seat on the floor, facing the two small windows and the door. Gun out. Cocked. Ready.

“We’ve got six guys working perimeter.”

“I deserved eight, but I’ll let that go. Four would have been the ultimate insult to a former member of the force.”

“Now that you’ve mentioned a potential second attacker, I wish it was ten,” she told him. “This is a big, dark area to keep an eye on, but it’s not like anyone can access this without wheels.”

“Anyone with hunting or tracking experience can do exactly that. We could have, but there wasn’t time. A car parked on a shoulder of a gravel road wouldn’t be seen this time of year. There’s nothing worth fishing for mid-summer, but it’s a hunter’s paradise in the fall so this is the perfect window of time.”

She wanted to swear.

She resisted the temptation.

Tony knew this area. She didn’t. He’d brought her here specifically because he was protecting her. Not the other way around. Right now she saw the difference in planning. He’d wanted her to be a needle in a convoluted gravel road haystack.

Now the killer was the needle and that much harder to track.

“Why didn’t you guys simply tell me what was going on and bring me into the inner sanctum?”

“Not protocol.”

He rolled his eyes. “You follow protocol 24/7, Shea? Because I bet you don’t.”

“I like keeping my job so I only bend rules when it saves lives. Although I will admit that our sensibilities might have been skewed this time. Your fault.”

His brows shot up. “Mine? How?”

“Your stubborn nature is well-known. We acted accordingly.”

He almost smiled. “That would be Buddy’s take. You confirmed it?”

“Well, you wouldn’t take me to the dance and I had to go stag while all the popular girls had dates, and it wasn’t like you didn’t like me...”

“You were seventeen. I was twenty-three. That would have sent every tongue wagging for a fifty-mile radius.”

He was exaggerating the mileage, but correct in his assessment. Six years was a big difference then.

Not so much now.

She squashed that thought the minute it came to her.

She had a life. A job she loved. A city she’d sworn to protect and defend.

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