Fugitive by Shirlee McCoy

Author:Shirlee McCoy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2013-09-19T04:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

“Are you sure she lives here?” Laney asked as Taryn parked in front of a tiny bungalow sandwiched between two run-down Victorians.

She sounded doubtful.

Logan felt the same way.

He leaned past her and stared at the unassuming house.

It was not a place that either of them would have expected to find Mildred Mackey. She’d always been into opulent, showy things. Money had been her addiction, and she’d craved it like other people craved alcohol. When Logan had heard that she’d remarried, he’d assumed that she’d married money and was living in a grand house in an upscale neighborhood.

The little bungalow was anything but that.

“It looks as if the mighty have fallen pretty far,” Taryn said, a hint of amusement in her voice. Aside from the gun she’d concealed under her coat, she could have been anyone, with her hair pulled into a ponytail and a perpetual smile on her face. A purplish scar peeked out from beneath a heavy fall of bangs—the only sign of the dangerous life she lived.

“She must have been in even more desperate straits before if this is what she married into. Are you ready, Laney?” Logan asked. She’d spent the twenty-minute ride in silence, her muscles so taut he’d wanted to knead the tension from them. He hadn’t.

“I think so.” She stared out the window and seemed as reluctant to look in his eyes as he was to touch her.

Kissing her had been a big mistake, but he couldn’t afford to let it muddle either of their thinking. Not when there was so much at stake. He wouldn’t allow himself to be distracted.

Even if he could smell strawberries and sunshine in Laney’s hair every time he got close.

“If you don’t want to do this—” he said.

“I want to. I’m just not sure that I’m ready to.”

“You’re going to be fine.” He touched her arm, and she finally met his eyes. Fear. Determination. He saw them both in the depth of her gaze.

“Here’s how this is going to play out,” Seth grumbled. “Taryn will escort Laney to the house. Logan and I will stay here.”

“I don’t like that plan.” Not when Laney looked terrified, and not when he wasn’t sure what she’d find in the tiny house. Had Mildred changed? Or was she the same sadistic abuser she’d been thirteen years ago?

He didn’t even need to ask.

A tiger didn’t change its stripes.

“Tough.” Seth’s gaze was on the house, and Logan didn’t think he expected to be argued with. He seemed like the kind of guy used to calling the shots.

So was Logan.

That might be a problem.

“Says who?” As far as Logan recalled, they’d never discussed the plan, and he wasn’t going to walk blindly into it because Seth said he should.

“Me.”

“Now that you’ve had your say, I’m going to explain the way that I think things should go. You escort the ladies inside—”

“I’m surprised, Logan. I didn’t take you for one of those he-man types who believe that a man can do a better professional security job than a woman,” Taryn interrupted, still smiling.

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