Harlequin Intrigue February 2014 - Bundle 2 of 2: Undercover Captor\Tennessee Takedown\Raven's Hollow by Cynthia Eden

Author:Cynthia Eden
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Ashley sat on Dillon’s bed while he shoved the folders he’d grabbed from his library into a duffel bag that was much like hers, except that his was camouflage-green.

“Are you absolutely sure Chief Thornton is okay with this?” Ashley asked. “I wouldn’t want you to lose your job or anything.”

He paused in front of her. “Do you remember the chief saying he had a long tradition of cooperating with the feds? Well, trust me, he’s never cooperated with the feds. He’s old-school, resents their interference. Me, I never had a problem with them, until now.” He turned and opened another drawer in his dresser.

“So he was speaking some kind of code then? When he talked about turning a blind eye and giving someone the runaround and you going on vacation, he was telling you to take off with me and hide me?”

“Pretty much.”

“But isn’t that illegal?”

“It violates the spirit of the law but not the letter. Agent Kent never got around to arresting you. And he didn’t serve you or anyone else with a subpoena or a warrant. So technically, all we did was have a conversation. I’m now on vacation, and I happened to take you with me. You’re a witness in an investigation whose life is in danger until we catch Luther Kennedy. So the chief can argue later that you’re just in protective custody.”

“Sounds dicey to me. I’d red flag that like crazy in an audit.”

He laughed. “Yeah, I probably would, too.”

He shoved a thin blanket into the duffel bag and zipped it closed.

“Dillon? Why are you helping me? All those things that man said about me... If it wasn’t happening to me, if he’d said that about someone else, I’d believe him. Why are you helping me, and why is the chief helping me?”

He plopped down on the bed beside her, making the mattress bounce.

“Honestly, the chief is probably responding more to Kent’s denigration of us country folk than to anything else. He doesn’t appreciate city slickers coming in here and acting like we’re a bunch of idiots because we talk slow and there’s only one red light in town. He’s protecting his investigation more than anything else. He’ll be pushing Chris and the others to figure out exactly what’s going on, hoping to show up the FBI and prove the local yokels can out-investigate the feds.”

“I guess that makes a little more sense than blind faith in me, since we basically just met. What about you? Are you helping me because you want to prove Destiny cops are as good investigators as federal ones? I’d appreciate your honesty.”

“My honesty?” His gaze slid away from hers and he stared toward the front window, but Ashley didn’t think he was seeing anything outside. His gaze was turned more inward, as if he was remembering something. Or someone.

“Honestly, I don’t know what’s going on, what you’re in the middle of,” he finally said, his voice low, halting. “My instincts tell me to trust you, that you’re innocent.

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