Harlequin Intrigue July 2014 - Bundle 2 of 2: Hard Ride to Dry Gulch\Explosive Engagement\Sanctuary in Chef Voleur by Joanna Wayne

Author:Joanna Wayne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Maybe we should make it real...

Stacy had never gotten the chance to ask Logan what he’d meant before all hell had broken loose. She braced her hands on the dashboard as the car struck them again with such force that the SUV swerved off the road. It spun around, and her head struck the post next to her seat between the passenger side doors.

She screamed again as fear overwhelmed her.

Spots danced before her eyes, her vision blurring. She blinked to clear her mind—to focus—but her ears rang from the impact of hitting her head.

Gravel flew up behind them, pinging off the metal. Logan steered between trees. Metal crunched now as the side mirror twisted off and broke. Then he was back on the road, behind the car—his lights shining into the vehicle and illuminating two shadows.

“Are you okay?” he asked her, his voice gruff with concern. “Stacy!”

The urgency in his voice jolted her. “I’m okay,” she said, even as her head throbbed with pain and her heart with fear. “Are you?”

“Oh, yeah,” he said. Excitement replaced his concern as he sped up. The pursued had become the pursuer. He struck the rear bumper of the car.

The gunfire hadn’t killed them, neither had those two bombs, but his driving might. He cursed, then sighed. “I can’t...”

Was the car faster?

“Why not?” she asked. She wanted this person stopped—wanted this all to be over.

“They probably have guns.”

So he braked and spun the SUV around, going the other direction. Stacy braced her hands against the dashboard as he careened around corners, taking an on-ramp well over the posted speed. They were on the freeway only moments before he crossed four lanes to an off-ramp. The car tires squealed as he careened around that sharp turn.

Feeling sick, she turned toward him and noticed a slight grin on his lips. “You’re enjoying this,” she accused him.

How was that possible when she had never been so scared? Except maybe when they’d found the bomb or been shot at...

“The driving, yes,” he admitted.

He was quite the expert driver. He’d handled the other car slamming into them, and he’d certainly lost that car now. There were no headlights behind them. Not even any taillights ahead of them.

“I haven’t enjoyed getting shot at or defusing bombs.” The grin left his face, replaced by a tension that had a muscle twitching in his cheek. “I haven’t enjoyed any of that.”

“I haven’t,” she said. “But I thought you would be used to getting shot at and nearly blown up...what with being a bodyguard now and a cop before that.”

He sighed. “Just because I’m used to it doesn’t mean I enjoy it.”

“Then why do you do it?” she asked. “Why would you go into private security?”

“To keep people safe,” he said.

“Then why didn’t you stay a police officer?” she wondered. “They keep people safe.”

He shook his head. “No. They don’t.”

Was he thinking again of Robert Cooper, of the cop who hadn’t protected his partner, Logan’s father?

“The police show up after the fact,” he said.

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