Harlequin Intrigue March 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2: The Deputy's Redemption\Deception Lake\The Ranger by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“Are you sure you can trust them?” Mallory fidgeted on the seat beside him, her restless gaze flicking back and forth between the twisting road ahead of them and the highway they’d left behind.

“Riley and Hannah are the closest thing I have to family.” Jack slowed the truck as they approached another curve in the road, missing Wyoming for the first time in a long while. He’d never liked the cold winters, escaping at age eighteen to follow his rodeo dreams in Texas and the Southwest and never really looking back. But the roads there were more or less straight and flat, the vista stretching out for miles ahead, as far as the eye could see.

Here in the Smokies, switchbacks were as common as the never-ending mist that often hid the rounded mountain peaks from view. Narrow shoulders and perilous drop-offs lurked around every bend, setting his nerves on edge as they navigated the road to Purgatory.

“That’s not really an answer,” she muttered.

“I trust them. They’re good people. And they both know a little bit about being under the gun.”

He felt her gaze warming him, but the road ahead was too treacherous to spare her a glance. She didn’t say anything else for several minutes, but he could swear he heard the cogs meshing in her brain.

“What?” he asked when the silence between them grew oppressive.

“Why were they under the gun?”

They had finally reached a relatively straight stretch of road, giving him the chance to slant a quick look her way. She’d kicked off her shoes and pulled her sock-clad feet onto the seat, her arms wrapped around her knees, keeping them tucked up to her chest. She reminded him of a porcupine he’d spotted once on a hike in the Teton Range, rolled into a defensive ball, all quills and jangling nerves.

He’d avoided injury on that surprise encounter, but he wasn’t sure he’d be so lucky this time.

“Which time?” he answered.

She swiveled her head, their gazes clashing for a second before he had to look back at the road. “How many times have they been in trouble?”

“Well, there was the time the serial killer who killed my sister went after Hannah,” he murmured, slanting a quick look her way to gauge her reaction. One auburn eyebrow rose a notch, but she didn’t comment. “Then there was the time when a South American drug cartel targeted her family for something one of her brothers did while he was in the Marine Corps.”

“You’re making this up.”

“And there was the time a terrorist took her brother and his wife hostage not far from here to flush out the wife’s brother.”

She dropped her feet to the floorboard. “Sinclair Solano. Right?”

“You’ve heard of him?”

“Hard not to—the big showdown took place up in Poe Creek. It was all over the news.” Her lips quirked. “Plus, Solano works at The Gates. Just got engaged to another agent.”

“Oh.”

“He credits his sister’s in-laws with saving his hide. So does Quinn.”

Jack nodded. “Hannah’s one of those in-laws.

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