Harlequin Intrigue September 2014 - Bundle 1 of 2: Maverick Sheriff\Dead Man's Curve\Snow Blind by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4603-4568-9
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

The sight of Alexander Quinn’s stony face among his dark-clad rescuers should have been a surprise, but over the past eight years, Sinclair had come to expect the unexpected from his former CIA handler. He’d once joked that he could be stuck at the top of Mount Everest and it wouldn’t surprise him to see Quinn in Sherpa gear, climbing to his rescue.

“How’d you find me?” he asked Quinn as the older man left the others to meet him halfway.

“Tagged along with the Coopers.” Quinn glanced back at the others who had surrounded the fallen Cabrera soldier. “Want to catch me up?”

As Sinclair started to open his mouth to answer, he caught sight of Ava moving through the woods toward him, her hazel eyes blazing in the fading light. He turned toward her, bracing himself for her fury.

He was not prepared, however, when she launched herself at him, wrapped her arms tightly around his waist and pressed her face to his chest.

He curled his arms around her, his heart pounding as she tightened her grip on his back and rubbed her nose against his collarbone.

“You stupid idiot!” she growled against his shirt, the sound so muffled he wasn’t sure he’d understood her.

“Nice to see you, too,” he murmured.

She lifted her face away from his shirt, her face glowing with a curious combination of relief and fury. “You were trying to get captured! Have you completely lost your mind? You know Cabrera will kill you on sight.”

“He’d kill you and Gabe, too. I wasn’t going to let that happen.”

“You’re lucky that man didn’t shoot you the minute he spotted you.”

“I didn’t figure he would. Cabrera likes to do his own dirty work when it’s personal.” He smoothed her damp hair away from her pale face. “And what the hell were you doing, following me through the woods like that? If you were in any shape to hike, you should have gone straight back to the motel and called the paramedics for you and Cooper.”

“You’re my prisoner, remember?” The warmth in her voice was as good as a smile to soften her words. In fact, he thought he heard a hint of exasperated affection in her voice.

“You may need to cuff me,” he murmured, deliberately provocative.

Her eyes narrowed slightly before she seemed to realize they weren’t exactly alone in the woods anymore. She looked at Quinn, who was watching them with a bemused expression.

“You don’t look much like the other Coopers,” she said to Quinn.

“That’s because he’s not one.” Sinclair bit back a smile at the way Quinn’s eyebrows arched at Ava’s acerbic tone. “Ava Trent, this is Alexander Quinn, former spook. Quinn, this is Special Agent Ava Trent with the FBI. I’m her prisoner, it seems.”

Quinn’s lips quirked slightly before flattening into a neutral expression. “I see.”

“Former spook?” Ava asked. “Let me guess. Your CIA handler?”

Even Quinn, with all his years of practice at inscrutability, couldn’t hide a flicker of surprise at her words.

Ava’s eyes widened as she looked back at Sinclair.

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