Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense December 2017--Box Set 1 of 2 by Lenora Worth

Author:Lenora Worth
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488019753
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

The next day, Brent was anything but happy. Christopher and Ethan had left to go check out Adriana’s ideas regarding where Garcia could be. With Trevor already gone undercover again and searching for Carmen, that meant they were down to four at the ranch—Colt, Austin, Ford and Brent.

There was also the chance that their numbers might drop even further. Vance wasn’t satisfied with their waiting at the ranch for Garcia to show up. He might send one of their group off to chase a different lead. Maybe the drug lord knew the Rangers guarded the place and that was what held him off. They walked a dangerous, precarious line between wanting to get their hands on Garcia and protecting his sister from him.

But what if he also knew they were spread too thin today?

Someone could be off in the distance across the river, watching them and reporting in to Garcia. Brent and his fellow Rangers remained outside, watching the perimeter for most of the unusually chilly day. When Adriana brought him a mug of hot coffee, he wrapped his hands around it.

“You shouldn’t be out here,” he warned. “But I appreciate it.”

Her eyes lit up. “You’re out here because of me. What else was I supposed to do? Let you freeze?”

He chuckled.

But her playfulness turned to a grimace. “Seriously, it can’t be good for you to be out here in the weather all day.”

“I won’t lie. I feel the cold all the way to my bones. But I’ll live. I’m here to protect you, so I’m going to need you to go back in the house and stay there, Adriana. Just until our Ranger numbers are back up. Please. Don’t leave the house again. Someone could take you out or harm you from a distance. You do understand that, right?” Add to that, you’re too much of a distraction for me.

She nodded and started back.

“And, at any moment, feel free to change your mind and let me take you to a safe house.”

“I don’t want to be caged like a prisoner.” Adriana kept going and didn’t wait for his response.

He could understand that she hated being locked away even though it would be in a safe house, when it was her brother who needed to be incarcerated. But if she was imprisoned in her own home anyway, why not go to a safe house?

That evening, he switched out with Austin for a warm meal inside with Inez. What a strange little family they all were, gathered during the holidays for extenuating circumstances beyond imagination.

Refusing to be served, he ladled stew into a bowl. “This isn’t necessary, you know.”

“I know,” Inez said. “You keep telling us that, and yet here you are, eating the stew.” Her eyes crinkled with her smile, accenting her warmth-infused eyes. “But I wouldn’t have it any other way.”

“Where is she?” Brent had hoped to see Adriana when he came to the house.

Inez gestured with her eyes to the ceiling above. “In her room, pouting, I think.

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