Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense January 2021--Box Set 2 of 2 by Valerie Hansen

Author:Valerie Hansen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

The drive from Wasilla back south to Raven Pass was made in silence, and not the companionable kind. If Seth hadn’t already had hesitations about them going through with this undercover operation, he’d have them now. How were they supposed to work together in the wilderness for days, now that he’d ruined everything? She’d given no indication of wanting to start over, and yet that’s exactly what he’d asked her for. He’d made an impossible request.

Except it hadn’t felt like it, he admitted to himself as he followed the curves of the road around the tall cliffs of the Seward Highway. Maybe if he had really thought he was the only one who felt that way, he’d have been able to play it cool, not let his feelings show. But the way she’d looked at him, smiled at him…

He knew, deep down, that he was the only one who’d toyed with the idea of a second chance.

But it didn’t matter now. She’d said no; that was the end of it.

Now they had to work together in what was already an incredibly tense situation. Much as he had tried to call the whole thing off, he knew Ellie would just find a way to investigate on her own, and that would be even more dangerous.

They were in too deep to stop now; the only way past this case was through it.

Seth just dreaded what the next few days could bring. More than once he’d closed his eyes to fall asleep and been tormented by images of what could happen to Ellie if she kept investigating. The thought of her life being taken from her was unbearable. Unacceptable.

But it was a risk that came with what they were getting themselves into. And Seth hated it.

“You feel ready for tomorrow?” He finally broke the silence as they turned off the Seward Highway onto the road to Raven Pass.

She nodded. “I do. I know there are things I don’t know yet, probably things I don’t even realize I know, but I think I know enough that I can fake it till I make it.” She turned to him and smiled, but there wasn’t as much joy behind it as there had been earlier.

Had he caused her to lose that happiness? Or was something else bothering her?

“We should pack up tonight so that tomorrow we aren’t under so much pressure.”

Ellie shrugged. “I thought we could look back at news reports from three years ago, see if they list anyone the police interviewed and things like that. Maybe make a list of names that keep popping up.” It was grasping at straws, and they both knew it, but neither was sure how else to go about this. Seth had already looked into RPE online and tried to find police reports or anything else associated with them that implied they could be involved in something illegal, but had found nothing. When he’d mentioned that to Ellie she’d said she’d done the same, and also found nothing.

“Not a bad idea,” he said.

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