Hotshot Hero in Disguise by Lisa Childs

Author:Lisa Childs
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2022-11-23T16:44:42+00:00

Chapter 13

He shouldn’t have come here. Just being near her might have put her in danger. But he’d wanted to see her. No. He’d needed to see her.

To make certain that she was all right. That she wasn’t hurt like he had hurt other people he’d cared about. But she was scared. All the color had drained from her beautiful face, leaving her eyes wide and stark with fear.

“You left your door unlocked,” he said. He’d been scared when the knob had turned easily beneath his bandaged hand. He’d wondered if someone had broken into her place. But if someone had, it would have been to get to him.

Tammy had no enemies. Nobody wanted her dead. But they wanted her. At least he sure as hell did.

“You’re dead,” she murmured.

He shook his head. “No.” A ragged sigh slipped through his lips. “Not for lack of someone trying though...”

“But I—I heard the explosion,” she stammered.

He didn’t doubt it. Everyone but Rory had probably heard the blast.

“I saw the truck...” And she shivered. But then she was wearing only a thin silky nightgown, so she could have been cold.

“I wasn’t inside,” he said.

“But Stanley heard it start up...”

He shuddered at how close he’d come to dying in the explosion. “I hit the remote starter on the key fob.” If he hadn’t...

He would have been inside. “Remind me I owe Annie a big bone.” Hell, he owed her an entire skeleton—for making sure he hadn’t become one.

“Annie?”

“The dog kept jumping on me,” he said. “She wouldn’t let me get to my truck. It was like she knew...”

And maybe she had. Stanley had said she’d run after something in the darkness. The person who’d planted the bomb on his truck?

If only the dog could talk...

But he wasn’t the first hotshot who’d hoped that Annie could speak. If she could, she would have saved them a lot of trouble.

“Was she okay?” he asked. The dog had been knocked to the ground with him. But for a whimper of shock, she’d seemed fine though.

But he ached now. He wasn’t sure if that was because the blast had knocked him to the asphalt or because Tammy stood before him wearing nothing but that sheer silk nightgown.

She was so beautiful.

“Serena was going to take her to the vet to be checked out,” she said.

“Good.”

“Why didn’t anyone see you after the explosion?” she asked. “Where did you go?”

“I took off in Stanley’s car.” The teenager had left the keys in the ignition, which had been fortunate for Ethan.

“Were you chasing someone?” she prodded. “Or running away?”

He’d been chasing down a lead. But he had, inadvertently, run away. He grimaced at the twinge of guilt that struck his heart. “I shouldn’t have taken off,” he said, acknowledging the mistake he’d made.

Poor Stanley must have thought the worst. And so had Tammy.

She shook her head, swirling her streaked hair around her slender shoulders. “It was the right thing to do,” she said. “If you hadn’t...” She shivered again. “The person who set that bomb might have tried something else.

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