Maverick Sheriff by Delores Fossen - Sweetwater Ranch 01 - Maverick Sheriff

Author:Delores Fossen - Sweetwater Ranch 01 - Maverick Sheriff [Fossen, Delores]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-09-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Before Cooper even made it to the hall, Jessa caught up with him. “You’re not really going out there, are you?”

Cooper nodded. “This guy isn’t giving up, and he needs to be stopped.” But he appreciated her concern. Not for himself, but for Liam. “I’ll have Tucker stay here with you. Some of the other ranch hands, too. They’ll surround the house and will have orders to shoot anyone who tries to get in.”

Jessa opened her mouth as if ready to argue with that, but finally shook her head. “Just be careful.”

Her concern took him back a bit, and he cursed that blasted kiss that had changed everything between them.

“You and Liam stay away from the windows,” Cooper added, and he hurried out.

He didn’t waste any time—he called Tucker and filled him in so his brother could start getting the ranch hands in place. Thankfully, Tucker was already inside. And Rayanne. Cooper didn’t like the idea of relying on his surly sister for anything, but she was a deputy sheriff, and if it came down to it, she’d hopefully stop a killer from getting into the house.

Cooper hurried downstairs to his office and armed the security system, using the keypad by the front door. He’d be heading out soon, but before he did that he needed to check the cameras they had positioned throughout the property. He might get lucky and spot this guy.

Nothing was on the first camera in the part of the pasture where Arlene had spotted the Jeep. The camera angle was wrong for him to see the vehicle itself, but he had no doubt that it was there.

How far had the driver managed to get, and where the hell was he?

He saw some ranch hands on the second camera. They were hurrying toward the house. Good. As soon as they were in place, he’d be free to leave.

His father was on the third camera. Roy was also heading for the house, and he was armed with a rifle. Arlene, too. Even Seth was outside the guest cottage, and he was talking to one of the ranch hands, no doubt to find out what was going on.

But there was no sign of the man who’d driven that Jeep.

Cooper remembered the other attack at Donovan’s. The guy had fired shots from the top floor and the roof there. He quickly panned the camera around as much as he could, and saw something that caused his stomach to clench.

There, on the roof of one of the barns, was a guy dressed in clothes that would have blended in with the other ranch hands—jeans, boots and a cowboy hat. The guy had a scope rifle next to him, but he didn’t aim it at the house. Instead, the man aimed some kind of handheld device.

Cooper couldn’t be positive, but judging from the way he was moving and adjusting it, the device was some kind of thermal-imaging equipment. If he was right, the idiot could use it to pinpoint not just how many people were inside the house but their exact locations.

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