Protecting Tex by Susan Stoker

Author:Susan Stoker [Stoker, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stoker Aces Production, LLC
Published: 2025-03-08T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

Tex sat in the dark, that damn music continuing unabated, and once again cautiously probed the wound in his calf. It hurt like a motherfucker, but he thought the bleeding had finally stopped. Of course, that wouldn’t do him any good if he got an infection. The thought of losing his other leg made him almost sick to his stomach.

Then again, he had no doubt that Melody wouldn’t give a fig if he had one leg, one arm, or no arms. All she’d care about was him coming home alive.

Tex lay on his back and stared into the dark. He couldn’t see a damn thing, but he didn’t want to close his eyes. He racked his brain yet again, trying to figure out who could be behind this. He’d pissed off his share of people over the years, but he’d never felt as if he was in danger.

There was that time he’d crossed the New York Mafia, but he was fairly certain he’d managed to smooth things over there. It wasn’t as if he’d meant to send the cops straight into a huge gun-running scheme. All he was trying to do was bring home a missing teenager.

He’d also run afoul of the drug cartels in Mexico, after that thing with Khloe Moore and Raiden Walker down in Virginia, but he was under the impression that no one liked Pablo Garcia that much anyway. Thought he was a hot-headed, arrogant asshole. And considering how much time he’d done in prison in America, he didn’t have many contacts left south of the border when he’d been taken down for good.

Other situations flitted through Tex’s brain as he did his best to figure out who he’d angered enough to put him in this situation. And not only that—who was smart enough to pull it off. That was probably the better question.

Try as he might, Tex couldn’t come up with anyone from his past who stood out. But what this situation had done was hammer home that he needed to be far more vigilant about his and his family’s safety. He frequently worked with the worst of humanity, and he hated that there had been blowback. The only consolation was that the blowback had been toward him. Yes, Melody had been caught up in this hell, but he was more relieved than he could say that she wasn’t being held captive alongside him.

If his captor had truly wanted to torture him, that would’ve done it.

In fact, letting his wife go would be the man’s downfall. Melody was smart and tough as hell. She was probably banged up and hurt—which made Tex’s belly swirl in agitation—but she’d most certainly called in the troops. And while she didn’t know everyone he’d worked with in the past, his friends would know who to call.

The first person she probably called was Wolf.

Thoughts of his old friend made Tex smile. Thinking back to when he’d helped Wolf find his then almost-girlfriend made the smile fade. Caroline had been

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