Renegade by Anna Schmidt

Author:Anna Schmidt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2019-05-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Once they were inside his office Cody deliberately took his seat at the desk, indicating Lily should sit across from him. But as usual, Lily did as she pleased, and it pleased her to pull her chair next to his as he laid out the notes he’d made after the meeting with Ty Drake. The kisses they’d just shared still clung to his lips, and he could still feel the light touch of her tongue tracing his ear, feel the outline of her body pressed to his as they’d hurried away from the hotel. Add to that the fact that he could practically see the flashes of desire that flew between them as she sat only inches away, drawing their bodies closer, and he understood how great a mistake he’d made in allowing her to come here with him.

His bed was not ten feet away.

He stood so suddenly that Lily jumped.

“What?” she asked, her eyes wide with expectation.

He moved to the map of the territory, a safe distance from her, and pointed to the place where he and Nick had spied on Victor and his crony. “When we were in Santa Fe, Drake didn’t give us anything really solid. The break-in at La Casita was done at night with no witnesses.” He tapped the map several times. “We know Victor and the other man are holed up here.”

“Yes?”

“What we don’t know is if there are already others perhaps camped out here—or here.” With Lily in arm’s reach, he couldn’t think. His usually sharp mind was muddled. He had to come up with some way of getting Lily to agree to go back to the hotel before he started something they both might regret. “What I need to do is ride back out there and check the surrounding territory,” Cody proclaimed, making things up as he went along.

He began making preparations, grabbing a saddlebag from a hook and packing it with jerky and extra ammunition. He wasn’t lying to her, not really. Checking the area surrounding the abandoned cabin was the right move. He could hardly plan to thwart a robbery until he knew what he was up against. He was simply doing his duty—not running away from a pair of sparkling green eyes that had him thinking about the bed in the dark room just around the corner from where she sat.

“Tonight? You’re going right now?”

“Night is best. If there is anyone out there, most of them will be sleeping.” He added a couple of tin cans of beans and peaches to his bag, then took paper from a shelf and started writing a note. “I’ll be gone for a day or two. It’ll take at least that long to investigate all the canyons around there where men could hole up for a week or so. I’ll stop by Frank Tucker’s place on the way—he can handle things here in town. And here’s a message for Aidan.” He scribbled a note, folded and stuffed it in an envelope. “But not a word to anyone else, all right?”

He couldn’t look at her.

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