Return to West Texas by Jean Brashear

Author:Jean Brashear
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2007-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

AS THE SUN NEARED the horizon, Eli shifted on the hard earth and groaned as his injuries made themselves known. His right deltoid burned—good thing he was left-handed. His ankle throbbed without mercy, but both were only irritants compared with his greater concern.

Gaby.

He could only hope that the levelheaded girl remained inside the woman, that she would not have tried to find him in the daylight hours for fear of being followed.

But the notion of her prowling around after dark scared the hell out of him.

She would remember the cave, he guessed, and go there first. But when she didn’t find him there, would she range farther?

He’d like to believe that she wouldn’t. The girl he’d loved, though, the one who’d refused to leave him on the side of the road, who’d persisted in visiting him daily at the hospital over Chad’s strong objections…

His only hope was that she’d become such a city girl that the high desert at night would frighten her, that a darkness so dense would be too great a contrast to the bright lights of the metropolis she now called home.

He cursed himself for not delaying long enough to explain the stakes to her the night before. She was not experienced at prowling around in the dark alone. When they’d met as kids, he’d waited for her behind the barn and been her guide. The moon was only a sliver tonight, and there were so many hazards lying in wait.

He’d planned to scout the rendezvous point he’d heard about from the men last night, before the third man had popped up, but his priorities had switched. There was almost a week left to make his own plans to document the next illegal shipment. Discover exactly what Chad was into.

He had to manage to return to the cave he somehow knew Gaby would visit tonight—

Before she endangered her life by leaving it to look for him.

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