Rough and Ready (More Than A Cowboy Book 2) by Vanessa Vale

Author:Vanessa Vale [Vale, Vanessa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-15T18:30:00+00:00

16

HARPER

My tires were flat. I couldn’t miss it as I walked up to my car in the parking garage.

It was Christmas. While everyone else on the flight was upbeat and cheerful, headed to visit family, I knew I was returning to an empty apartment. No big holiday dinner. No mistletoe or stockings, no Norman Rockwell get-together. No, I came out of customs and didn’t find grandparents with glittered posters waiting for me. Instead, I found a special gift, my destroyed tires. Not just flat, but slashed. If that wasn’t a sign that Cam was out of jail, I didn’t know what was.

I should’ve spent the flight thinking about the conversation with Reed. I had no doubt he’d be really good at phone sex. Even better at the real thing. What he’d wanted me to do… it still made me hot.

But instead of thinking about his big hands on me, I’d thought about Cam, and rightly so. I’d had eight hours to watch movies and stew. He was out of prison, and I had no doubt he’d be visiting me soon enough. I just hadn’t expected him to slash my tires. I sighed, debating what to do about it.

“We’ve been waiting for you.”

I spun on my heel, my fingers slipping from the handle of my wheeled suitcase, and it fell to the ground in the airport long-term parking garage. The sound of metal on concrete echoed in the huge structure.

My heart leapt into my throat at the sight of the two men. I’d never seen them before, but I knew who they were. Who they worked for. They wore thick puffy coats and black caps, their breath coming out in puffs of white. They couldn’t be much older than me, much older than the two who’d tried to assault me in the elevator.

It was much colder here than in London, but I was sweating.

I glanced around, saw other people on the far side of the garage. A car went down the ramp behind me. It was early afternoon, so the space was well lit, well used, but still, they could harm me if they wanted. I took a step back. Then another. They were well out of reach, but with a line of cars at my back, they could easily grab me.

“You had to come home on Christmas, didn’t you? My mother’s going to kill me for being late for lunch.” The guy on the left glanced at his friend, who nodded his head in agreement.

“What do you want?”

“We don’t want anything.” The guy on the left added, narrowed his eyes. “We’re here to give you some advice.”

I couldn’t breathe. Couldn’t think. Just stare into their eyes. Eyes that seemed to have no soul.

“There are cameras,” I blurted out, pointing toward the stairwell I’d come out of.

“We’re just having a conversation,” the same guy said, his hands out in front of him as if he wanted me to come in for a hug. Since I knew that wasn’t the case, it

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