Sinner's Game by Kenner J

Author:Kenner, J. [Kenner, J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Suspense, Contemporary, Mystery
Goodreads: 58164049
Published: 2022-02-15T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

“You doing okay?”

I lift my head long enough to glance at Ronan, who’s at least three feet above me. I cling tightly to the branch I’m using to steady myself, hoping I won’t rip the small tree out of the steep hillside, sending me tumbling into the dark below.

“I’m climbing up the back of a cliff so I can break into my own house,” I say. “I’m doing as well as can be expected.”

I hear his low chuckle. “You didn’t have to come with me.”

“Um, yeah. I kinda did. One, I don’t want to stay alone, even if your place is Fort Knox. But more important, I’m at the center of some freakish murder mystery, and no way am I just sitting back and letting other people figure out why. And by other people, I mean you.”

“Would it help if I say I’m sorry?”

“Did you do anything to set this in motion?”

“No.”

“Then you don’t need to say it,” I reply, struggling for purchase as I climb to the next position.

He extends his hand, and I take it, letting him tug me up the short distance to his side. I stumble a bit, and his hand goes around my waist, holding me tight.

“Steady. I wouldn’t want to lose you.”

I swallow, suddenly keenly aware of his proximity. I know he means lose me down the hill, but in that moment, I’m tumbling in an entirely different way, and I tell myself this isn’t real. I need to pull it back. My emotions are all out of whack, my adrenaline through the roof, and I’m locked in the embrace of this man that I have been crushing on for a very long time.

But it’s not real, and I know that. I know it. But despite all of that, I still want to fall into the ocean of his eyes.

“You steady now?”

I’m suddenly aware of just how tightly I’m clinging to him. I nod. “I should’ve gotten a place with a regular backyard.”

“But then the neighbors might see us breaking in.”

I meet his grin. “Well, there’s that.”

My home backs up against one of the more treacherous of the hills that rise above Laguna Cortez, and because of that, it doesn’t have a useable backyard, just a huge balcony that extends out over the hillside.

There’s a ladder that extends from the balcony to a small shed, though, and it’s to that shed that we’re climbing. “What do you expect to find in there?” I ask him, but he just shakes his head.

We’re moving again, and I’m relieved when we finally arrive at the concrete pad on which the shed is seated. My body aches, and I’m thinking that my regimen of jogging and yoga really isn’t cutting it.

The shed is locked, of course, but I have a key. I hand it to Ronan, and he slips it into the lock. Then he curses when nothing happens. “Are you sure that’s the right key?”

“It’s the key they gave me when I moved in. To be honest, I never tested it.

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