Still The One (Family Stone #4 Jack) (Family Stone Romantic Suspense) by Lisa Hughey

Author:Lisa Hughey [Hughey, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romantic thriller, romantic novella, military romance, romantic suspense
Publisher: Lisa Hughey
Published: 2014-02-06T23:00:00+00:00

Seven

Bliss waited in the backseat of Shane’s car, a sleek, red Dodge Charger. She couldn’t do anything to speed things along. Jack and Shane completed the final shutdown for the plane, threw away their garbage, and closed the private hangar door to secret away the plane.

Jack Stone’s private plane. Another trail that Fernandez could trace back to Jack. If Fernandez was monitoring Stone Consulting the plane and their landing was already on his damn radar. She wondered what would happen if they just confronted the jerk. It would certainly get her away from Jack as fast as possible.

But she couldn’t do that until she had Maria back in custody.

And she just needed to keep focusing on those details, focusing on how they were going to find Maria, because if she let herself think about the look on Jack’s face when he’d revealed how much she’d hurt him, she’d likely start crying. Stupid.

Until last night after her dream, she hadn’t cried since her divorce years ago.

But with one sentence that completely came out of left field, he’d reduced her to the emotional mess she’d been after he left.

Yes, she had broken up with him. But he was already leaving. And she still remembered his stoic face when he’d boxed up his stuff and left for good. She’d cried for days.

Weeks, really.

Once he was done with Basic training all the way in bumfuck Michigan, she’d scoured news reports for any word about soldiers who had fallen. She’d lit candles at the chapel on campus. She’d prayed every day for him to stay safe. Literally for years, she had kept his safety front and center in her mind. Even though she’d been the one to turn him away and she’d done it for her own sanity. She’d still made herself crazy worrying about him.

Bliss clasped her hands in a prayer position and pressed them between her knees.

So how the hell had she ended up here?

Jack and Shane opened their doors, startling Bliss out of her thoughts.

The car shook as they slammed their doors at the same time. She’d keep it completely business. Ignore, ignore, ignore all the personal undercurrents. “Is the plane registered to your company?”

“Yeah. We’re out of luck.”

Damn.

“But I think I managed to persuade the airport operations manager to ‘lose’ the landing paperwork for a few days. So hopefully, no one will know we returned until we’ve got Maria. There’s no way to stop the public record from my flight yesterday, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Assuming Fernandez is keeping track, he’ll think I’m out of town.”

“Great.” An unfamiliar buoyancy filled Bliss. Maybe something was finally going their way.

“Where to?” Shane asked.

Bliss hesitated. The sunlight was gone. “I’d really like to visit the house where she was held. But there are no lights around the house, and the basement electricity was from a generator, so visibility would be nonexistent. It’s very isolated.”

“First thing tomorrow morning then?” Jack didn’t turn around to look at her while he spoke. As a matter of fact he hadn’t looked her in the eyes since he’d dropped his bombshell.

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