Tangled Threat & Hijacked Bride by Heather Graham

Author:Heather Graham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2022-10-17T19:35:09+00:00

Chapter 2

“Are you sure this is the right road?” Angie asked, growing anxious as the Suburban’s headlights exposed what looked more like a trail than a road through the pines.

Patrick turned onto it and started up the mountainside, the beam of the headlights bobbing through the dense woods that formed a wall on each side. “This might surprise you, but I know what I’m doing. Have a little faith, Angie.”

Faith. Faith wasn’t something she’d ever been strong on. She’d always depended on skill—and the survival lessons her father had taught her.

She tried to relax but couldn’t. The rutted road switchbacked upward like a jagged scar cut in the mountainside. The suffocating darkness of the thick pines pressed in on her. Overhead, the starlight glittered in the moonless sky above the pines, like an omen that her luck had taken a turn for the worse.

She squeezed the amulet in her wedding suit pocket, wishing she’d never laid eyes on Jack Donovan.

The pines suddenly opened, and in the clear, cold starlight, Angie saw that the road fell away into a deep, narrow gorge on her side of the car. A twisting ribbon of silver wound its way through the canyon below.

“Take a look,” Patrick said as he drove the Suburban along the road’s edge.

“Be careful!” She let go of the amulet in her pocket to clutch the grip handle over the door.

“Angie, I thought you’d appreciate this. It isn’t like you to be afraid.”

No, it wasn’t like her. Because she’d always been the one at the wheel. But she didn’t see him looking down into the canyon, either.

“I didn’t mean to scare you,” he said. “It’s just that you may never see the gorge again in starlight.”

She hoped not. She pressed back against her seat, staring straight ahead at the road. It seemed to climb ever higher up the mountainside.

Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed that Patrick’s knuckles were white from gripping the steering wheel so hard. Hadn’t Jack once told her a story about Patrick having a horrible fear of heights? So why would Patrick pick a place like this for their honeymoon?

“How much farther is the cabin?” she asked, regretting now that she’d let him talk her into this. How could the road into Missoula have been any worse than this?

Patrick sighed. “I thought you’d love this.”

She could hear the disappointment in his voice. “It’s spectacular. Just a little scary.”

“Only if you were to fall down in there.”

She shuddered at the thought and took one last look at the canyon, wondering again what Patrick had been thinking in bringing her here.

A short distance along, the road veered back into the trees, straightening a little but still climbing upward, then leveled out some. Patrick slowed, turned right onto a dirt lane that looked even less traveled. A half dozen turns through the trees later, Angie got her first glimpse of the cabin in the headlights.

“Rustic, isn’t it?” he said. “No phone. No electricity. We even have to pump our own water from the well out back.

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