The Value of Valor by Lynn Ames

Author:Lynn Ames [Ames, Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Thrillers, Romance, Lesbian, Gay, Suspense
ISBN: 9780984052165
Google: sB2BRAAACAAJ
Amazon: 098405216X
Publisher: Phoenix Rising Press
Published: 2010-03-01T22:50:34+00:00

Kate didn’t want to risk going into a store and being recognized. If CNN was reporting her death, her face would be plastered all over the television for the rest of the day. Barbara had said Peter was looking for her and would call in. Assuming he’d done so, it was likely he was on his way to Phoenix already.

She gauged the passengers as they waited for their luggage at baggage claim. Finally, she found what she was looking for. She watched as a tall, gangly teenager standing off by himself pulled a set of keys out of his pocket. He was clearly waiting for his luggage.

Casually, she approached him, watching as he openly appraised her.

“Hi,” she said, giving him her most seductive smile.

“Um, hi,” he answered awkwardly, standing up a little straighter.

“Waiting for your luggage?”

“Yeah.”

“Vacation?”

“School break.”

“Ah. Hey, I wonder if you could help me out. I’m in a bit of a bind here.”

“Sure.”

Kate was certain the boy would walk to Egypt for her if she asked.

“My luggage got lost and my car keys were inside. I wonder, if you’ve got a car, if you could drop me in Scottsdale.”

“Absolutely. My parents left my car in the short-term lot this morning.”

Kate hated lying and hated worse playing with the boy’s hormones, but she really had no choice. She waited with him for his luggage to arrive and followed him to the parking lot.

She folded herself into his beat-up Chevy Camaro and gritted her teeth as he drove like a maniac on 44th Street.

“Do you live here?” he asked.

“Part of the time,” Kate lied. She had told him her car keys were in her lost luggage; if she told the truth now, he would know she’d been lying before. To deflect any further questions about herself, she changed the subject. “Where do you go to school?”

“Back East. I’m sure you wouldn’t have heard of it. It’s a small, liberal arts college in Vermont.”

Kate couldn’t believe it. This could only happen to her. “Let’s see, there aren’t that many small liberal arts colleges in Vermont…Bennington, St. Michael’s…But you look smarter than that.”

She pretended to size him up, which made him blush. “Middlebury.”

The boy looked over at her, astonished. “You know it?”

“Yeah, a little bit.” She was nervous. She was one of the college’s more recognizable alumni; was it possible he didn’t know who she was?

“What’s your major?”

“Biology with a minor in geology.”

Kate breathed a sigh of relief. The fact that he was a science nerd worked in her favor. “What year are you in?”

“I’m a freshman.”

“What do you want to do when you get out?”

“I’m not really sure yet. I just think the sciences are cool.”

“You can pull over here.” Kate pointed to a spot by the curb at the intersection of McDonald Drive and Invergordon, around the corner from her destination. She didn’t want the boy to take her all the way to the mountain. The less he could figure out, the better.

“Are you sure?”

“Yep. Thanks.”

“Okay.”

As she was getting out, she asked offhandedly, “Can I trouble you for a couple more things?”

“Sure.

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