Wyoming Cowboy Ranger by Nicole Helm

Author:Nicole Helm
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-03-15T13:09:40+00:00

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JEN’S SCREAM ECHOED through the cabin almost in time with a crash against the window, but the minute her scream had pierced the air, Ty had lunged.

The window glass shattered above them, pieces raining down on his back. He thought he’d protected Jen from the brunt of it, thanks to the help of the curtain that kept most of the glass contained.

“Are you okay?” he asked, panicked that maybe something had shot through and reached her before he had.

“I’m fine,” she said, her voice muffled underneath him. “What was it? A bullet?”

Ty looked at the curtain. There was a slight rip. He checked around the trajectory of the shot and frowned at what he saw.

An arrow piercing the thick area rug. Not just a flimsy Boy Scout arrow, though. This was a three-blade steel broadhead, the kind used for hunting. Which explained its impact on the window.

The window. Ty rolled off Jen, crouched and waited for someone to try to come through the window. When nothing happened, he looked down at Jen.

She was sitting now but looked dazed. “An arrow,” she muttered. “That’s...weird.”

“A stupid, pointless stunt,” Ty muttered. Oh, it was an arrow that could do some damage, but he didn’t think that had been kill-shot aim. It was more scare tactics.

Ty got to his feet, done with these childish games. He flicked the safety off his pistol and strode for the door.

“Wait. Wait, Ty, there’s a note.” Jen crawled over to the arrow and cocked her head to read the piece of paper affixed to the back of the arrow.

Ty said something crude about what he could do with the note, but Jen crouched down to read aloud.

“Why don’t you come and find me?”

She wrinkled her nose, but Ty barely heard what she’d read aloud. Rage spread through him like a wildfire. He was nothing but heat and hate. She was bleeding. Just a little trickle from a spot on her cheek, but he’d make someone pay for that.

“I’ll find him,” he said, low and lethal. He reached the door, ready to jerk it open and start shooting. “I’ll—”

“Ty.” Jen’s gentle admonition did nothing to soothe the riot of fury and worry inside him, but it did stop his forward movement. “He wants you to.”

“Yeah, well, I’ll give him the fight he wants.” His hand was on the knob, but Jen kept talking.

“He doesn’t want a fight. He could have had that back in Bent.”

“He doesn’t want to hurt me, then, or he could have done that, too.”

“He wants to hurt you, but he’s playing a game. I don’t understand it, but it’s a game. Come and find me—he wouldn’t want you angrily going after him if he didn’t have a plan to take you down.”

Ty flicked the lock. “Let him try.”

“Use your brain,” Jen snapped with surprising force as she stalked over from where the arrow stuck out of the rug. She flicked the lock back in place and glared up at him. “He’s trying to mess with you, and has been this whole time.

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