Trask laughed and held her close. “If you get lucky, we’ll be in Reno by morning,” he whispered against her ear.
“Trask!” Neva, holding a tired Nicholas in her arms, ran up to her brother-in-law. “Thank you,” she said, her joy and thanks in her eyes. Her smile trembled slightly. “Thank you for finding Nicholas.”
Trask grinned at Nicholas and rumpled his hair. “Anytime,” he said. “We good guys have to stick together, don’t we?”
“Right, Uncle Trask. Come on, Mom, you promised me an ice-cream cone.”
“That I did,” Neva said, shaking her head. “Now all I have to do is find an all-night drive-in. Want to come along?”
“Please, Uncle Trask?” Nicholas’s eyes were bright with anticipation.
Trask shook his head. “Another time, Nick.” Trask looked meaningfully at Tory. “Tonight I’ve got other plans. Something that can’t be put off any longer.”
Neva’s smile widened and she winked at Tory. “I’ll see you later,” she said. “Good luck.” With her final remark, she packed her son out of the hospital.
“So now it’s just you and me,” Trask said. “The way it should have been five years ago.”
“Senator McFadden?” A nurse called to him. “If you just sign here, you’re free to go.”
Trask signed the necessary forms with a flourish. “Let’s get out of here,” he whispered to Tory, gently pulling on her hand and leading her out of the building.
“You’re sure about this, aren’t you?” he asked, once they had crossed the parking lot and were seated in his Blazer.
“I’ve never been more sure of anything in my life,” she vowed. “I’ve had a lot of time alone to think. And even though I tried to tell myself otherwise, even as late as this afternoon, I discovered that I loved you. There was a minute when I thought you were dead…and…I can’t tell you how devastated I was. Thank God you’re alive and we can be together.”
He lifted his hands and held her face in both palms. “This is for life, you know. I won’t ever let you go.”
“And I won’t be running, senator.”
When his lips closed over hers. Tory gave herself up to the warmth of his caress, secure in the knowledge that she would never again be without the one man she loved with all her heart.
* * * * *
Ten years ago, he was a suspect in her parents’ murder. Now he’s back to protect the family he never knew he had.
DEA agent Theo Canton may have been the town bad boy but murder was never his MO. Too bad his girlfriend at the time didn’t see it that way. Now Ivy Beckett isn’t just the girl who broke his heart—she’s the target of a killer. Theo vows to keep the blue-eyed beauty safe, even as he meets the son she never told him about. But will it be enough to catch the perp and give their family a second chance?
Gunfire on the Ranch
Delores Fossen
CONTENTS
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight