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Chapters (50)
  1. Also by
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. CHAPTER ONE
  5. CHAPTER TWO
  6. CHAPTER THREE
  7. CHAPTER FOUR
  8. CHAPTER FIVE
  9. CHAPTER SIX
  10. CHAPTER SEVEN
  11. CHAPTER EIGHT
  12. CHAPTER NINE
  13. CHAPTER TEN
  14. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  15. CHAPTER TWELVE
  16. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  17. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  18. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  19. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  20. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  21. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  22. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  23. CHAPTER TWENTY
  24. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  33. CHAPTER THIRTY
  34. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  42. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  43. CHAPTER FORTY
  44. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  45. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
  46. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
  47. CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
  48. CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
  49. EPILOGUE
  50. Teaser Chapter

The gunman used the same technique as before, dropping a thin loop of nylon over her wrists and pulling it snug. Ellie glanced around, praying one of the men would ride in, then praying he wouldn’t. She didn’t want anyone getting killed.

Smoke was whining, jumping up and down on Billy’s legs, sensing the boy’s fear.

“Tell the dog to stay. Do it, or I shoot him.”

“Sit, Smoke! Stay there, boy. Stay!” The dog sat down at Billy’s feet.

“Be stupid to yell for help. You’ll only get someone killed.”

Billy’s mouth thinned, but he nodded.

“Now get going.” He shoved Ellie forward. “Walk out the door at the back of the barn and head up the trail. Take the path to the right and follow it to the top of the hill.”

Ellie started walking. The gunman shoved Billy, and he stumbled into line behind her. “I’ve got the gun pointed at the back of the kid’s head,” the man said. “Either of you try anything, the boy is dead.”

Ellie kept walking, out through the back door of the barn, her legs trembling as she took the fork in the path to the right. She heard the barn door slam shut, locking Smoke inside so he couldn’t follow. She wondered what Kade would think when he returned and found her car still there with all of her stuff inside.

She bit back a bubble of hysteria. Kade would probably think she’d run off with Jonas Murray.

CHAPTER FORTY-ONE

CHAPTER FORTY-ONE

KADE SPENT THE MORNING REPAIRING THE DIRT ROAD UP TO THE summer camp. Clearing weeds, removing fallen trees, using a chain saw to cut the dead logs into firewood hadn’t done a damn thing to keep his mind off Ellie.

An image of her pretty face rose in his head, her big green eyes and fiery auburn curls, her sexy curves, the passionate woman he couldn’t get enough of. He remembered the way she’d slid her arms around his neck and smiled up at him. How was your day? Simple words that banished his troubles and filled his heart with warmth.

Ellie. She was the best thing that had ever happened to him, and he was letting her walk out of his life. Letting her walk away because he was too much of a coward to tell her the truth. Tell her he was in love with her. That the reason he had behaved like such an ass was because he was afraid of losing her to another man.

But Ellie was nothing like Heather. She was honest, and she was loyal. She was there when he needed her, always stood by him, and never let him down.

She was everything he wanted and more.