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

Gage felt his temper climbing again. Abby was going after the gold. He could see by the determined look in her eyes that nothing he said was going to dissuade her.

Gage was torn. The no-longer naïve side of him wanted her to stay home, where she would be safe. His selfish side wanted her to go with him. Hell, he wanted her in his bed.

“You don’t have any idea what can happen on a trip like this.”

“I’ve read everything I can find on the Superstition Mountains. I know how many people have died, how many die every year. Three men went missing in the summer a few years back. The sheriff finally had to call off the search and didn’t find their bodies until two years later. Most of the fatalities are people who go in without being prepared. That’s not going to happen to us—assuming there still is an us.”

She was right about that. He wouldn’t go in unprepared. He was good at what he did. Damn good. If anyone could keep her safe, he was the one.

His chest clamped down. Exactly what he had believed when he’d agreed to take Cassandra along.

He felt Abby’s hand on his forearm, saw his tendons straining. Her touch gently smoothed over the muscles, easing some of his tension.

“I know you lost someone, Gage, a woman you cared about, a woman named Cassandra Dutton.”

Gage said nothing.

“Did you love her?” She was looking at him with so much pity, he knew he had to tell her the truth.

“No. I wasn’t in love with Cassandra.” But selfish bastard that he was, he hadn’t ended things when he should have.

“But she was in love with you,” Abby guessed.

He glanced away, trying not to remember her sweet, trusting face. “She thought she was.” He scrubbed a hand over his jaw, felt the bruises on his knuckles and the roughness of his evening beard. “I didn’t love her, but that doesn’t make it any easier. Cassie’s dead because of me.”

Abby opened her mouth to ask him what had happened, but Gage just shook his head. “Subject closed. If you’re determined to go, I’ll take you. But you have to trust me to keep you safe. That means you do what I tell you.”

He wasn’t sure what he read in her face, but finally she nodded. “I’ll expect to have some input, but if there’s trouble, I’ll do what you say.”

“I want your word.”

With a resigned sigh, she nodded. “I give you my word.”

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER NINE

THE NIGHT WAS CLEAR AND DARK. A FAINT WIND RUSTLED THE LEAVES in the street, but the sound was muted by the Friday night revelers in the bars and restaurants of LoDo.