Game On (20 page)
She blew out her breath in frustration and sagged back against
the seat, making no protest when he shifted gears and pulled the truck back onto
the highway.
“Fine,” she conceded, trying to sound as if she still
maintained control. “You leave me no choice but to take you with me.”
He flashed her a swift grin. “No kidding. So where to?”
“Take the next turnoff, and follow the signs to Spotted
Canyon.”
“Okay then,” he murmured, almost to himself. “This could still
work out okay. We’re still headed in the general direction of Paradise Valley.
I’ll just drop you off wherever it is you’re going, and then I’ll head to my
cabin.”
Maddie almost choked on the spurt of semihysterical laughter
that burst forth before she quickly composed herself. She couldn’t believe he
was still preoccupied with reaching his cabin. She didn’t respond, but instead
stared resolutely through the windshield, determined to ignore him.
“So,” he continued conversationally, “what’s a nice girl like
you doing in a situation like this?”
Maddie slanted him one look of warning before turning her
attention back to the road. She pointed to a turnoff that was barely discernible
in the distance.
“Take this next right.”
Colton looked at her in surprise. “You sure it’s this one?”
It was a dirt road, surrounded on either side by brush and
rocky terrain. Maddie knew that it wound steadily upward into the foothills. It
had been several years since she’d traveled it, but there was no doubt in her
mind this was the correct road.
“Yes, I’m sure. Now do you mind if we don’t talk, and just
drive?”
“Sure.”
She breathed a sigh of relief when they turned onto the dirt
road, one of hundreds of narrow, rutted routes that twisted their way through
the hills.
When she had first boarded the Greyhound bus back in Elko, she
had planned on traveling straight through to Reno. She would figure out how to
get her brother back once she got there. But then, of course, she’d made the
stupid, stupid mistake of taking this man hostage. She’d been formulating a plan
on how to come up with the cash she needed, and it involved gambling, but she
couldn’t very well waltz into one of the casinos with this man strapped to her
side. She’d been in near despair as to what her next course of action should be,
when he’d mentioned a cabin in Paradise Valley.
It was then that she knew what she had to do.
Copyright © 2014 by Karen Foley
ISBN-13: 9781460325490
GAME ON
Copyright © 2014 by Nancy Warren
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