Page 14 of When He Fights
Impossible to forget that.
“I was waiting for you.”Deep.Dark.Rumbly.The kind of voice that would make a woman quiver in all the right places.
She ignored the quiver.Not going down that path right now.Her chin notched up.“And you knew I would be coming this way because…?”
He stared at her.
“Because you’re psychic?”Ana threw into the silence.“Because you just had some massively wild hunch?Because?—”
“Gray called me.Told me you were running.I couldn’t let you leave.It’s not safe for you to run on your own.”
She waited for more.Only there was no more.“Howdid you know I was coming this way, now?”There were a dozen ways she could have fled from her house.How had he known that she would be on this particular road, heading for this intersection?
He sighed.His hands finally dropped from his massive chest.He reached down, unzipped one of the pockets in his cargo pants, and he hauled out a phone.“I tagged you, sweetheart.”His fingers swiped over the screen, and then he turned the phone back toward her.She saw a small, glowing dot on that screen.
She was the dot?Oh, no.“Stop.”An angry snarl because she was at her limit.Too much had happened in way too short of a time.
My ex escaped prison.
He’s coming after me.
And Kane Harte is blocking the road so I can’t escape.
He’d also…tagged her?Since when?Anger burned in her gut.“How long have you been tracking me?”Had he been, ah, tagging her the entire time?For the last two years?
“Got in town before the sun rose.As soon as I learned that Logan had escaped and was after you, I came here.”
Her breath shuddered out.“You knew where I was?”
“I’ve known exactly where you were since the moment we parted ways.”
No, no, that made zero sense.“Grayson said my location was private.Confidential.I left everything behind when I moved here.New name.New life.”Her parents had both died when she was in college.She’d had no close relatives.No family that would look for her.She’d vanished after Logan’s trial.
He glanced around the empty intersection.“We should probably take this conversation somewhere else before some bozo decides to come plowing through and hit my bike.”
“Well, your bike is parked in the middle of the road so…yeah, you should move it.”She motioned toward him, waving her hand broadly.“Crank it up.Drive away.Go.Hurry.Wouldn’t want that precious bike to get damaged.It looks really expensive.”
He did not move.“I knew you were living in Gulfport.I was the one who suggested the location to Gray.”
Her jaw nearly hit the ground.
“You told me that you liked the beach.That you wished you could see it every day.Well, you have a rental house with direct beach views, so I figure that’s pretty close to your dream, isn’t it?”
She got a really bad, twisting feeling in her gut.
“I knew you were living here, but I didn’t tag you until I arrived in town.Gray had asked me to stand in the shadows until I got word from him.I was worried you’d flee before that word came from him.Couldn’t risk you going out on your own, so I tagged your vehicle while you slept.”
Rage almost choked her.Two years.Two years of dreaming about him, and he’d known the entire time exactly where she was.And he’d just…taggedher Jeep while she slept.
“A few minutes ago, I received a call from him telling me that you were coming in hot.He doesn’t want you leaving town.”
“So you made yourself into a roadblock.Sure.Why not?Totally logical.”No, it was not.Not in any world.And she was done.So very done.Ana turned on her heel and marched back toward her waiting Jeep.A car was heading toward the stop sign near her Jeep.A red Mustang.She could see the frowning face of the driver.“I’d suggest you move,” she tossed over her shoulder at Kane.
Kane is back.Kane knew where I was the entire time.
Behind her, she heard the snarl of the motorcycle’s engine as it fired to life.The loud sound had her heart racing even more.She hurried to the Jeep and jumped inside.The Mustang whizzed by her and snaked through the intersection.
Kane had already moved his ride.
