Page 30 of Lone Star Target

Even though the kiss was still raging on, she managed to make a sound of pleasure. A sound of need. And the delightful sensation took on an urgent edge. Demanding more and more and more.

She sated that edge by doing some touching of her own, sliding her hands down his back. Drawing him yet even closer. He did some maneuvering of his own by pulling her onto his lap.

That edge cheered.

But Jace stopped.

There was so much need in his eyes. So much heat. And she knew if she just touched her mouth to his, that would be enough for the edge to take over. No going back from that kind of push.

Kit forced herself to remember the lousy timing. Forced herself to remember the whole consequences of the loss of focus. Her arguments were good.

However, she was quickly losing this battle.

Then, Jace’s phone rang.

That seemed to snap them both back and gave them a much needed jolt of restraint and common sense.

Because it could be word about the ransom demand.

She quickly moved off his lap so he could take out his phone. Not an easy task what with his erection pressing hard against his zipper.

“It’s Ruby, and she wants a video call,” he relayed, and he put the call on the monitor while Kit tried to steel herself up for whatever she was about to hear.

When Ruby appeared on the screen and spoke, Kit realized she hadn’t steeled herself up nearly enough. The woman said four words that shook Kit to the core.

“SAPD found a body.”

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Chapter Ten

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Because Jace was still sitting right next to Kit, he felt the muscles in her arm go stiff. He was having a similar reaction, too, but he didn’t voice the thoughts of his worst-case scenario.

That Brandon was dead.

Jace didn’t want to even say the words, knowing it would rip Kit apart, so he just waited for Ruby to continue.

“It’s the cop assigned to guard Marvin,” Ruby added a heartbeat later. “Officer Mike Waylon. He’s dead.”

Jace mentally repeated all of that, and while it was a relief to hear that the body wasn’t Brandon’s, a police officer was still dead.

“Murdered?” Jace asked.

“Yes,” Ruby verified. “He died from a single gunshot wound to the head at close range. His lieutenant sent someone to the safe house to check on him when he didn’t respond and found him.”

“And what about Marvin?” he pressed.

“Missing. At this point, we don’t know if Marvin was responsible for the officer’s death or if someone learned the location of the safehouse, barged in, killed the cop and fled with Marvin.”

Hell.

Either of those could have happened.

And that brought this right back to Trevor and Ramsey. They had motive for getting to Marvin. If it was either of them, it was possible the man was dead.

But why not just kill him on scene the way they had Officer Waylon?

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