Page 63 of Unexpected Temptation
“Hey, Boss.”
“Troy, have you seen Amelia?”
Troy wiped his hands with the rag.“No, but that might explain the missing truck.”
“What missing truck?”At that moment, he understood the expression, “feeling like your stomach bottomed out,” because his heart and insides felt like they’d shrunk and solidified into one big ball of misery and terror.
“I was going into town to get that grain you ordered, but when I came out, it was gone.I’ve asked everyone if they knew where it was and were coming to see if you had, by chance, taken it for something.”
A feeling of dread, unlike anything he’d ever felt, hit him between the eyes, almost knocking him off his feet.Amelia had run from him.Somehow, she had come close enough to hear her sister without him knowing it.He thought back to what was said that might have upset her enough to run.
“Boss?Boss?”
Jaylen turned to his man and barked.“What?”
“Do you want me to go get the grain today or wait until tomorrow?I can use another truck.”
“Tomorrow.”
Troy nodded.“Is there anything else I can do?”
“Call me if you see Amelia.”
“Sure,” Troy said as Jaylen walked away.
Jaylen’s phone rang as he was walking in the door.He yanked it out of his front pocket.
“Amelia?”he half-yelled.
There was a pause.
“No.It’s Kane.What the hell happened up there?”
Jaylen fisted the phone so tightly he was surprised it didn’t explode in his hand.
“What do you mean?Do you know where Amelia is?”
“She showed up here a little while ago, distraught.She won’t talk about what happened.She just said her sister was there.She asked me if I would go to the cabin and get all her stuff and her car.”
“Like hell,” he snarled.“Hold her there.I’ll be right there.”
“But...”
Jaylen ignored him and tore out of the house.
His fist tightened around the steering wheel, and he gritted his teeth hard enough to make his jaw ache as one thought kept rolling through his head.She ran from him.
Dammit.She ran from him.He knew he was being irrational at that moment and tried to calm himself down as he drove down the mountain, because the last thing he wanted to do was scare her.But the more he thought about losing her, and because of her sister, made him visibly shake.
His first inclination was to pull her facedown across his lap and remind her with his hand against her ass, who and where she belonged.
He made it down his mountain in record time, slid to a stop outside of Kane’s, and was through the door a second later.
“Where is she?”Jaylen demanded and looked around for Amelia.
Kane moved out from behind the counter and held up a hand.“Whoa, man.Settle down, or you’re going to scare her.”
Jaylen’s eyes pierced Kane’s.“Don’t fuck with me.Tell me where she is?”
