THUNDER HORSE HERITAGE
by Elle James
Blurb
They once exchanged their wedding vows. Now he vows to keep her alive.
She'd
been his wife for barely a day and now FBI agent Tuck Thunder Horse was
responsible for identifying her body. So he was more than shocked when
Julia Anderson turned up very much alive-and on the run. Julia confessed
to witnessing a murder and now needs Tuck to help her stay alive...and
protect the baby he hadn't known she'd had.
Julia
and Tuck's marriage might not have lasted, but there was not time for
recriminations with a killer on their trail. As Tuck struggles to put
their painful past behind them he can't help but find himself
overwhelmed by his love for his little daughter...and his still-burning
passion for Julia. Unable to trust anyone but each other, they know
working together is the only way to safeguard their child. Could their
one-day marriage turn into a life-long adventure?
The thought of her sister lying in a
cold, dark morgue brought her back to reality with a dull thud against her
bruised heart. No, she had been right to leave and avoid falling deeper in love
with the man. Had she stayed with him, she’d have set herself up to suffer the
similar heartache of having lost her father and sister to the bureau.
She'd seen what it had done to her
mother, watched her as over the years she'd withered away, dying by inches
every day her husband was on active duty, and then fading slowly of a broken
heart once she lost him.
The sudden buzzing of her cell phone
jerked Julia out of her morose thoughts and back to the present. She grabbed
for the device and stared at the screen display. Blocked Sender.
Julia sat up and glanced at the
bathroom door. Should she answer or let it ring? She wished Tuck would walk out
at that moment and tell her what to do. But the shower continued on.
After the third ring, Lily woke and
let out a cry.
Her nerves jangled by the evening's
events and Lily's cries, Julia couldn't think straight. She pressed the talk
button and held the phone to her ear, her heart stopping, her vocal chords
frozen in her throat.
"Julia Anderson, everyone
thinks you're dead. But I know the truth." The raspy voice growled into
Julia's ear. "I also know what your sister sent you, before she
died."
"I d-don't k-know what you're
talking about," Julia lied.
"I have her cell phone. I know
about the video file. If you don't keep the file to yourself, and give me your
cell phone, you and your baby will end up just like her."
Julia's hand shook so badly, the
phone slipped from her fingers and fell to the floor. As if Lily sensed her
distress, her whimpers amplified into wails.
Tears welled in Julia's eyes and she
stumbled to her feet, staring down at the device at her feet as if it was a
snake coiled to strike.
"What's wrong?" Tuck stood
in the now open doorway of the bathroom, a towel slung around his hips, water
dripping off his body, pooling at his feet.
"The phone," Julia
answered in a stupor.
Tuck's jaw tightened. "Whose
phone?"
"Mine." She glanced down
at the seemingly innocuous phone at her feet.
"You didn't answer it, did
you?"
She nodded, her gaze shifting back
to Tuck.
A tick jerked in his jaw, his lips
firming into a thin line. "The killer?"
She nodded.
"What did he say?"
"He'll kill Lily and me if I share the
video with anyone."
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