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Chapter One
“Now that we’re out in the middle of nowhere, crouched outside a house I’ve never seen, you want to tell lared over his right shoulder, through the inky mountain darkness, at bounty hunter R A Thorn
“Julio Marco’s trial starts next week No one can find the star witness”
“TellI don’t know” Cam clenched his fists, hard-pressed to keep his voice to a furious whisper “Without Curtis Lawton, the DA doesn’t have o free, and ”
“Yeah? I’ in like he pro close to fifty grand That’s not chue”
True, but at least Thorn wouldn’t have to explain to the victiled from Mexico and sold into slavery why Julio Marco, theto prison for a very long time, as promised Or why Curtis Lawton, the man who helped Marco, was nowhere to be found That would fall on Cam’s shoulders
“It wasn’t e Nelson needs to have his head exa Lawton’s bond, if you recall”
Thorn shrugged “I kneas a flight risk I had no doubt he’d do whatever necessary to avoid prison time and those unsavory pals of his who know he’s turned snitch But I’ve hunted him before That’s e’re here I found hiirlfriend’s brains”
“This her place?”
Thorn shook his head, the long ends of his golden hair brushing his wide, solid shoulders “His He irlfriends in to fuck them, and out once they’re history I did a drive-by earlier today He’s got a new hottie shacked up here Pretty, young thing Little, long brown hair, world-class ass Lawton has crappy taste in occupations but good taste in women”
Who cared what she looked like? “Can you please keep your dick out of a conversation for once?”
Thorn’s icy eyes h the darkness “Sure, Saint Cam As soon as the little woman makes her appearance, let’s see if you can keep your dick out of the conversation I’eous”
Right now, Cam cared about the fact that come next Monday, if Curtis Lawton didn’t live up to his plea deal and testify against Julio Marco, his former boss, two years of Ca Mexican Nationals who endured utter hell on earth after being guaranteed a golden ticket to the proured that Thorn couldn’t get his ether Why should anything be different today?
“Whatever” Cam felt free to roll his eyes in the dark “What’s the plan?”
“We wait As s I sure as hell wouldn’t”
That ithout saying Thorn constantly thought with his penis But he also never thought about the sa for hi SOB who couldon bad-boy temper and short on sensitivity and charm
“I don’t care if she’s Miss A anda criet me hot”
“You’re too picky It’s a et laid”
“It’s a et laid,” Cam countered “It’s so ih , , or do you want the coue fuck’”
“No one’s had the need to ask et off” Thorn bristled “I haven’t heard complaints”
“You don’t stay around long enough to know if there are any I know you’re never going to tell me your full name, but do you make every woman you nail call you by your last naal documents, Mr R A Thorn?”
“Fuck you They don’t need to know et off And I’m not there for a relationship It’s just sex” He scowled “Are we here to catch Lawton or hash out my personal life?”
Cam shook his head As ht The man’s fast-food sex life was none of his business It certainly wasn’t what he would have chosen, and he had suspicions that the big blond hulk was achingly lonely, but would never admit it And Cam couldn’t make him
“Let’s catch Lawton Do we know anything about his girlfriend?”