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She sed hard "Sunday is yard work day so fun stuff," she said jokingly, hoping her voice sounded light

He was silent for a long moment "I’ll pick up your usual then See you in a couple hours" Harrison disconnected before she could respond

With clammy hands, she put her phone in the center console For aback to nor up on her Feeling paranoid, when she pulled up to a stoplight she popped off the back of her phone to see if Harrison had planted a tracker or soh tech equiph

Adjusting her wig and hat, she took a few deep breaths She still had oneto take care of then she had to drop off Pao hory with her over the way she’d been acting the past feeeks, but she had a feeling that she could convince hi on the kitchen table for hiot home That had never failed her in the past And God knew she could use so to leave hi to, she wanted to take even more memories with her She still wasn’t positive that she needed to leave, and if she was stronger she’d already be gone Leaving Harrison, however, was almost impossible She selfishly wanted to stay, to tell hiether and juston over there?" Harrison growled at his brother Porter as he took a sharp turn Following his wife in one of his co now and ain

Porter grunted soible Then, "Hold on"

Harrison and Porter had taken two separate vehicles when following Mara and he’d left Porter back at that pawn shop in one of the worst sections of town The place had sounded fanized who it was because the guy was a low level gunrunner And that teruns out of the back of a car for the most part Harrison wanted to knohat the hell his wife had been doing there

Through the phone, Harrison could hear what sounded like Porter arguing with sorunts later, Porter was back on the line "You’re not going to believe what I found"

"What?"

"Give me a sec…" A moment later Harrison could tell that Porter was outside by the change in the background noise "I just found Manuel Sanchez naked and fucked up in his office because some puta, as he put it, shoved a uy--daood"

"Wait, what? Mara roughed up so to do with a woman at her shelter Maybe she’d been at that pawn shop to try and talk to an ex or so But that didn’t make sense Mara would have told hi it She also took a bunch of pistols" Harrison could hear the ding of Porter’s seatbelt reot into his truck "Manuel tried to say she robbed hi, his buddy told the truth She wanted weapons, and they planned to take herSo she kicked their asses and took the weapons instead"

Harrison was having a hard ti his h He’d showed her so, but to bring doo grown men? And she took a bunch of weapons? He didn’t want to spend any ti what-if scenarios with his brother Hell, he didn’t want to talk about this anymore He felt as if someone had slammed a two-by-four into his sto out two men, he wondered what else he didn’t know about her

"Thanks for the help, Porter I’ll let you know if I need anything else" Harrison disconnected before his brother could respond He was too da his oife for answers

Pushing aside the fact that he was tailing the woht, he focused on the task at hand He’d put a tracker on Mara’s car and in her phone--even if he’d felt scu it The tracker in her phone was damn near undetectable so on the off chance that she looked for one, it was unlikely she’d find it

Watching the s dot of her location, he shook his head as she took another left turn She was going in circles, which --and it only ht opened up a wholearound for half an hour, he realized she was finally ht she was taking Pamela’s car back to the shelter, but then she slowed and stopped Though he didn’t have a visual on her, he could see the address on his coe place Probably to stash the weapons she’d taken Fro Who the hell was this woer and raw pain surged through Harrison as he wondered if he really had er

Chapter 4

Mara steered her vehicle into the two car garage she shared with Harrison His truck was already there and that surprised her She’d hoped she would have so off her stash of weapons and disguise at a storage place, she’d returned Pahtailed it home All she wanted was a hot shower and some hot sex She desperately wanted to reconnect with Harrison, but she had a feeling the latter was out of the question considering Harrison’s attitude toward her during their last conversation And she didn’t have the energy to seduce hiht, even if she wanted him so badly her entire body ached with the need At least she didn’t have to cook The only silver lining