Desperado: Deep in the Heart, book 2 (2013)
“It didn’t seem right. She was marrying someone else. He couldn’t see himself calling up a woman who had proclaimed her love to someone else.
When he caught himself picking up a whisky bottle for a generous pour, he remembered Sloan’s tortured face and the picture he kept hidden in his desk. Cody put the whisky bottle back in the cabinet, untouched. In no way was he in as bad a shape as Sloan.
The phone rang, and he leaped to jerk it off the cradle, glad for something to do. “Yeah?” “Hera’s over... at my house breathing fire,” Sloan told him. “Wants to know where her groom has disappeared to.” Cody’s eyebrows shot up. “I’m not hiding him over here.” “I don’t think she’s worried about that. She thinks he may have gone to California to visit Stormy.” Nausea curled in Cody’s gut. If Wrong-Way had done that, he’d kill him. He’d kill him for being that much of a sniveling coward to say he’d marry Hera and then run off to another woman.MoreLess
When he caught himself picking up a whisky bottle for a generous pour, he remembered Sloan’s tortured face and the picture he kept hidden in his desk. Cody put the whisky bottle back in the cabinet, untouched. In no way was he in as bad a shape as Sloan.
The phone rang, and he leaped to jerk it off the cradle, glad for something to do. “Yeah?” “Hera’s over... at my house breathing fire,” Sloan told him. “Wants to know where her groom has disappeared to.” Cody’s eyebrows shot up. “I’m not hiding him over here.” “I don’t think she’s worried about that. She thinks he may have gone to California to visit Stormy.” Nausea curled in Cody’s gut. If Wrong-Way had done that, he’d kill him. He’d kill him for being that much of a sniveling coward to say he’d marry Hera and then run off to another woman.MoreLess
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