“You got a permit for that cannon, Miss Harper?”
“You got a warrant to be on my land?”
“Don’t need a warrant to chat.”
She shoved the nine millimeter into the band of her pants with an ease that verified her comfort level with it.Considering her other nine millimeter was in custody at BSPD, I wondered how many weapons she had in her cabin.
“How’s your arm?” I asked.
“Fine.”
“Ribs?”
“Fine. Did you call?” She asked, although it wasn’t a question as much as a thinly veiled message that she didn’t like me showing up unannounced. Got it.
“Are you busy?” I responded.
She stared at me with a pair of slitted eyes and for a moment, I thought she was really going to ask me to leave and not come back without a warrant. Finally?—
“Settle,”Sunny demanded in an authoritative voice that had me automatically easing my stance. I realized she wasn’t talking to me when my peripheral caught movement to my right side, then, on my left side. Two more massive dogs emerged from the brush. Three pairs of black irises now eyeing me like a T-bone steak.
Threedogs had been stalking me, not just one.
I’d been played beyond played. Tricky, tricky bastards.
My gaze shifted between the dogs, then back to the fourth skeptical pair of eyes burning holes through my soul.
The fact that she didn’t bother to lock her doors or windows in her cabin suddenly made sense.
“Fine.” She said, then jerked her chin and began walking—my cue to follow.
The moment I lifted my foot, one of the dogs growled.
She snapped her fingers, addressing the biggest GSD. “Whoa, there now, buddy, calm down,” her tone a sweet, southern drawl.
The woman wasmocking me.
Her lip curved as she breezed past me, an extra sway of attitude in those hips.
The three dogs eyed me as they passed by, then fell into step behind the flowing hair of their master. I waited a beat, watching the Captain and her army descend down the pathway, each soldier at her beck and call. Sunny knew how to make people fall in line and how to get what she wanted.
Sunny Harper was no man’s fool.
She was the leader of the pack.
An alpha female.
No…
A Queen among servants.
I fell into step behind her.
“Are there any trip wires or land mines I need to be aware of?”
“Not on the trail.”
My brows arched as I glanced into the surrounding woods.
