Native Born (18 page)
Authors: Jenna Kernan
By the time he reached The Silver Bullet, he was sweating just thinking about seeing Megan again. He spotted her in a booth to the side when he entered. Country music blared from the speakers, smoke clogged the room and footsteps pounded from the line dance on the dance floor.
Megan looked up at him, one hand clenching a wineglass, her eyes worried. He ordered a beer and joined her. She'd secured her hair in that bun again, she wore no makeup and her clothes were nondescript. Once again it struck him that she downplayed her looks. He wondered why.
She could wear a damn feed sack and she'd still be the prettiest girl he'd ever met. And he knew what she looked like with that hair down, her body naked, her lips trailing kisses down his chest.
“Megan,” he said as he slipped into the booth across from her.
“Thank you for coming.” She licked her lips, drawing his eyes to her mouth. He took a sip of beer to stall and wrangle his libido.
“You said it was important.”
Please spit it out so I can go home and forget about you.
Not that he ever had. But he was trying.
“Roan, I may be jumping the gun, but I had to talk to someone about this.”
The worry in her voice sounded serious. He straightened. “What is it?”
She looked down in her glass. “When I performed Joe McCullen's autopsy the first time, I...thought I saw something suspicious in his tox report.”
Roan's heart jumped.
“With all that's happened at Horseshoe Creek recently,” Megan continued, “and with that Lowman woman and her son, and those fires...it made me think of that report.”
“I don't understand,” Roan said. “What was it that bothered you?”
She inhaled a deep breath, then glanced around the room warily, as if she didn't want anyone to hear their conversation. His instincts roared to life. She'd said she didn't feel comfortable talking on the phone.
“Megan, tell me,” he said.
“I don't think Joe McCullen died of natural causes.” She leaned closer, her voice low. “I think he was murdered.”
Copyright © 2016 by Rita B. Herron
ISBN-13: 9781488005633
Native Born
Copyright © 2016 by Jeannette H. Monaco
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