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Bluegrass Undercover (Bluegrass Brothers)

Bluegrass Undercover (Bluegrass Brothers)

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Autoren: Kathleen Brooks
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macho men?” he joked.
    “No, foster care brat.” Not wanting to get into it, she asked about Corey.
    “He’ll live, but they don’t know how much damage has been done yet. We should know more tomorrow.”
    “Here’s your dinner, Miss Hill.” With a smile, the perky waitress handed her a plastic bag.
    “Thanks.” She pushed back her chair and froze when Cade did the same. She raised her eyebrow at him in silent question.
    “I thought I could walk you home and show you the sights,” Cade said in response to her silent query.
    “Thanks, but Mrs. Lopez already did that.”
    “Well, then just allow me to walk you home to fulfill my daily gentlemanly requirement.” Cade smiled at her then and her heart pounded in her chest like it did when she was going on a bust. If she thought Miles’ smile was something, Cade’s eclipsed it.
    “Fine.” She turned to go, but Cade slipped his hand onto her elbow to guide her around the table. All conversation stopped until he guided her out of the Café. Before the door closed, the noise level escalated to near deafening, and people didn’t even try to hide the fact that they were staring at them leaving together.
    “Is it always like this?” she asked Cade.
    “No. It’s usually worse.” She laughed then and didn’t even mind when he slipped his hand from her elbow to the small of her back. “See over there. The store with the yellow and white awning? That’s my sister’s store.”
    “That’s Paige’s store?”
    “You know Paige?”
    “I met her, along with most of the town already.”
    “Ah, the welcoming committee.” His smile was so genuine and happy when talking about his sister and the town that Annie became lost in it.
    A loud thumping started to vibrate her body and draw her out of her reverie. It drew louder and seemed so completely out of place in Keeneston. A week ago she wouldn’t have even noticed it in Miami, but Keeneston wasn’t a place people cruised around with their windows down and rap music pumping. It was more of a windows down and country music drifting on the breeze type place.
    She looked down the street and saw a large black Escalade roaring towards them. Cade had already stopped to watch it. She wouldn’t be completely surprised if some old man came running out shaking a cane at the Escalade and yelling at them to turn it down. The thought brought a smile to her face, a smile that quickly disappeared when the doors to the Escalade were thrown open as the SUV slid to a stop next to them, and three massively muscled men leapt out of the car. They were all dressed in those tear-away athletic pants and white tank tops. One man had his head shaved, one had crazy curly hair with a receding hairline and the third had black hair with bangs.
    Damn, her dinner was sure to be destroyed saving Cade again. She shifted the handle, getting ready to smash it in the first person’s face to reach her when Cade wrapped his arm around her waist and flung her behind him as if she weighed nothing. She stumbled backwards and fell on her bottom, landing against the old brick building. She cringed when the man with curly hair brought up a tire iron from his side. The moonlight, which had just moments ago cast a romantic glow on the street, now cast a menacing reflection off the tire iron. He raised the tire iron and swung it at Cade. She had to save him! She watched in horror as the tire iron came swinging down in an arc towards his head. He blocked it with his forearm and followed up with an uppercut that snapped the guy’s head back before the man knew what hit him. She would never have guessed he had so much speed.
    As the other two closed in at once on Cade, she watched the injured man stumble back to the car. She tried to get her feet under her to help, but it was already over as she stood up. With a swift kick to the knee, Cade brought the one with dark hair and girly bangs to the ground. Annie watched in awe as he crumpled to the ground, holding his injured knee. He had to drag himself to the safety of the car. With a quick strike of his hand, Cade shattered the nose of the third man. Blood flowed freely down the white shirt as the man with the shaved head scrambled into the car and tucked tail out of there.
    Cade dusted off his khaki pants and turned to her. There wasn’t a speck of dirt on him. The only evidence that he had just been in a fight was his hazel eyes shone bright with excitement. When he held out his hand for her, she

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