“Maybe.”
He turned her toward him and bent to kiss her. “I love you, sweet,” he murmured.
She smiled up at him. “I love you too.”
He touched her cheek lightly, and said in a very calm voice, “When we get this damned gold to Washington, you and I are going to have a serious talk about our future.”
Secure in his love, she said innocently, “I thought we already had that talk. It seems to me you told me very bluntly that you couldn’t offer me a future.”
Falcon gave her a look, and began taking off his coat in preparation to begin digging. “Don’t throw my own words back at me, sweet. A man never likes to be told what a total ass he made of himself.”
“I’ll keep that in mind,” she murmured.
Falcon gave her another look, but grinned when she laughed, and began digging. Some time later, his shovel struck the first chest, and within minutes a dozen of them had been uncovered.
Falcon bent to lift the first out, and his eyes rose swiftly to meet hers as he straightened to place it on the side of the pit he had dug. Victoria, alerted by that look, came closer and watched as he lifted the chests out, one by one. Then he used the shovel to smash the locks and opened the chests, one by one. And they looked at each other, baffled.
The chests were empty.
To my friends, Iris and Fayrene. Thanks.
BY KAY HOOPER
The Bishop Trilogies
Stealing Shadows
Hiding in the Shadows
Out of the Shadows
Touching Evil
Whisper of Evil
Sense of Evil
Hunting Fear
Chill of Fear
Sleeping with Fear
Blood Sins
Blood Ties
The Quinn Novels
Once a Thief
Always a Thief
Romantic Suspense
The Haunting of Josie
Amanda
After Caroline
Finding Laura
Haunting Rachel
Classic Fantasy and Romance
On Wings of Magic
C.J.’s Fate
Something Different
Pepper’s Way
If There Be Dragons
Illegal Possession
Rebel Waltz
Larger than Life
Time after Time
Raven on the Wing
Rafferty’s Wife
Zach’s Law
The Fall of Lucas Kendrick
Unmasking Kelsey
Outlaw Derek
Shades of Gray
Captain’s Paradise
It Takes a Thief
Aces High
Golden Threads
The Glass Shoe
What Dreams May Come
Through the Looking Glass
The Lady and the Lion
Star-Crossed Lovers
The Wizard of Seattle
The Delaney Christmas Carol
Rafe, the Maverick
Adelaide, the Enchantress
Velvet Lightning
Summer of the Unicorn
The Matchmaker
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KAY HOOPER is the award-winning author of Sleeping with Fear, Hunting Fear, Chill of Fear, Touching Evil, Whisper of Evil, Sense of Evil, Once a Thief, Always a Thief, the Shadows trilogy, and other novels. She lives in North Carolina, where she is at work on her next book.
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