When runaway Kip Faulkner was seventeen, he witnessed two men commit a murder. Fear kept him from telling Sheriff Long the truth about what he'd seen. Guilt made him turn his life around. Eleven years later, he's the owner of a reputable private investigation agency in Denver. John Rigby looks like a typical biker, tattoos and all. But Kip discovers he’s the antithesis of that stereotype when he hires John to work for his agency. When Kip learns about a recent killing exactly like the one he witnessed and recognizes one of the killers in a blurry photo on the news, he vows to find out how the two murders are connected ... and if there have been more. With John's help, can he learn the truth behind the murders while the two men fight their mutual attraction? Or will Kip become the next victim?

The Agency

“Back on the bike,” John told him. “I’m taking you to the hospital.”


“Don’t argue. I’ll call the local police to tell them you’ve been shot and ask them to meet us there.”


“Great. Just what I need, another interrogation.”


John ignored him as he made the call and then helped Kip onto the bike. Rather than leave the way they’d come into the lot, John drove down the alley behind it and through two more before getting onto a side street which eventually took them to the one leading to the hospital.


By the time they walked into the ER, Kip had gone from being afraid to being furious as he thought about what had happened and wondered how the bastards had found them. “That wasn’t supposed to happen,” he told John angrily. “Two months of nothing, and God only knows we haven’t been in hiding, and now this?”


“Calm down. We’ll figure it out. First let the good doctor take a look at your shoulder while I give the admitting nurse your particulars. Then, you can rant.”


Chapter 40