Chapter 13

“Rainbow Ranch. How can I help you?”

“Is Jason there? This is Lou—Lou Vetrano. It’s urgent.”

“Hang on.”

A moment later, Jason’s deep voice came over the phone, scratchy and not very clear.

Lou tried to explain what had happened, but the words tangled in his mouth. By then, Spark had managed to sit up. “Let me talk to him, tell him where we are.”

Lou handed the phone over. After Spark gave a terse report of the accident and where they were, Jason assured them he’d be there as fast as he could.

“Sit tight. Keep your weapons ready in case that cat comes back, but I doubt it will. Casa and I’ll be there in about a half-hour.”

That thirty minutes passed very slowly. Slumping to the ground again, Spark seemed to fade in and out of consciousness. Fear pounded through Lou. He didn’t have a light and it had grown too dark to see much, but Spark’s back and side felt like he was soaked with blood. Lou touched the other man’s body, then drew his hand back, sticky and wet.