Bounty hunter, Gil Waite is after Sonny's brother. All he cares about is "finding his fugitive" and collecting his money. But Sonny Montgomery is after so much more. Her precious baby niece, Ellie, who was kidnapped by a Colombian drug lord. She won't betray her family by falling in love with the one man who has the power to destroy her family. But she needs to escape Colombia and has no choice but to trust Gil, a man whose rugged exterior hides the heart of a hero she can't resist.

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The man put his fingers in his mouth and whistled. Sonny tried to cover Ellie’s ears, but the baby was flailing as she cried.

“I don’t think anyone is going to appreciate your breaking their eardrums.”

“It’s hot and we’re sitting ducks here,” he said. “It’s time to go.”

A car rolled to a stop in front of them. The man stepped off the curb and opened the back door, gestur¬ing for her to get inside.

“This is our ride. Get in.”

She shot him a disbelieving look. “Are you out of your mind? What makes you think I’m going to get into a car with you before I even know who you are?” Sonny asked, knowing full well that she had no other option.

“Gillespie Waite. You can call me Gil.”

“That’s it?”

“I introduced myself.”

“I’m not getting in that car until you tell me what I want to know. People have a bad habit of disappearing in this country and this baby and I are not going to end up on that list.”

He stared at her, considering what she’d said. “You don’t have to be afraid. I’m not here to hurt you.”

He smiled and for a fraction of a second, he didn’t look as suspicious as he had in the airport.

“And?” she pressed.

“I was hired to find your brother. Cash Montgomery is your brother, isn’t he? He was arrested in Miami on drug trafficking charges and then fled before his hearing.”

“Says you. My family and I know he was framed. Who hired you?”

“His bail bondsman. You can take up the ‘framed’ theory with him and the federal prosecutor when I haul his ass—.” He glanced at the baby. “When I bring him back to Miami.”

“What’s the bail bondsman’s name?” Sonny couldn’t remember the name offhand but she was sure she’d rec¬ognize it if he told her. She wanted to know if Gil really knew it or if he was just giving her a line to shut her up.

“Does it matter?”

‘To me it does. You’ve just ruined my chance of getting this baby out of Colombia safely.”

“You said that before.” He leaned forward and whis¬pered in her ear, “I wouldn’t go yelling that too loudly. Especially since something tells me you’re not exactly running on the right side of the law right now.”

She stifled her defeated sigh. “The name?”

‘Telling you the name of the bondsman isn’t going to change the fact that you and the kid need to get into the car before we draw any more attention to ourselves than we already have. As I’ve told you, these guards are trigger-happy. We may have fooled them inside the airport, but we won’t get lucky like that twice.”

“You call me missing my plane lucky?”

He continued, his voice booming over hers. “All they need is just a hint of a reason to put some pressure on that trigger and let those bullets spray. It doesn’t even need to be a good reason. And they don’t care how much of a mess they make. Get my drift? ’Cause they’re not going to do the cleaning up.”

She did know. She knew what kind of people her family was dealing with. It pained her to think that Cash had fallen into the hands of men who were so willing to do him harm, the likes of which had already been done to Lucia.

Gil held the door to the backseat open. Sonny fixed her eyes on him, taking in the hard look of challenge on his face. She was up to that challenge, but how could she drag Ellie into it? If she screamed, the authorities would come running and she had no doubt it would end in bloodshed, just like Gil said. Every instinct she had told her it was a bad idea to go with this man. Isn’t that what self-defense classes taught women? You’re as good as dead if you get into the car?

But he knew about Cash. And in her arms was Cash’s little daughter, a baby that Lucia had just given her life to free. Despite what Torres had said, she knew Lucia’s death was because of Ellie. She had no idea where Dylan was or if he was any closer to locating Cash. In a way, Gil was all she had.

And dead was dead, whether by his hand or the guards who had their own brand of justice. She could only hope he’d have mercy on the baby.

“What’s in this for you?” she said, trying one last time for information.

“I take your brother back to the U.S. for prosecution before the bail needs to be paid and I get a nice bonus for my troubles. That’s the way it works.”

“Do you take us, too?”

The words were out of her mouth before she had time to think about what she’d said. The surprise in his eyes mirrored what she felt. But it was the only way. She’d come far, but she couldn’t do this alone. She needed help and if she worked this right, she and Ellie might be able to get back to the States alive.

“Look, you’re the one who is responsible for me missing my plane. I don’t have any more money to pay for food or hotel rooms. If you’re going to detain me until you get whatever information you think I have—”

“Go on. Get in,” he said quietly.

She closed her eyes and sighed softly. Ellie was still fussing, though much more quietly than before. She needed a diaper change and a bottle, neither of which she’d get while Sonny stood there and debated.

Gil was after money. She was out of it He wanted her brother. She wanted safety for all of them. If Gil could find Cash, that was just an added bonus, wasn’t it? With her plane long gone and the airport guards sus¬picious of her, she had only one choice. She had to go with him.

She stepped off the curb and into the backseat, hoping she hadn’t just made the worst mistake of her life.

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