On Deadly Ground (Dan & Chloe Book 2) Read Online Free

and harder and pressed against the dress. Chloe had to bite her bottom lip to prevent her squeal of delight. Dan pinched her right nipple through the dress and Chloe grunted.
    ‘Fuck!’ Chloe whispered.
    Dan kissed her softly on the mouth and then released her. He took a step back and Chloe sighed in disappointment. She leaned back against the Volvo.
    ‘I know I once told you that you could do whatever, whenever you liked to me, but I do so look forward to “date-night”, they make me feel naughty .’
    Dan laughed.
    ‘Baby, you’re always naughty .’
    ‘True, but you know what I mean.’
    ‘I know,’ Dan checked his watch. ‘Do you want to get some lunch here in town or do you want to head home?’
    ‘Let’s get some lunch here, we still have plenty of time to get everything ready before our friends start to arrive.’
    Chloe was referring to the weekly barbecue that they held every Friday evening. It was a ritual that had come about by accident but they had enjoyed the first one so much that it had soon become a weekly tradition. The friends that they had made in Rockspur would descend on the ranch and everyone would have a good time. It usually lasted until around eleven and Chloe (who enjoyed the barbecues a lot), couldn’t wait until eleven o’clock had come and gone.
    She wanted “date-night” more than the companionship of their small circle of friends.
     
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    CHAPTER FOUR.
     
    They never did get to the diner that they had chosen for their lunch. As they walked hand-in-hand along the sidewalk enjoying the hot summer day they saw a youth running towards them. The runner was in his late teens and he appeared to be running from someone or something.
    The young man was fast and was quickly closing on Dan and Chloe. A young mother with a pushchair stepped out from the pharmacy directly in to the path of the young man and she yelled out as the teenager knocked her and the pushchair over on to the sidewalk.
    The woman’s cries were joined by the toddler that she had been pushing. Dan was relieved to see the little two year old kid getting to his knees and the mother, now crying, swept her child in to her arms.
    Alerted by the young mother’s cries people turned to stare and traffic on the street came to a halt.
    Dan could now see a uniformed deputy chasing after the youth; the deputy was a good fifty yards behind the athletic youth. The deputy was out of shape and quickly losing ground.
    ‘Hey stop,’ someone yelled but the youth had no intention of stopping, he barrelled in to a male pedestrian who had stepped out from the cafe to intervene.
    The youth’s momentum and athletic build sent the would-be hero staggering backwards where he crashed in to, and then through, the glass front of the café. Glass shattered and the man cried out as shards of glass cascaded down over and around him.
    The young man saw Dan and Chloe up ahead and Dan could see the look in the youth’s eyes. Dan had been around enough addicts in his time to know that the runner was high on something and would not be stopping for anyone.
    Dan placed his left arm against Chloe and they both took a step to the side leaving the sidewalk clear.
    Dan and Chloe stepped back out of the young man’s path and the youth snarled in victory.
    Chloe looked up at Dan and he offered her a brief nod.
    Dan stepped back out on to the sidewalk just as the young man reached them. Dan braced himself and snapped his right arm out. The young man’s upper chest connected with the solidity of Dan’s forearm.
    Dan had never watched wrestling but if he had he would have right then known that he had executed the perfect “clothes-line” manoeuvre.
    The runner was flipped cleanly from his feet and nanoseconds later he face-planted on to the cement sidewalk. Dan clearly heard the sound of the runner’s nose break as it impacted with the hard