Two hunters leaped from an ATV and moved quickly toward the place where the gator had disappeared. It had not been a boat she’d heard earlier, but rather a camouflaged, glorified golf cart favored by hunters. One of the men caught sight of her and stopped. He did a double take.
Well, she was an odd sight.
This man, clad also in camo, lowered his gun and moved toward her, his strides long and purposeful as he tramped through the lowland.
Renny tugged her draped hat off and started digging for her credentials. She’d already received permission from Picou to access the land, and these hunters themselves could be poaching on Dufrene property, though she was fairly certain the man who’d slipped through the tree line heading for the bayou was Nate, the oldest Dufrene brother.
“What the hell?” the man coming toward her muttered, shaking his head.
She lifted her eyes and her mind clicked and whirred as a horrible realization bloomed in her brain.
She blinked once before trying to school her features into something other than shock.
The man she hoped to never lay eyes on again was standing right in front of her, looking like a model for The Great Outdoors Magazine.
Darby Dufrene had come home to Beau Soleil.
ISBN: 9781459245297
Copyright © 2012 by Ruth MacLean
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