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Montana Double Riders 2

Unyielding Surrender

Suzanna Creighton, running from an abusive ex-boyfriend, ends up stranded roadside in Montana Gabriel Wallace finds her, helps her with the car repair, but has trouble finding her a ests she e lifestyle as well, opening up a whole neorld of pleasure and opportunities

Gabriel, owner of Enclave Auto and a part-time deputy sheriff in the local Old West Town amusement park, is immediately enamored of Suzanna He and Nathan, Old West Town’s only blacksard to their relationships, but find they are unwilling to let Suzanna out of their lives so easily She agrees to stay with them on a more permanent basis, until an unexpected scare

If Suzanna stays and faces her ex, can she survive, and will she possibly endanger both Gabriel and Nathan?

Chapter One

Enclave, Montana—ten miles out of town

Suzanna Creighton watched as s out froht then and there that her horoscope had been completely full of shit This was not the week to be adventurous or take a long, exciting trip

Not that the newspaper’s Sunday prophecy had actually put her on the road No Marcus had done that soon after his open hand had connected soundly with the side of her face Bastard left a , or more accurately, to be bitch slapped

Foot retreating froas pedal, she slowed down, pulled to the side of the lonely, eearshift into park A knocking sound erupted froine, and another billow of smoke escaped She turned the key off, sent up a silent prayer that she’d gotten far enough away that Marcus couldn’t find her, and stepped out of her car

Since turning onto this road, she had seen a total of one vehicle, and it had been going the opposite direction Sunglasses fir the small bruise beneath her eye, she looked first to her left and then to her right, searching the horizon in either direction for any sign of life Seeing nothingin the early-afternoon breeze, she leaned her butt against the side of the car and wondered what in the hell she was going to do now

Her recently purchased disposable cell phone currently had no signal Which was not really a big surprise The last road sign she’d seen a while back had said Enclave about twenty et solance at the deepening afternoon sky put that scenario directly into the I hope I don’t have to pile Likely she’d arrive in Enclave after dark

This exact tireat, not perfect, but good Solid Manageable Her job as content editor of an up-and-coazine was on track She didn’t h to live on Especially when supplemented with her other online job as editor for an e-publisher The other part-ti upload files orwebsites—rounded out her modest inco on rae student

She had a good life Had being the operative word here In the trunk of her car rested her faithful laptop The one instrument she needed to do the bulk of her work In a pinch, she could do her work from anywhere with an internet connection

Yesterday evening she’d stopped in the last large city at a chain restaurant with a free Wi-Fi hot spot She had caught up on a feork-related loose ends while she sucked down a large coffee to stay awake before hitting the road again She hadn’t slept h her veins, keeping her alert at the ht by Marcus

That fear had helped as she’d driven for the better part of the last two days

Forty-eight hours of straight driving That was far enough, right?

She sent her gaze upward There wasn’t even a single wisp of cloud in the big blue Montana sky above her The town of Enclave was in the middle of nowhere, which appealed to her She’d seen the listing for the set a better sense of the place, if she ever got there