Chapter 26 of 'Riptide'

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

I pulled myself upright in the seat, feeling like an idiot.

I’d been so wrapped up in my thoughts, I hadn’t noticed the truck pull up to the loading dock only about fifty feet away. And when the damn thing backfired, I could’ve sworn it was a gunshot.

I had just collected my wits, when Amber emerged from the building with a stocky brown woman in tow. The woman’s hair was pulled back and tucked under a ball cap. She wore a striped T-shirt, jeans, and a worried look.