Carly Bishop: No One But You

His body reminded her she was a woman…

The battering he’d taken earlier, evading the sheriff, only made him that much more dark and dangerously appealing. Her pulse throbbed.

Matt was in her space, breathing the same scarce air. The more he looked at her, the more powerful he became and the deeper in his thrall she fell.

“I’ll be back in the morning,” he said. “You’ll need to go along with whatever I say or do. Clear?” When she didn’t answer, he continued, “You don’t want to cross me, Fiona. The sheriff will be back in the morning and they’ll be saying you’re the one who murdered Kyle Everly.”

She swallowed hard. “I don’t believe that.”

“You don’t have to believe me, Fiona. Just wait and see.” He stepped closer to her, and in the frigid night air she could feel the warmth emanating off his body, smell the scent of hay and horseflesh on him. He touched her cheek. “I want you to know this,” he said, his voice low. “I want you to know you can tell me anything.”

He just didn’t know. That was the one thing she couldn’t do.

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No One But You

Carly Bishop

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Carly Bishop’s novels are praised for their “sensuality, riveting emotional appeal and first-class suspense.” She was a RITA Award finalist in 1996 for her Harlequin Intrigue novel Reckless Lover, and she’s won numerous awards and critical acclaim throughout her ten-year writing career. Carly lives in Colorado and regularly uses the great Rocky Mountains as the backdrop in her stories.

HARLEQUIN INTRIGUE

170—FUGITIVE HEART

232—FALLING STARS

314—HOT BLOODED

319—BREATHLESS

323—HEART THROB

357—RECKLESS LOVER

370—THE SOULMATE

394—SHADOW LOVER

440—ANGEL WITH AN ATTITUDE

454—WATCH OVER ME

497—MCQUAID’S JUSTICE

538—NO BABY BUT MINE*

564—NO BRIDE BUT HIS*

616—NO ONE BUT YOU*

Fiona Halsey—She spent her time gentling wild mustangs on the ranch her parents once owned. Would she tame Matt’s heart, or set him up?

Matt Guiliani—The last bachelor undercover agent in operation against an insidious vigilante organization, Matt was all business…or so he’d thought.

Dex Hanifen—The sheriff had ties to local thugs, and he really had it in for Fiona.

Dennis Geary—The ranch manager went AWOL early on.

Kyle Everly—Owner of the Bar Naught, he was set to conduct a high-level meeting when someone shot him in the back.

Elliott Braden—The Interpol agent wanted a clean sweep of all the conspirators.

Pascal Lariviere—The playboy in Fiona’s past was a very careful man.

Garrett Weisz and J. D. Thorne—Top undercover agents, they worried that Matt was in deadly, unforeseen danger.

In memory of Boyd D. Adsit

I miss you dearly

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Epilogue

At six minutes past eleven, Matt Guiliani rode into view of the main house on the Bar Naught Ranch. The deep irony of his own timing didn’t escape him. Nothing much ever did.

The window of opportunity had reached its own eleventh hour. The time to move on Kyle Everly was now.

Matt reined the sorrel to a halt and dismounted, dropping silently to the freezing earth. He could smell winter coming in the frigid night air. He could almost smell his own anticipation. He’d been preparing for nearly seven months to go after Everly. The wealthy Wyoming rancher, never dirtying his own hands, made the shadowy vigilante organization known as the TruthSayers look like a bunch of local yokels trying to get up a lynch mob.

Under cover of the moonless night Matt tethered his mount to a patch of scrub oak at the edge of national forest land. He crouched low and pulled a pair of high-tech night-vision binoculars, no larger than a deck of cards, from the breast pocket of his heavy flannel shirt.

He dropped to one knee and began to familiarize himself with every detail of the landscape below—the yard, the hedges, the barn, the residence. And he allowed the thrill of the chase to seep into his awareness…Everly had so narrowly escaped their notice.

Matt had arrived here tonight on an undercover assignment for the U.S. Attorney in Seattle. The Department of Justice wanted the TruthSayers dismantled, once and for all. This business of vigilante extremists doling out their own brand of justice had to be stopped. No one would have made the connections between Everly and the TruthSayers but for one arrogant mistake.

Scrutinizing the main ranch house once more for good measure, Matt turned his focus upon the barn. Inside the upscale, heat-controlled, state-of-the-art facility Everly kept his horses: six polo ponies, three Thoroughbred studs, a couple of working mounts—and the ruined show-quality Arabian that belonged to Fiona Halsey. Soldier Boy, she called him.

All the stable doors were divided in two. Only one had the top half open. From satellite reconnaissance photos, Matt knew that stall housed the viciously claustrophobic stallion. Word had it that everyone in town had warned Fiona the horse should be put down before he killed someone.