CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Long goodbyes weren’t his style. Ruger was used to being on the road and when it came time to leave his family behind, he liked to slip out quietly. Kissing Layla goodbye felt different. Walking away from the woman he’d spent the night with felt wrong.
The promises he’d made about their relationship just beginning were true. Layla wasn’t like the women from his past. But getting involved with the person he was supposed to be protecting for a man he respected should be wrong.
Jansen hadn’t been the one to meet him when he arrived in Atlantic City the previous night. Serendipity had answered her boyfriend’s phone and had agreed to meet him in a diner. The brief meeting was enough to let him know Jansen was safe. For now. But close to something Ashcroft didn’t want the wo
