“Stay here, while I scout the perimeter.”
“No way,” Riley whispered. “This was my idea. I’m going with you.” She wasn’t about to admit she felt a little squeamish standing in the woods by herself in the pitch black dark of midnight. There could be…creatures and crawling things. Some things she was fine being a girly girl about.
She couldn’t make out Liam’s face in the shadows, but his long silence suggested he probably knew it.
“Fine. We’ll come back for the cargo. Step where I step, and test each one before you put your full weight down.”
Riley fell into careful step behind him.
Heeled sandals were absolutely not the correct footwear for a covert operation. The flirty sundress was hardly appropriate either, but going by her apartment to change would’ve meant running into her mother.
