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would be discharged in the morning. She wished she could have moved them out sooner, even if just down to her apartment in Cheyenne, but she couldn’t rush them out of there when they were still so badly dehydrated and in need of high doses of pain meds. They’d have to wait until morning.
    What would happen then? Would Ty and his team just let them go? And what about the WKB? Would they follow her friends or come after her? Nothing made sense any more. She shoved her fingers through her hair, trying to dislodge the persistent feeling of anxiety she’d had since meeting up with Sherri and Trudy a few days earlier.
    She caught a movement out of the corner of her eye. A black Mercedes SUV with Colorado plates was driving very slowly down the road. There wasn’t much traffic in this small town this time of the evening, so it stood out. It had gone by a couple of times, hadn’t it? As she watched, the heavily tinted passenger window lowered. A man reached out with a tattooed arm and held his hand in the shape of a pistol. He made the motion of firing at her, then the SUV sped away.
    Oh. God. Fear pinned her in place.
    Holy hell, she was wound tight, she scolded herself. Gangsters don’t drive Mercedes. But the guy did have a lot of ink, like the WKBers she’d seen at Winchester’s. Maybe that was a coincidence. Probably just bored kids playing with her. She was seriously high-strung after all that had happened in the last few days. Her heart was jumping in her chest like a six-week-old puppy.
    “There you are!” a masculine voice said behind her.
    Eden jumped and spun around to face the man behind her, then sighed when she realized it was just Ty.
    He frowned at her reaction. “What happened? What’s wrong?”
    She didn’t know if she should tell him. If she did, he might not let them leave in the morning, though how he could make her stay, she didn’t want to think about. When she didn’t immediately answer, he looked around them, checking for whatever might have upset her.
    When he realized there was nothing around them, his gaze pivoted back to her. Disliking the intensity in his look, she moved a step away from him, a little closer to the clinic door. “I have friends, you know,” she told him. “People who will notice if I’m not back to work when I’m expected.”
    Ty smiled. “It’s good to have friends.”
    “They’ll report me missing.”
    He held up his hands. “I was just going to take you to dinner, not kidnap you. Your friends wanted club sandwiches and Angel wants a burger. If that scares you, I can get it myself, but I would like company. And you probably need to eat.”
    Eden looked up and down the road, checking for that Mercedes—or any vehicles that might be up to mischief. She studied Ty as she considered her options. Maybe it was a good idea to go with him. She could at least get a better sense of his intentions toward her and her friends.
    “Just dinner,” she warned.
    “Just dinner,” he agreed. “There’s a diner right down the street. It’s a public place. What could happen to you?”
    “So was Winchester’s and look how that ended. I don’t trust you.”
    Ty laughed, a flash of humor that didn’t touch his eyes. “That’s good, but I guess it’s a little late for me to tell you you shouldn’t trust anyone you don’t know—”
    “Yeah. I figured that one out. Thanks.” She just wished Sherri and Trudy had—and long before they’d gotten into this mess. She fell into step beside him.
    The diner took up the lower floor of an old brick building. It was crowded with supper patrons. The aroma of hot coffee and wonderful, home-cooked foods filled the air. Heavy china dishes clinked in the kitchen. Eden’s stomach growled. She couldn’t remember when she’d last eaten.
    Classic rock spilled from speakers placed around the room, just below the pressed-tin ceiling. Pop-culture memorabilia from the last century was scattered everywhere, complemented by the retro