Chapter 21

“I’m not late, am I?” Daniel asked.

Clark’s eyes lingered on Daniel just enough to raise Daniel’s hopes.

“Nope,” Clark said with a shake of his head, pushing away from his car and heading toward the sidewalk. He looked over his shoulder at Daniel. “I figured you’d be early, so I thought I’d schedule appropriately.”

“It was accidental,” Daniel said ruefully. “I didn’t mean to be early, but that ridge road is spectacular.”

Daniel admired Clark’s easy swing of step and posture far too much. Gray and white hair gleamed in the low light from either side of the path, and Daniel wondered what it would feel like to run his hands through it.

Stop it, damnit. For having so much pride in your self-control, you’d better get some back

Daniel hurried so that he was beside Clark, and he tried to see through the trees. “About how far is it?”

“Not far, really,” Clark said. “Just wanted the entrance to be far enough away from the lot that people think it’s a utility building. So Tim tells me.”