A Dangerous Inheritance by Leona Karr

Author:Leona Karr
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2004-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Stacy lay awake, listening to Josh’s movement in the other room. She was still shaken by the devastating kisses that had crumbled every ounce of her common sense. Even now, she fought a desire to ignore her pride and go to him.

And then what? Do you really want to set yourself up for another rejection?

She had invited his advances. Any man would have responded to a scantily clad woman clinging to him the way she had. What had she expected him to do? Pat her on the head? No, she’d wanted to lose herself in his vibrant masculinity and close her mind to everything but the protective strength of his body pressing against hers. Plain and simple, she’d wanted him to make love to her. And he had rejected the offer.

She mentally cursed herself for being such a fool. What else could she have expected? This whole situation was enough to make any sensible person think twice about getting involved with a crazy man’s niece.

The attic’s collection of grotesque, useless machines and forms was evidence that renovating the hotel was a mockery. Carrying out her uncle’s wishes would justify her inheritance, but it would be costly. Spending money on such an irrational project was pure stupidity.

And someone didn’t want her to do it! If Josh’s speculations were correct, everything that happened tonight was aimed at making her pack up and leave.

She sighed, suddenly too exhausted physically and emotionally to think clearly. In the morning, she’d try to sort it all out and make some decisions. Tonight her mind kept returning to the way Josh’s kisses and caresses had awakened passions she’d thought forever gone.

Bedded down on the living room couch, Josh’s thoughts were running along tangled lines. Should he call the sheriff and report what had happened? Better to wait, Josh decided. What if Mosley had orchestrated the whole thing himself, or had someone like a robot deputy do it?

The whole fiasco of creating a museum out of the hotel was ludicrous, and obviously the delusions of a mad mind, but Josh didn’t see how the project would frighten anyone. If it wasn’t making the hotel into a museum that was the threat to someone—what was?

Maybe it’s you.

Josh stiffened. Was his intuitive answer correct? If the perpetrator frightened Stacy enough, she’d close up the place, leave and he wouldn’t have access to the premises. If someone wanted him gone, then scaring Stacy into shutting up the hotel was the way to make that happen. As Josh considered this possibility, it reinforced his belief that the truth about Renquist and Glenda’s death lay somewhere on the premises. He was on the right track, he knew it. He just needed time to prove it.

“I don’t know who’s behind all of this, but I’m going to find out,” Josh told himself. He worried that what had happened between him and Stacy might make her reluctant to continue in their present arrangement. The shock of her uncle’s genius gone mad had taken its toll.

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