A Firefighter's Hidden Truth by Tara Taylor Quinn

Author:Tara Taylor Quinn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2023-05-15T13:57:27+00:00

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She didn’t want Carter’s face plastered on the big screen, consuming the room. Or rather, out in the open in such a huge way for his father to consume.

She’d set the whole mess in motion by going to identify the man in the first place. And then going back a second time...

Part of her knew she’d done the right thing for her son.

But damn...

Were they ever going to find the guy who wanted Luke dead? Who’d tried to kill her, too?

Would Luke ever fully regain his memory and at least tell her why he’d done what he’d done to her?

Like the reasons could somehow help her prevent Luke from hurting her son in the future?

Or...hurt her again?

“I’m sorry.”

Her head jerked up at his apology. Were they so connected that the man could read her mind?

“I know you were hoping that the pizza was just a mistaken address...”

Right.

And maybe she should have been thinking on those lines, worrying about a fiend wanting them dead.

Maybe thinking about Luke, the past, her son’s future, put life on the front burner instead of death.

“I don’t blame you for any of this, Luke.” How could she? The man didn’t want to be dead any more than she wanted to be in danger.

“You just blame me for the past.”

She wasn’t going to feel bad about that. “You would, too, if you’d been in my shoes.” He was a fact guy, and she had the facts.

“I’d like to watch the last two videos.”

She understood. He needed to see what Carter looked like. Without her phone, she hadn’t been able to show him.

Or comfort herself with the thousand or more photos she kept on the card in her phone. Images she scrolled through frequently when she was away.

“They were meant for me, personally,” she told him. “I’d like to see them first.”

His expression hardly changed. Just went blank.

She’d hurt him. Hadn’t meant to. Or even wanted to.

But...her family trusted that their messages were in her care.

Luke handed her the phone, got up and walked to the far end of the long room, disappearing behind the partition. She watched him the whole way with a hurting heart, but she didn’t call him back.

Instead, with shaking fingers, she turned off casting from the device she held, turned down the volume low enough for just her to hear and hit Play on her mother’s video first.

It was short. Just letting her know that everything was great and not to worry. It ended with the “Love you” that had been their standard goodbye forever. Always.

She watched the short clip a second time, feeling better. It wasn’t the content of her mother’s words that calmed her but the unlined expression on her face, the easy tone.

Her mom wasn’t worried.

She figured that Sierra’s Web, whoever they’d sent to her mother’s home, had played a huge part in that situation.

And owed that one to Luke.

The video from Carter made her so lonely for her boy she teared up for a moment. And then, playing it a second and third time, she smiled.

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