Colton's Lethal Reunion by Tara Taylor Quinn

Author:Tara Taylor Quinn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-10-01T18:40:52+00:00

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Colton Oil finance business kept Rafe at the office longer than he’d have liked. As eager as he was to get up in the attic and go through Ace’s trunk to see if he could find anything that would help with discovering who’d switched his adopted brother at birth, Rafe was more driven to having a reason to call Kerry. The completed trunk search would offer that.

It was like he had to be in constant contact with her.

He also had to spend time at the hospital with Payne. He’d changed back into dress pants and shirt and tie upon arrival at the office and was wearing the same as he walked into the hospital room. Genevieve was there, but welcomed a chance to have dinner with Marlowe, Bowie and Callum, Marlowe’s fraternal twin, and after she left, Rafe ended up sitting with Ace for an hour, watching Payne lying unconscious.

Marlowe and Callum were going to be heading up to the hospital after dinner and then Genevieve would take the night shift.

Rafe told Ace about wanting to go through his trunk.

“Fine,” Ace said, throwing up his hand. “It’s not like I have much say in anything these days.”

Rafe understood the other man’s frustration. Probably more than Ace knew.

“You want to be there?” he asked. “We could do it tonight, when we’re done here.”

Ace’s headshake wasn’t a total surprise. Who’d want to go look through childhood memorabilia right after finding out that his childhood had been based on a lie? At least Rafe had always known who he was, where he came from.

“I’m staying at the condo,” Ace said, referring to his loft in the industrial section of town. “I saw a reporter lurking around at the mansion yesterday and I’m not dealing with that,” Ace continued.

Rafe didn’t blame him.

They talked about Colton Oil business for a minute or two, mostly awkward conversation since Ace was no longer on the board and privy to the confidential board minutes, which were taking up a lot of Rafe’s office time at the moment. A lot of people outside of Mustang Valley and even Arizona lived off the success of Colton Oil.

Rafe turned to study the monitors hooked up to Payne. The rise and fall of every heartbeat was designated with a green line in teepee-shaped formations. The oxygen levels and blood pressure readings turned up on the same screen. He’d asked enough questions that first day to know normal ranges for all of Payne’s vital statistics and was glad to see them all completely on track. That had to be good.

“I get it now,” Ace said, elbows on his knees, his hands clasped, as he glanced between Payne and Rafe.

“Get what?”

“How it must have felt...you moving in with us...there, not really one of us, but one of us...”

Uncomfortable, unsure where Ace was going, and pretty sure he didn’t want to tag along, Rafe said, “What you’re getting at is how hard it was, not having a say in how my life was going to go,” he told the other man.

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