Daddy Warlock by Jacqueline Diamond

Author:Jacqueline Diamond
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin

ON THE DRIVE HOME, Tara couldn’t begin to make sense of what had happened. Why was Harry lying to her, and what did Chance have to do with it?

Her son’s muddled explanation kept getting mixed up with the strange feelings she’d experienced in the tower room. She couldn’t stop thinking about Chance’s words a few nights earlier: People can do things that defy scientific principles.

Had he been conducting experiments with her son? It was unthinkable.

Then she nearly couldn’t find the house. For some reason, she kept wanting to turn left where she should have turned right. It was Harry who pointed out the landmarks and got her headed in the right direction.

With mixed feelings, Tara pulled into the driveway and saw Chance’s car sitting in the open, as if he’d been in too great a hurry to put it in the garage. Was something wrong at work? She didn’t think she could handle another crisis at the moment.

The front door stood open. With Harry on her heels, she hurried through the living room and into the courtyard.

She was heading toward the rear office when she saw Chance standing on the curved stairs, as if he’d just emerged from the tower. Anger flashed from his eyes.

“What were you doing up here?” he demanded. “The computer beeped me. It’s programmed to do that when anyone enters the tower.”

“I didn’t know it was off-limits.” The way he held himself, erect and imposing, rang bells in her mind. He had stood this way before, and she had watched him from this angle. Unable to pinpoint the memory, Tara rushed on. “Harry got into trouble at school. He claims you were working with him on some kind of—of mind games.”

Chance’s anger turned cold. “Harry?”

“I didn’t mean to!” the boy blurted. “Honest, I didn’t. I just talked Al into turning on the siren and he was going to get in trouble so I made the fireman think the school was on fire! That’s all.”

“What’s he talking about, ‘making’ the fireman think something?” Tara gritted her teeth with impatience as Chance descended the stairs.

He regarded her assessingly, his gaze hooded. Mistrust flooded through her. Always before, the man had struck her as frank and honest, but now she saw only calculation in his manner.

He was up to something. But what on earth could it have to do with her son?

“Harry,” Chance said, “if you’ll go into my private den, there’s a new video game you can play. Your mother and I need to talk.”

The boy brightened. “Cool! Now that I’m suspended, I’ll have lots of time to play!”

“Suspended?” Chance said.

“Go on, Harry.” Tara shooed him away. “Mr. Powers is right. We do have a lot to talk about”.

They went into the office. Its windowed length was flooded with sunlight, but today it seemed full of shadows.

Sitting stiffly in a straight-backed chair, Tara recounted the morning’s events. She expected Chance to dismiss her son’s story, but he listened with resignation.

“Something like this was bound to happen,” he said when she finished.

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