Day of Reckoning by B. J. Daniels

Author:B. J. Daniels
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Man-woman relationships, Fiction - Romance, Romance: Modern, Mothers, Cascade Range, Contemporary, Oregon, Fiction, Romance, Romantic suspense fiction, Death, Romance & Sagas, Adult, Romance - Contemporary, Missing persons, General, Love stories, Westerns, Romance - General
ISBN: 9780373227617
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2004-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

FORD CRACKED one eyelid open as he heard the door close and smiled to himself. For a moment there, he’d thought she was going to kiss him. He’d held his breath, willing himself not to move, not to think about closing her in his arms. He could still smell her scent in the air as he rolled over onto his back and stared up at the ceiling. Damn, he was going to have to take a cold shower. An ice-cold one.

You’re enjoying this way too much.

He smiled at that thought. Hell, yes.

It struck him that he wanted her to like him.

He groaned at the thought. “Let’s not lose sight of what’s at stake here, all right?” he said to himself as he threw back the quilt. “Eventually she’s going to find out the truth and you’re going to be a bastard again.”

So true. He headed for the shower, unable not to remember the night before and the naked woman he’d held in his arms as the warm water cascaded over her skin. He turned the water on cold and threw himself under the icy spray.

He’d just gotten out and dressed when he heard a knock at the door. He thought about ignoring it but whoever it was knew he was in. His pickup was parked right outside.

He opened the door, disappointed to find Drew Lane standing there. He’d rather hoped that Rozalyn had come back to wake him with that kiss.

“Mother thought you might like to join us for breakfast,” Drew said as he tried to see past Ford into the room. “Unless you have other plans. Then we’re all going to the hospital to see how Liam is doing.”

Obviously Drew had discovered Rozalyn wasn’t in her bedroom and thought she might be here. “Please give my apologies to your mother but I do have other plans.”

Drew glanced at Ford’s still damp dark hair. “Mother will be disappointed,” he said, sounding angry.

“Tell her thanks for the invite. Maybe some other time.” Ford closed the door and watched with too much satisfaction as Drew scowled and turned to head back through the garden to the house.

Ford reminded himself that if he was right, someone had drugged Rozalyn last night and got her up on that widow’s walk railing. That someone could have been Drew Lane. But now wasn’t the time to confront him about the chocolates. First Ford had to be sure they’d been drugged.

He hoped Drew would think that Rozalyn was under his watchful eye—if not in his bed. Both were a lie. But then, Drew didn’t know that, did he?

As Ford left the house, he thought about what else? Rozalyn Sawyer. What if she really had been at the top of that waterfall last night to jump? What if she hadn’t been sleepwalking or drugged? What if she was more damaged by her mother’s death than even he was by his father’s?

Then the urine sample he had sealed in a container on the seat beside him wouldn’t show any drugs, he thought as he drove to the lab and dropped it off.

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