Deadly Beginnings by Jaycee Clark

Author:Jaycee Clark [Clark, Jaycee]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
Published: 2014-02-06T05:00:00+00:00

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He might as well tell her all. “They saw around to my way of thinking rather quickly. Even offered to keep you on as long as you preferred to work there, references to wherever you’d like to go. I might have mentioned someone sabotaging Johns Hopkins.” He took another deep breath. “So technically, you can still work there, though they want you to wait until all this blows over.” He shrugged. “As I agreed on that point, I didn’t argue. Basically, you’ll be safe for now, have your job back once the bastard is behind bars, or references if you choose to move.”

Now he looked at her.

She stared at him, a slight frown on her brow. “You did what?”

He ran his tongue around his teeth and stopped at the next light. “Kaitie, what he did was wrong on every level. I just made certain he doesn’t get to enjoy things as he is accustomed to.” He wondered if he should mention he’d also found out the bastard owed quite a bit on his house. Jock bought the note from the bank, having gone to school with the bank’s CEO. Matter of a few phone calls.

Jock owned the bastard’s house, made certain he wouldn’t work in any Baltimore hospital, and he was just getting started.

“Jock,” she said softly.

He looked back at her. “I know, it was overstepping. I know that. But I had to do something. Some damned thing to pay the bastard back for what he did to you. For the way he made you run away from things you loved, from a life you enjoyed.”

“But I ran to the lake. Found you,” she tried.

He reached over and cupped her jaw. “You did and that’s a bright point, but the fact is, you ran there because you were scared. Of a man. Who put his hands on you. A man whom you had to defend yourself against.” A horn blared behind him. He turned onto the street their hotel was on. “Be glad I didn’t find him. Otherwise, I’d have had to get a friend or my brother to drive you down here. I don’t know that I could talk my way out of a murder rap if I’d seen him.”

He heard her sigh, saw her cross her arms over her chest as they crossed the Potomac.

“I guess I should be thankful you only want to annihilate him, rather than torture him to death.”

He grunted.

“Annihilation only, Jock?”

“No torture? You are such a demanding woman.” He zoomed his car into the turn for the Highland Hotel and zipped around another car as he parked under the portico. He leaned over and kissed her cheek.

“I don’t believe I want to visit you in prison.”

“Yes, that would be a drawback,” he said, opening his door. He waved the attendant off as he opened her door.

She stood and he held her elbow. She was wearing wide Jackie O sunglasses, but she didn’t want a hat. She wore jeans and a peasant blouse, and her hair hung down her back in a bright copper wave.

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