Ethan's Daughter by Rachel Brimble

Author:Rachel Brimble
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Superromance
Published: 2017-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

LEAH WAS ABOUT to press her car horn to hurry Ethan along when he emerged through her front door and headed to the car. Once he’d snapped on his seat belt, she put the car into first gear and pulled away. “What kept you back there? I thought you’d lost your way out.”

“I had a phone call.”

She noted the concern in his voice. “And?”

“And Anna’s here.”

“Here in the Cove?”

“Yes.”

“Right.” Leah tightened her hands on the steering wheel as dread knotted her stomach. A dread she had no right to feel, having never met the woman. “So what’s her plan? Your plan? I’m assuming you’ve told her about the latest pictures?”

“Yes.”

“What did she say?”

He shifted in his seat, his voice quiet. “That she can’t understand why whoever sent them would make contact with someone who has nothing to do with her. I told her you have something to do with me and that is likely reason enough.”

“Right.” She drove farther into town, fighting to keep her concentration on the road. “Are you going to see her after we’ve spoken to Cat?”

“I’ve asked Anna to meet us at the station.”

“What?” Alarm shot through Leah and she flicked her gaze from his to the road and back again. “I need to pull over.”

“Leah, it will be all right.”

“No, Ethan, it won’t.” She turned off the main road and into a side street. “I don’t want to meet her.”

He frowned. “Why not? She’s not going to cause you any harm. Are you worried about the knife incident? I’m pretty confident that was a one-off. She isn’t going to try anything—”

“It’s not that.” She pulled the car to a stop and twisted in her seat, fighting to keep her irrationality under control. “Look, I care for you and Daisy. Clearly, too much, if the trepidation I’m feeling is anything to go by. Anna’s gotten mixed up with dangerous people, and now they could be in the Cove, could endanger her daughter.” Shame heated her cheeks. “Having said that, I know Anna didn’t deserve to be beaten up just for witnessing something others would’ve preferred she hadn’t.”

Leah turned away from his dark blue eyes and stared along the street, ashamed of her lack of forgiveness. “I hate that she left you and Daisy the way she did.” She faced him. “I hate that she abandoned her child and now she’s putting her at risk. But maybe Anna has reasons to come here and those reasons justify everything that’s happening.”

His jaw tightened. “Nothing can justify what is happening.”

“Really?”

He frowned. “What?”

Leah sighed. “Look, I’ve had cases at the hospital where things are happening mentally with a patient that lead them to do things that, on the surface, seem incredible. If a person is depressed, suffering from anxiety issues, agoraphobia... Anything like that can cause someone to act irrationally. What was Anna like when you married her? What happened for her to see no other alternative than to walk away?”

“She was just unhappy. She—”

“She must have been more than unhappy, Ethan.

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