Explosive Engagement by Lisa Childs

Author:Lisa Childs [Childs, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary romantic suspense, Harlequin Intrigue, Fiction
ISBN: 9781460335215
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-05-31T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

So Logan lied. “We’re engaged.”

He wasn’t sure it would stop the attempts on their lives, but it would put him in proximity to the suspects to find out which one might be behind the attempts. Of course the Kozminskis hadn’t let him or his mother inside their house yet. But as their niece’s fiancé, they would eventually have to let him into their family circle. More important, the engagement would also put him in proximity to Stacy. Close proximity. To protect her...

“If you’re really engaged, then where’s the ring?” Marta challenged them.

Logan spared his mother a glance. She should have known her plan would never work; these people would not be easily fooled. They were used to running the con, not falling for it.

“I—I will design my own, of course,” Stacy replied.

“So he’s telling the truth?” Marta asked, still skeptical.

Stacy stared at him, surprised that he had actually lied, and nodded.

“Were you?” her aunt asked.

Stacy’s brow furrowed with confusion and she turned back to the older woman. “What?”

“When you told me that you didn’t understand your father’s last words?” she asked. “Were you telling the truth then?”

“Dad’s last words?” Milek repeated. “What’s Aunt Marta talking about?”

Logan was wondering the same. But his mother remained silent, as if she already knew. How close was she to Stacy?

“The warden called her to go to the prison,” Garek answered for her. “Dad was asking for her.” Was that bitterness or resentment in her brother’s voice?

Maybe he and Stacy had been completely wrong about them; maybe they didn’t love her as much as either had thought. Maybe that was why the engagement hadn’t stopped the shooting or the bombs...

“But he must have died before you got there,” Milek said as he reached out to squeeze her shoulder in sympathy. “He was mortally wounded.”

She swayed on her legs and leaned heavily against Logan’s side. This wasn’t easy for her—talking about what must have been a horrific last encounter between her and her dying father. How had Logan not known that she’d been there, that she’d seen the man she’d loved above everyone else die?

“He was alive,” she admitted. “But he was barely lucid.”

“But he said something to you,” Marta Kozminski insisted.

Her brow furrowed again—in irritation as much as confusion. “Whatever my father said to me was between him and me,” she said, her voice sharp with anger. “It had nothing to do with you.”

“It has nothing to do with her,” Garek agreed. “But he was our father, too. If he told you something, Milek and I should know what it was.”

She shook her head. “It was nothing...”

Marta sneered derisively. “Then you would just say what it was.”

Maybe the icy blonde woman was right. If it had been nothing, why wouldn’t Stacy just share it? Was whatever her father had told her the reason she was so convinced that he hadn’t been alone when his father died? That someone else had been involved?

He wanted to know the truth, too, but he didn’t want to press her.

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