Hard to Forget by Annette Broadrick

Author:Annette Broadrick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2001-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Six

They were on the outskirts of town when she yawned. “Sorry,” she said. “I stayed up too late last night reading.” She certainly wasn’t going to admit that she’d had a restless night because of him.

He gave her a sideways glance through his sunshades. “As I recall, you were always a bookworm.”

“True. I generally preferred the lives I read about to mine.” As soon as she made that statement, she wished she’d kept her mouth shut. What was it about this man that caused her to blurt out her most intimate thoughts?

“I’m really surprised that you decided to return to Santiago. I remember you talked as though you could hardly wait to leave.”

“Well, those feathers you see at the corners of my mouth are the remains of the crow I had to eat. The truth is, I didn’t know where else to go when I was laid off. I know that something in my field will turn up eventually.” She glanced at him. “What made you choose to come back?”

Joe thought about that for a moment, then said, “I always knew that I’d end up coming back as long as my mother was alive. Someone needed to be around to look after her, although she’s too independent to allow anyone to hover. I try to drop in every day or two without being obvious and check to make sure everything is okay.”

This guy is too good to be true, she thought. If he was making extra money by smuggling, he sure wasn’t keeping the money for himself, from the looks of his place. She might learn more after going through his paperwork, but she doubted she would find anything incriminating or he wouldn’t be so willing to hire her.

But that didn’t mean that he wasn’t looking after his mother and any other relatives with the extra cash. Regardless of motive, if he was doing something illegal, she intended to prove it, regardless of any feelings she might harbor for him.

The problem was that she wasn’t feeling quite as eager as she had at first. That was the trouble with knowing a suspect too well. Human beings were multifaceted creatures. No one was totally good or totally bad. Well, maybe there was true evil lurking in some, but she didn’t see it in Joe.

For his sake and for his mother’s sake, she sincerely hoped he was playing by all the rules. Unfortunately the fact that he was related to another suspect in this case made it more likely that he was involved in whatever was going on.

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