Her Secret, His Duty by Carla Cassidy

Author:Carla Cassidy [Cassidy, Carla]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Contemporary, Suspense, Romance
ISBN: 9780373278664
Google: Ks5CAgAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00FTQUO60
Barnesnoble: B00FTQUO60
Goodreads: 18774825
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Debra stared at Trey in stunned disbelief. He and his brother Thad had come into the bedroom just after breakfast to tell her the news that somebody had cut her brake lines. Somebody had obviously tried to kill her.

“But who? And why?” She was seated in a chair next to the bed, clad in her nightgown and robe. She raised a trembling hand to her head, where a pounding had begun. None of this made any sense. How could this be happening to her?

“That’s what I want to talk about with you,” Thad said. He remained standing with a small pad and pen in his hand as Trey eased down onto the foot of the bed. “We were hoping you might have some ideas for us.”

She looked from Thad to Trey and then back again. “Ideas? Ideas about who would want to hurt me? Who might want to kill me? There’s nothing for me to tell you. I can’t imagine anyone doing something like this to me.”

“You were lucky you weren’t killed,” Thad said, his hazel eyes hard and intent. “At the very least you could have been hurt badly.”

“It has to be some sort of a mistake,” Debra protested, her heart taking up the pounding rhythm of her head.

She felt as if she’d once again taken a plunge into the sea of insanity, like her items disappearing and then reappearing, like the guest list found in the freezer.

Somehow, someway, this was all part of her craziness because it felt impossible that Trey and Thad were here to tell her that somebody had intentionally tried to kill her by cutting her brake lines.

Maybe she should mention those other things to Thad? Perhaps she should tell him that she felt like somebody was trying to gaslight her, that she couldn’t possibly be as absentminded as she’d been over the past couple of weeks.

She immediately dismissed the idea, certain that one thing had nothing to do with the other. Her absentmindedness didn’t cut her brake lines and telling him about the other things might only manage to muddle the case.

“Have you had problems with anyone? Old boyfriends you’ve ticked off?” Thad asked. “People maybe you worked with on the event that you might have rubbed the wrong way?”

“No, nothing like that,” she replied.

“There is an old boyfriend,” Trey said and Thad looked at him and then gazed back at her expectantly.

“Barry. Barry Chambers. He owns Chambers Realty, but he wouldn’t want to hurt me. We broke up weeks ago. He’s old history and in any case he’s not the type of man to do something like this.”

“Who broke up with whom?” Thad asked.

“It was a mutual thing, but he broke up with me before I got a chance to kick him to the curb.” Once again she raised a hand to her forehead, where she knew her bruise had already begun to take on the colors of green and yellow. “The breakup was quite civilized, done in a public place over dinner.

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