Hot Attraction by Lisa Childs

Author:Lisa Childs
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-04-12T16:00:00+00:00

13

“IT WAS ARSON,” Avery said.

Kim glanced up from the hearth. “It doesn’t look like the fire did more than burn a single sheet of paper.”

“Not that,” Avery said. “I’m not sure what that was about.”

A warning? The arsonist knew where she lived; he’d put the note under her door. Had he been inside that night she’d been so spooked? That had been the night she didn’t lock her doors.

Had he burned the paper Dawson had found in the fireplace?

Kim shrugged. “It was probably just left from the last renters. I already told you that the weather was so warm I didn’t think anyone would have started a fire.”

And when Kim had told her that earlier, it had made sense because Avery had thought she’d been overreacting. But she wasn’t overreacting now. The arsonist knew where she lived.

An arsonist didn’t start a fire for warmth. He started it for pleasure. He got some kind of sick satisfaction from destroying things.

“But you always clean so well when the renters leave,” she said.

Kim sighed. “I’ve been distracted since...”

“That fire,” Avery said, and anger coursed through her again. Her sister had been terrified since that horrible day her children had been missing in the wildfire. “That’s the one that was arson.”

Kim tensed and turned away from the fireplace, almost as if she couldn’t bear the sight of the ashes. “Someone deliberately set it?”

Avery nodded.

“Dawson Hess told you that?”

“Hell, no.” Her anger intensified to fury that bubbled over again. He’d slept with her—more than once. But he hadn’t shared anything with her—about himself or the fire. He’d just shared his body.

His incredibly hot, sexy body...

Heat flushed through Avery. But it was just anger. She was so pissed, yet strangely hurt, as well...

She’d let Dawson get to her in a way no man ever had before. She’d been drawn to his heroism, to how he’d protected her nephews. And she’d been even more attracted to his modesty over that act of heroism. He hadn’t wanted any credit for it.

But it was more likely that he hadn’t wanted any more attention drawn to the fire. He hadn’t wanted the truth to come out.

Kim tilted her head and studied her. “Why do you think it was arson, then?” she asked. “There has never been any mention of it.”

“Nobody’s considered that it could have been?” Avery asked. She needed to learn more before she determined what to do about the note. She could turn it over to authorities. But...

Kim shook her head. But her face had tensed, lines pulling tight around her mouth. She looked older than thirty-two now. Those long hours worrying about her children had aged her.

“What?” Avery asked, and her concern was for her sister now—for how ill she suddenly looked. “What did you think caused the fire?”

Kim uttered a ragged sigh as she admitted, “Rick and I and the other parents kind of suspected that our campers might have inadvertently started it.”

Avery gasped. “The kids? You think the kids caused the fire that

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