JUSTICE IS COMING by DELORES FOSSEN

Author:DELORES FOSSEN [FOSSEN, DELORES]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ROMANCE - - SUSPENSE
Publisher: HARLEQUIN
Published: 2013-11-02T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

A chill snaked down Declan’s spine. He’d rarely seen Stella upset, but he was seeing it now. He was almost scared to guess what had put that look in her eyes.

Eden knew something was wrong, too, because she moved closer to him, taking his hand in hers.

“What about my parents?” Declan asked, and he tried to brace himself for an answer he was pretty sure he didn’t want to hear.

Stella looked away from him. She kept her attention nailed to her hands in her lap, but he could have sworn she was blinking back tears.

“Tell him, Stella,” Beatrice demanded.

Declan shot the woman a glare and was ready to toss her out of the building, but Stella finally looked up, met his gaze. He’d been right about those tears.

“I’m your birth mother,” Stella whispered.

Declan shook his head, certain he’d misheard her. “You’re what?”

“Your mother,” Stella repeated.

Okay, so he hadn’t misheard her after all, but it still took a moment to sink in. And when it did, those words came at him like a mountain being dropped on his head. The breath swooshed out of him, and because he had no choice, he leaned back against the doorjamb and let it support him.

“His mother?” Eden shook her head. “But his parents were killed in Germany when he was a boy.”

“His adoptive parents were killed.” Stella paused, blinked back more tears. “They were friends of friends with no link whatsoever to me. It had to be that way.”

None of this made sense. “Why?” he managed to ask, and that one question could be about so many things. Declan didn’t even know where to start.

“I’d just found out I was pregnant with you when someone tried to kill me,” Stella continued. “I left the state. Tried to hide. But someone found me and attacked me again. That’s when I left the country using a fake passport, and I gave birth to you in Germany.”

Declan’s head was pounding now. The thoughts flashing through them. The memories of his parents—meager memories, at that—were all lies. He wasn’t the man he’d thought he was.

And Stella had spent decades lying to him.

He leaned down, still using the jamb for support, and he got right in her face. “Why didn’t you tell me?”

“Because I was afraid someone would try to kill you.” Despite the tears and shaky voice, she didn’t hesitate. “The same person who tried to kill me.”

“Someone killed my family,” he reminded her, and he hated the anger in his voice. Stella was already on the verge of losing it. But he couldn’t stop himself. Everything was crashing down on him.

Stella nodded. “I think they were murdered because someone was trying to get to you, because they found out you were my son. That’s why you were sent to Ireland to be with Meg, a distant cousin of mine. But soon the threats started again, so I had you moved around from place to place.”

“Until Meg dropped me off at Rocky Creek,” Declan supplied.

“Yes.” Stella paused again.

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