Pint - Sized Secret by Sherryl Woods

Author:Sherryl Woods [Woods, Sherryl]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, General, Mothers and Daughters, Single Mothers, Texas, Family & Relationships, Parenting, And Baby Makes Three, Women Geologists, Fatherhood
ISBN: 9780373243334
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2000-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

Jeb was on his way to lunch when he spotted Brianna getting into her car on the opposite side of the parking garage. For an instant his heart seemed to stop. He hadn’t realized she was back at work, though he had known her flight was due in the night before. He’d thought she would take the morning off at least to catch up on her sleep. He should have known better. She was as much of a workaholic as anyone in his family.He promptly called and canceled his plans to meet Tyler for lunch, then set out to follow her.

In the heavy midday traffic, it was all he could do to keep her car in sight as she traveled across town. Where the devil was she going in the middle of the day? He knew her routine almost as well as he knew his own. She never left the office unless she had a lunch meeting, and she always scheduled those for a nearby downtown restaurant to save time.

Could she be going to meet her secret contact? Was that why she was heading to some obscure, out-of-the-way location, so she wouldn’t be spotted?

He warned himself to stop imagining things, to stick to the facts. The only fact he had was that she was in her car, heading away from Delacourt Oil. His conversations with the seller of those mineral rights hadn’t given him any evidence directly pointing to Brianna. Nor had his terse phone call to Jordan Adams, who clearly resented the implication that he had been involved in anything shady. After that conversation, Jeb had been thoroughly chastised by Trish and then Dylan, both of whom had assured him that Jordan Adams would never do anything underhanded.

“He bought those rights out from under us,” Jeb countered. “How did he know about it, unless someone leaked the information?”

“You’d have to ask him that,” Dylan said. “But I guarantee you he didn’t buy the information. His son’s the sheriff over here. Where do you think Justin got his sense of right and wrong? Jordan’s as much a straight shooter as you’ll ever run across. And Harlan Adams, Jordan’s daddy, is the most honorable man in the entire state. It’s his moral compass that guides the whole family.”

Jeb had sighed and let the matter drop. Maybe Jordan Adams had come by the information legitimately, but the whole deal still smelled to high heaven and he intended to get to the bottom of it before Delacourt Oil was ruined.

That brought him back to Brianna. He followed her for nearly forty minutes as she led him eventually into a more residential area with shaded lawns and lush gardens. When she turned into a gated drive, he slowed and waited before turning in after her. He paused long enough to read the discreet sign on the gate: Corcoran Treatment Facility.

What on earth was she doing here? He took note of the neatly tended grounds, the man-made lake that was home to several ducks, the park benches on which several uniformed nurses sat.

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