Red Hot by Lisa Childs

Author:Lisa Childs
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

12

THE DOOR TO her office opened with a creak. Fiona looked up quickly, but disappointment extinguished her faint hope. It wasn’t Matthew standing in her doorway.

He hadn’t talked to her in the week since he’d discovered Wyatt sneaking out of her house. Neither had Wyatt...

Maybe she was even more disappointed that it wasn’t him who’d come to see her.

“Don’t look so thrilled,” Tammy said as she leaned against the doorjamb. She wore red today and looked exceptionally beautiful.

“I’m sorry,” Fiona replied. “I’m just very busy.”

“Bullshit.” Tammy called her on it with the honesty borne of years of friendship. “You’ve been moping around for a week. It’s Friday night. You’re not working anymore.” She came around her desk and opened the bottom drawer where Fiona kept her purse. She pulled it out by the strap and plopped it down in front of her. “You’re leaving. Now.”

“I have things I have to finish up—”

“Bullshit!” Tammy said again. She reached across Fiona and pushed the power button on the monitor; the screen went black.

Like Fiona’s mood.

“You need to get out of this office,” Tammy insisted. “You need some fresh air and sunshine.”

Her friend was right. Fiona needed to stop sulking in her office. She wasn’t actually accomplishing anything but wallowing in self-pity.

She stood up and slung her purse over her shoulder. “Where are you taking me?”

“The club...”

“So much for fresh air and sunshine,” she murmured. Not that the sun would be out much longer; it was already beginning to set outside her office window.

Tammy chuckled and slung her arm around Fiona’s shoulders. “Okay, I should have said alcohol and sexy men.”

Fiona tensed. There was only one sexy man she wanted to see. Was he mad at her? Did he believe what Matthew had—that she’d only been using him?

Guilt tugged at her. That was what she’d been telling herself. So was she a user or a liar?

“Stop thinking about the firefighter,” Tammy admonished her.

She’d given Tammy a blow-by-blow of that horrible morning, and she’d kept her updated that neither man had contacted her again.

“I’m thinking about Matthew,” she said—which was true, too. “I don’t know if Wyatt caught up with him. I don’t know what they talked about. And Mandy hasn’t seen him, either,” Fiona said. Which was no surprise, since their mother didn’t even know where he was staying. If she did, Fiona could have tracked him down and talked to him. Maybe she could have convinced him that she had only his best interests at heart.

“That’s why I need to talk to Wyatt,” Fiona continued. “I need to see if he knows where Matthew is and if he’s okay.” She had no doubt that Wyatt would know. And she would have called and asked him for those whereabouts, but she’d been afraid to call him. She was worried that he was furious with her—as Matthew was.

She’d gotten used to her brother resenting her. She didn’t want Wyatt to hate her, too.

“You want to know more than that,” her friend said, calling her out on another lie.

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