Revealed: His Secret Child by Sandra Hyatt

Author:Sandra Hyatt
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2011-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

Eight

Rafe Cameron looked up from his computer screen as Max entered his office first thing Monday morning. “You sorted out the problem with the journalist from the Seaside Gazette?” Like him, his boss wasted no time on preliminaries. It was one of the reasons they worked so well together.

Max lowered himself into one of the leather chairs opposite Rafe’s broad desk. “Gillian Mitchell. In a manner of speaking,” he said.

“Go on.”

“I married her. I thought you should know.”

Rafe’s brows rose as he contemplated Max. “Not you, too. Is there something in the water in this place?” For a moment Max didn’t know what he meant. Then he remembered that Chase Larson, Rafe’s stepbrother and money manager, had recently broken the news to Rafe that Emma Worth, daughter of the founder of the company Rafe was taking over, was carrying his baby. Shortly afterward the two had married in a quiet ceremony on the Worth estate.

Rafe leaned back in his chair. “I know I ask a lot of you, and you’ve always given the job your all. But that’s a little drastic. Even for you.”

“I didn’t do it for the job. There’s more to it than that.”

“I’m glad to hear it.” Rafe’s phone rang. He glanced at the caller ID. “It’s my dad. He’s just back from China so I ought to take it.”

Max stood. “I’ll go.”

Rafe shook his head. “No need. This won’t take long. I’m seeing them tonight. And I want to know what happened with the reporter.”

Max crossed to Rafe’s window. Between tall palms, and beyond the red-tiled roofs of Vista del Mar, a distant view of the Pacific Ocean sparkled. He could even glimpse the Tennis Club, so recently his home, up on its bluff. He tried not to listen in on the conversation between Rafe and his father, Bob, a man Max had met on a couple of occasions, a man he liked and respected. Bob and Penny, his second wife, had been on an extended sightseeing trip to China.

And even though Max wasn’t listening, it was impossible not to hear the changes in Rafe’s voice. Over the course of a few minutes his tone went from interested inquiry, to puzzlement, to the careful neutrality that Rafe used to conceal his feelings.

The call ended and Rafe put his phone on the desk in front of him and frowned at it for several seconds. “That was odd.”

“Something happen in China?”

“No. China exceeded all their expectations. It’s this Worth Industries takeover. Dad got funny about it.”

“I didn’t think he took an active interest in what you did with the business.”

“That’s just it. He doesn’t. Usually. But he’s worried I’m out for revenge.”

Max cleared his throat and Rafe grinned. “So, okay, maybe that particular worry is not without cause. But there’s something else going on. He started talking about revenge doing more harm than good. All deep and philosophical. It just wasn’t like him. Usually, if he has something to say he says it. Yet he was skirting around something then.

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