SANCTUARY by RACHEL JAMES

Author:RACHEL JAMES [JAMES, RACHEL]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Adams Media
Published: 2015-09-08T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Logan held his stance, waiting for the bedroom door to close behind Sonny. He realized he must look like a lovesick fool to the group around him. An absolute idiot, his inner voice agreed. You’re acting as if the woman’s welfare is a personal matter.

The truth was not that kind, Logan knew. His concern was simply ego-driven. He hated not being in control of an investigation from start to finish. And more than that, he hated feeling like he had been thrown into the middle of a hungry pack of wolves. A feeding frenzy was coming; he just didn’t know from which family member it would come.

Whirling around with a sigh, he found Charlotte Fletcher standing close behind him. She was staring at him as if she couldn’t quite fathom what kind of meal he would make.

“I don’t approve of you and Sonny working together,” she stated rudely. “She has a full schedule of clients on her calendar already. To ignore them, and concentrate on solving a case of serial killings, can only jeopardize her health, as well as her reputation.”

The attack took Logan by surprise, but he didn’t show it. He smiled at her instead. “Sonny assures me that my time here will be brief. She’s already studied the case files and evidence. I’m waiting for her to render a verdict, and then I’ll be out of your hair.”

No answering smile came his way, just an icy retort. “I’ve seen the way you look at Sonny. And I saw the way she molded herself against you when you kissed her. Sonny’s extremely impressionable. It’s easy for her to misinterpret a cavalier kiss as something binding.”

Logan suppressed a sudden urge to strangle the woman in front of him. He had wondered how long it would be before someone took potshots at the kiss he and Sonny had shared in the cottage. Charlotte Fletcher was the first, and hopefully she’d be the last.

“If I’ve learned anything since meeting Sonny, it’s that she never misinterprets her feelings for anyone. She’s too bright, too articulate, and too in tune to her talent to make that mistake. The kiss was spur-of-the-moment on my part, and Sonny shut me down quite thoroughly after it.”

“Did she indeed? Perhaps I’ve misjudged her.”

Logan heard the mocking sarcasm in the words and knew the woman was not pleased with his explanation. She gave him a last stony glare, and then, as if he was nothing more than a lowly amoeba on the scale of evolution, she shifted her attention to the activity going on in the computer room above.

Logan let his grin surface. “No need to freeze me out, Mrs. Fletcher. I already got the message loud and clear.”

“And what message is that?” she asked, not bothering to glance his way.

“That men looking for a marriage partner are unwelcome in Sonny’s life.”

“Well, as long as you know it, we needn’t spend any more time discussing it.”

She left him then, moving up the staircase towards the activity beyond the French doors.

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