Sail Away by Lisa Jackson

Author:Lisa Jackson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1992-06-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

He’d blown it. With Marnie. With Victor. With Montgomery Inns.

Adam threw his few new belongings into a nylon bag and slung it over his shoulder before heading to the office of the fleabag of a motel he’d called home for the past week. He’d stayed in Chinook Harbor, knowing Marnie had checked into a hotel on the other side of town. Several times he’d tried to contact her. So far, she hadn’t responded.

He didn’t really blame her.

Ever since the confrontation with Victor in the parking lot of the lodge, Adam had relived the scene over and over again in his mind. He should have anticipated the outcome. Marnie, furious with all of them, had left without so much as a glance over her stiff shoulder, and Adam had felt the unlikely urge to run after her. And what? Apologize? Ridiculous! He couldn’t start letting a woman foul up his plans—especially when that woman was Victor Montgomery’s only child, his princess.

As for Victor, the old man had looked as if he wanted to kill Adam right on the front porch of Deception Lodge. Somehow, Victor had managed to control his thirst for blood and had, instead, made a big show of kicking Adam off Montgomery property. Victor had been white with rage, shaking as he’d chained the front door and slammed the padlock shut, swearing and threatening to call the police.

“This is it, Drake,” he’d growled, his voice so hushed Adam had barely heard it over the sound of the surf. “You’ve pushed me too far this time. The inns were one thing. Money, I can always make. But my daughter…” By this time Victor’s lips were bloodless, his blue eyes colder than ice. “I’ll never forget how you used and humiliated her to get to me. If you breathe one word of this to anyone, I swear I’ll call the authorities and then I’ll personally wring your worthless neck!” With that, he’d stalked to his car, and Adam, every muscle aching with restraint, hadn’t lunged at the man, nor begged forgiveness. He’d just stood there and when Victor had opened the door of the Mercedes and stared at him, Adam had met Victor’s unwavering hate-filled gaze with his own steady scrutiny.

Victor’s reaction had been predictable. As had Marnie’s. The odd man out had been Simms. Everyone else had acted right in character. Victor had been the indignant, furious father; Marnie a proud woman who’d discovered that her lover hadn’t cared for her. But Simms had been strangely quiet and subdued for a jilted fiancé.

Thinking of Marnie, Adam winced. She had been an innocent in all this. Sure, she’d been in love with Simms, but she’d never done anything directly against Adam. In fact, if she were telling him the truth, she’d protested his innocence to the board of directors of Montgomery Inns and she’d trusted him not to hurt her.

He closed his eyes, willing the image of Marnie’s beautiful face from his mind and concentrating instead on Simms—the man she was supposed to marry.

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