Secrets at the Summit by Sarah Varland

Author:Sarah Varland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2022-06-15T15:46:38+00:00

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No one knew where Ellie was. Seth had called his next-door neighbors to ask them to let him know when she arrived, and he’d just gotten a text from them that her car was there, the dogs were there, but that she wasn’t.

Please let her be all right, he prayed.

He’d woken up on the ride to the hospital and thankfully stayed conscious since. The bullet had gone through, he learned when the doctor examined him, and there wasn’t a need for surgery, though he had needed a blood transfusion. He felt woozy and exhausted, but he was alive, and he needed to see that Ellie was, too.

Because something had been nagging at him. Even though they’d gotten the head of the organization—Jared—he could still have other people out there willing to do his dirty work for him, like someone had done the night Ellie’s tent had been set on fire.

“Seth.”

He heard her voice, and he smiled, relief and love flooding through him. “You’re here.”

“You’re alive.” She moved toward him and took a seat in the chair beside his bed.

“Are you okay? I realized you might not be safe, still. We have to be careful in case anyone else—”

“It’s over.” Ellie shook her head. “The person calling the shots is in jail.”

“Even with Jared—”

She shook her head. “Not Jared.”

His eyes widened, and fear threatened to choke him, but Ellie was sitting here next to him, clearly okay, so he needed to calm down. “Who?”

“Halley. She came to the house.”

“Where is she now?”

“The police have her. Apparently she came to tie up loose ends, and I was one.”

“But you’re okay.”

Ellie laughed. “I’m right here, aren’t I?”

He wasn’t ready to laugh yet. This had been the longest nightmare of his life, stretching over years, and he wasn’t taking any more chances. If he’d been fully conscious and cognizant earlier, he never would have let Ellie go off on her own.

“She started naming names the second we got in the car. No one we know besides Jared and Aaron. I think most of her workforce, if you will, is in Anchorage. But she decided if she was going down she wasn’t going alone. The police are rounding those people up now. We are really free, Seth. I mean, besides the trial and the testifying.” She made a face. Then smiled a little. “It’s over.”

He pushed himself up against the mattress to try to sit up.

“No, keep resting. Do you need anything?”

“Just...” Should he have this conversation in a hospital bed? Seth wanted to wait, for his pride, but he’d lost this woman once, and he had no intention of losing her again. Ever, if he had a choice in the matter. “Could we talk?”

She nodded. “Yeah. We can.”

“It’s about this.” He motioned between the two of them. “Are we... Could we... I was thinking maybe we could...just see where life took us?” He was fumbling through this, badly. But as she stared at him with those incredible eyes, he realized they were

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