Secrets by Jude Deveraux

Author:Jude Deveraux [Deveraux, Jude]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Romance, Adult, Contemporary, Mystery, Cassandra Madden & Jefferson Ames
ISBN: 9781451634358
Google: Glp1DwEACAAJ
Barnesnoble:
Goodreads: 1791659
Publisher: Atria
Published: 2007-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

She shrugged and said, "Intuition," then she went to the front of the boat and asked Brent what was wrong.

"Leo's hurt his leg. I think we better go back," Brent called out. "There's a lot of blood."

"I bet there is," Cassie said under her breath, then turned to smile at Jeff. He was frowning at her in a way that made her wish she hadn't told him as much as she had.

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Part of her wanted to tell Jeff everything, but she didn't think he'd listen to her. What she

needed was some proof, then she'd be able to back up whatever she said about Leo Norton. If

she had proof that he wasn't what he seemed, then maybe Jeff would believe her — and tell

her the truth about what was going on.

Cassie stepped back and watched the others quickly load the boat. Once they were in open

water again, heading back to the cabin, she turned to look at Leo. He'd wrapped a towel

around his leg and it was bloody, but he was sitting there quietly looking at the water and

didn't seem to be in pain.

She was willing to bet that there was no wound under the bandage. On impulse, Cassie got up

and went to him. He was so astonished that he didn't say a word until Cassie bent down to put

her hands on the towel.

"What're you doin'?" he yelled.

"I thought I'd look at your cut," she said.

"Look, baby, I want you to take off my clothes, but not now, not in front of ever'body. Unless that's the way you like it."

Cassie again bent to go to his bandage. "Just let me look at the wound. It's still bleeding, so maybe it needs pressure on it. Maybe you cut a vein."

"I didn't cut no bleedin' vein," he snapped, then clamped his mouth shut as he glared at her.

"All right," she said sweetly, then returned to her seat. He'd said "bleeding." A person couldn't get more English than that.

As Cassie took her seat, she saw that the other three were looking at her in surprise. They

know, she thought. That's why Jeff wouldn't listen to her. All of them know that Leo isn't who

he seems to be. Only she was in the dark, and not privy to their secrets.

It was a quiet trip back to the cabin dock, and the silence gave Cassie time to think. It was as though all of them thought of her as a child. She knew that was Jeff's problem. He thought

because he was eleven years older than she was, that she was a kid. Hardly older than his

daughter.

As they pulled into the dock, she made a vow to herself that she was going to show the lot of

them that she was an adult as much as they were, and that she could keep secrets as well as

they could.

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