Seduced by the Enemy (Blaze, 41) by Seduced by the Enemy

Author:Seduced by the Enemy
Language: eng
Format: epub

THEY FINALLY REACHED the cottage in Maine early Monday morning. Not much about the place had changed since the last time Jared had been here with Peyton, something he found oddly comforting, he realized. With a strange sense of coming home, an emotion that made him almost as wary as the feel of Peyton’s sleeping body beside his during the night, he hefted their bags out of the truck and followed her over the sandy path flanked by railroad ties and up the steps leading to the front door. The vinyl siding was new and the railing surrounding the porch that stretched across the front of the cozy seaside cottage had been repainted. Otherwise, time had virtually stood still. At least it did in the quaint cape town of Maine where Peyton had often come to escape, seeking a little downtime. Her sanctuary, she’d often called it, and he fully understood for the first time what she’d meant.

There was something inherently comforting about finding the key Harry kept under the plastic, urn-shaped planter overflowing with dried-out summer petunias. Just the sense of knowing that once they stepped through the door, they’d be safe, even for a brief period, offered a modicum of comfort in an otherwise terrible nightmare. Safe and able to pull themselves together, to find a way out of the insanity both of their lives had become.

He rolled his shoulders, still stiff from sleeping in the truck while Peyton drove. Before she had a chance to slip the key into the lock, the door to the cottage swung open.

The relief in Harry Shanks’s eyes was palpable as the old man immediately pulled Peyton into a tight embrace. “You had me worried sick,” he drawled in his heavy Maine accent. “Are you all right?”

Peyton dropped her purse, burst into tears and clung to Harry. The old man inclined his head toward the entrance. Jared took the hint to make himself scarce. Picking up her purse, he walked into the cottage, giving Harry a moment alone with Peyton.

Jared had been waiting for her to have some sort of a meltdown, and it had finally arrived. Her tears did what her words and a few hours of sleep could not, alleviating his irritation with her for putting them in further jeopardy by using her cell phone back in Pittsburgh.

She’d known the risks, yet she’d blatantly chosen to ignore them. All because she’d needed to advise Kellie to find a warm body to cover a hearing on a motion for some jerk who would probably walk, and to let Atwood know she was safe. Surely she had to have realized that Atwood’s phone might be tapped. Perhaps even her secretary’s. Jared didn’t want to believe she’d intentionally been trying to lead the feds to their location. No, the truth of the matter was far more disturbing, and something he couldn’t shake.

Had the old green-eyed monster really nipped him hard just because she’d felt compelled to call her fiancé?

Ridiculous.

Was he being unreasonable?

Definitely.

Was he

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