Snowbound Security by Beverly Long

Author:Beverly Long [Long, Beverly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-01-31T16:03:30+00:00

Chapter 11

Rico watched Laura, Hannah and his mother walk out the door and counted to fourteen before his sister caught his eye and motioned him to step out into the hallway.

“What’s up?” he asked, once they were a safe distance from his father’s door. Placido might be seventy-two but his hearing was that of a thirty-year-old’s.

“I’m glad you’re here,” she said.

He felt a but coming.

“But...”

Bingo. “But what?”

“Do you think that this is the best time to introduce your girlfriend and her child to Mom and Dad?”

He reached for calm. But it was a slippery son of a gun. “I can see Mom and Dad jumping to crazy conclusions but come on, Charro, I expect more from you.”

She stared at him. “I’ve known you since you were a child, Rico.”

“Of course you have. You’re two years older.”

“And you always get a certain look in your eyes when you care about something. And you’ve got that look in your eyes when you look at her and her daughter.”

“First of all, Hannah isn’t her daughter. Laura is her caretaker.” Maybe that was true. “And second, it’s really not any more complicated than I explained. We both ended up in the cabin, a booking error, and we rode out the storm together. I didn’t want to leave her alone for the duration of the storm. Certainly not with a small child.”

“Whatever,” Charro said, reverting back to being thirteen. “I’m worried about him,” she said, looking back at the room.

“He seems to be in pretty good spirits. Mom, too.”

“Neither of them wants us to worry.”

“I get that,” he said. “But Dad’s always been healthy. If they can get this heart problem fixed, he could live for a lot longer.”

“We should have a big family gathering this Christmas,” she said. “Invite Mom and Dad’s siblings and all the cousins. They would like that. Maybe when you’re home for the class reunion.”

“Class reunion?”

“Yeah. A couple guys from your class stopped by a few weeks ago. Needed your address to send you an invitation.”

Alarm skittered up his spine. He wasn’t sure why but he’d learned a long time ago to trust his instincts. Maybe it was the disturbance outside the cabin that had no explanation. Maybe it was the odd call from his building’s security desk with the crazy story of the two men wanting to deliver a bookcase that Rico hadn’t ordered. Which made Rico remember that he’d not yet seen the footage from his building’s security camera. He would have to check on that. “What did you tell them?”

“I didn’t tell them anything. I got home from work and they were at my house, talking to Peter. I took them to Mom and Dad’s house.”

In this day and age, who went door-to-door looking for addresses? That’s what social media was for. Plus, he’d seen Maddy Bristol just days ago. She would have mentioned something about a class reunion. “Who? Who were they?” he asked.

Perhaps sharper than Charro could have anticipated, because she pulled back. “I have no idea.

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