The Agent's Secret Child by B. J. Daniels

Author:B. J. Daniels
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction - Romance, Romance: Modern, Amnesia, Contemporary, General, Romance, Romance & Sagas, Adult, Historical, Romance - Contemporary, Mothers and daughters, Fiction, Non-Classifiable, Romance - General
ISBN: 9780373225859
Publisher: Silhouette Books
Published: 2000-04-15T04:00:00+00:00

JAKE TOOK the trail down to the house, surveying the dirt road and the familiar hills around it. Elena was at his side. He knew he hadn’t been followed from Alpine. Traffic had been light, and once he’d turned at Study Butte, he’d had the road to himself.

Nor did anyone know about this place. Not even Mitchell. Or the FBI. The only person he’d ever shared it with was Abby. And now his daughter.

As he pointed out the different mountains in the distance to Elena, he felt himself beginning to relax. He hadn’t been back here in years. But he had kept the place after his grandfather died. A couple from town took care of the upkeep and he kept his name off the title, burying it under a variety of company names and addresses.

He hadn’t done it out of paranoia, but the simple desire for privacy. Study Butte was too much of himself. He hadn’t wanted to share that part of him with anyone. Except Abby.

He turned to look back at her. Her dark hair shone in the sunlight. It swung around her shoulders as she moved toward him, her hips swaying, thighs strong and muscular against the denim of her jeans, the soft hint of her breasts beneath the embroidered top.

“Did you see the mountains?” Elena asked excitedly. “Daddy says they named a canyon in Big Bend just for me. Santa Elena Canyon. He says the walls of the canyon are so high and narrow that the river roars through it. The Apaches used to believe that anyone who went into the canyon would never be seen again.”

Abby laughed, the sound heartrending.

Jake wished there was a place that the three of them could go and never be seen again.

“Can we go there someday? Can we see it?” Elena pleaded.

Abby ran a hand over her daughter’s dark hair and smiled. “Yes,” she said after a moment. “I suppose we could someday.” She looked up at him for confirmation.

“Definitely. The three of us.”

Elena squealed in delight and ran to the car to help with the groceries.

He could see the doubt on Abby’s face. “No one knows about this place but you and me. It’s going to be all right.”

She nodded.

“Or is it me who has you worried?”

She seemed to study him for a moment, then shook her head.

He stepped closer to her, his fingers caressing her smooth cheek as he brushed back her dark hair. Her body came to him as if drawn by magnetism. Or something much more powerful.

He turned her, spooning her body to his as he wrapped her in his arms so they were both facing east. “That’s Big Bend,” he whispered. “And someday we’ll take our daughter there to see her canyon.”

Abby leaned back against him. Her scent mingled with the desert’s. He closed his eyes, breathing it in, letting himself believe for that moment that she was finally starting to trust him and that they were safe.

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