The Bounty Hunter's Baby Surprise by Lisa Childs

Author:Lisa Childs [Childs, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-03-07T14:56:50+00:00

Chapter 13

“This doesn’t look like jail,” Lillian said as Jake closed the hotel door behind them. He had rented a suite, but since he’d had to pay cash, it wasn’t fancy. But at least it looked clean with freshly vacuumed commercial carpet on the floor and crisp linens on the bed.

As safe houses went, though, it wasn’t that safe. Not with walls in common with other rooms and only the one door in and out. But his safe house was no longer safe, either, since it seemed like everybody in the whole damn city knew where it was. Not only had Kuipers’s men tailed him to it, but the O’Hanigans knew where it was, too. And after the shooting, it was damn likely that the police were sitting on it now, wanting to figure out what the hell had happened there.

“You thought I was bringing you to jail?” he asked, surprised.

But it was clear from the paleness of her face and the way she trembled that she had been scared that he was. She hadn’t tried to talk him out of it, though. There had been no pleading or manipulation. Since they’d left the lawyer’s office, she hadn’t said anything at all, until now.

“We didn’t find the flash drive,” she said. “So you probably think I’ve been lying about it all along.”

Not even a Davies could feign the disappointment that had shown on her beautiful face when the flash drive hadn’t turned up in her lawyer’s office. Tears had welled in her ears, and her bottom lip had appeared to tremble slightly.

“I think you’ve been lying to yourself,” he said.

Her brow furrowed as she stared at him. “About the flash drive? I risked my life breaking into my old office to download those files to it. I didn’t make that up.”

“I know,” he said. And he did. He also flinched at the thought of the risk she had taken—alone—when she’d done that.

“You should have called me,” he said.

Her blue eyes widened in surprise. “What?”

“When you got arrested,” he said. “You should have called me.”

“Why?” she asked. “So you could talk Seymour Tuttle out of posting my bail? He told me that you made him swear to never bail out another Davies.”

Tuttle had broken that promise, so Jake didn’t feel too bad about breaking his to bring her to the bail bondsman’s office. “Yeah, I did tell him that...”

She sucked in a breath like he’d punched her.

“But I didn’t think you would ever get arrested,” he said. At first, he’d been so shocked. Then after that, he had been both disappointed and relieved. He still couldn’t decide if he would rather she had lied to him eight months ago or now...

“You actually would have helped me,” she asked, her blond brows arching with skepticism, “had I reached out to you?”

He nodded. He wouldn’t have been able to help himself, just like he couldn’t now.

“Why didn’t you ever contact me?” she asked, and her voice cracked with emotion.

And he knew that he’d made a mistake—maybe an even bigger mistake than in deceiving her in the first place.

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