The Fire of Home by Alexis Harrington

Author:Alexis Harrington [Harrington, Alexis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2014-11-03T16:00:00+00:00

That night, Amy tossed and turned so much in her bed that she untucked all the sheets. They’d wadded themselves up into such a small bundle, she lay huddling at a bottom corner of the mattress hugging her pillows. Finally with a huff she got up. In the dim glow of a veiled half-moon that shone through the window, she remade the bed and sank back into its depths.

For the past two days and nights she’d asked herself the same question. What on earth had compelled her to give away good money to protect Bax? It was bad enough to have to pay that thug, Milo, to keep him from telling Adam his vulgar lies about an invented relationship between her and Bax. But to keep Bax’s past a secret, too? A past, she realized, that could have been an invention of Milo’s as well. And if it was true—God, what kind of man was he, what had he done to be sentenced to prison? Strangely, she had the feeling that he wouldn’t be happy about the sacrifice she’d made, but would instead be angry. There was no one else in the house who would inspire that much loyalty in her. Maybe not even another person in her life at this point. She’d not heard from Jessica again after the dinner invitation, and she wasn’t sure where to lay the blame for that—on Jess, herself, or Adam. She might learn tomorrow when she went to Jessica’s office to bring her home for Deirdre.

Where was Adam, anyway? She’d seen him that one time, and now he had an accomplice, an evil toady, spying on her.

Amy sighed and pulled the covers up to her chin with both fists. Despite what she thought Milo might know or could be making up, she knew there was no question that he was watching her. Bax had seen him from a distance, and he knew things he could have learned only by watching them.

And how long was she going to be able to get away with charging her current rate of room and board when the quality of the food had already begun to deteriorate? She had to find a way out of this—somehow. She’d hoped she’d at last escaped Adam’s tyranny, and had come all the way back to Powell Springs, endured the whispering and sidelong glances of her former neighbors, and taken over this boardinghouse for what? Only to live in terror too? To be run off from here again? Some secrets were necessary to keep. Others needed to be quelled by being shared.

On the other side of the wall, she sensed Bax sleeping, struggling with none of the troubles that plagued her.

It must be nice, she thought, to be able rest without carrying the weight of so many problems. She punched her pillow and tried to find that place.

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