The Newlyweds by Elizabeth Bevarly

Author:Elizabeth Bevarly
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Contemporary, Oregon, Fiction, Romance, General, Love stories
ISBN: 9780373613939
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2005-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

When all was said and done, Charlie Prescott was a pretty weasely, mean-looking character. Everett didn’t know why he hadn’t noticed that before. Probably because he’d been sitting in a dark bar having a drink on his way home from work, and Charlie had made a point of seeing to it that Everett had had another drink. Then another. And another. By the end of that first evening with him, Everett could have been told that Charlie looked like Marilyn Monroe, and he would have believed it.

Of course, his willingness to trust and like Charlie was probably as much a result of his lifelong loneliness as it was his temporary inebriation. Everett hadn’t had many friends growing up—or any, really—and he’d been so grateful for Charlie’s fellowship that he’d let himself believe it had only come about because he genuinely liked Everett. He should have known better. Because now he understood that what he’d thought was Charlie being his friend was only Charlie manipulating him. Using him. It wasn’t because Charlie liked him. No one had ever liked Everett. Well, until Nancy. But if she found out about all the things he had done, she’d want no part of him, either.

And now it was too late for Everett to undo all the things he’d done. He’d even done things that, if discovered, could send him to jail. Despite his realization that Charlie had only befriended Everett because he wanted something he couldn’t get by himself, Everett was powerless to sever his ties to the man. He was in way too deep. And even though he now knew Charlie to be someone capable of murder, Everett still couldn’t break free of the man, because Charlie was blackmailing him now, reminding him that if Charlie—otherwise known as the Stork—got caught, he’d take Everett down with him. And if Everett tried to leave town, Charlie had promised to frame him for everything that had happened, including the attempt on Nancy’s life. He’d sworn he would pin all the crimes on Everett alone. And Everett didn’t doubt for a moment that Charlie would—and could—do it.

Everett’s only hope now was to try and bargain his way out of his relationship with Charlie in whatever way he could. Then he’d try to do the right thing from here on out, live a decent life and hope like hell no one ever found out about his involvement in the black-market baby ring and everything else.

He only hoped Charlie would let him bargain his way out of the relationship. Because Everett didn’t want to be part of this anymore.

He would do anything to be able to turn back the clock to that first night at the bar when, too drunk to know any better, he’d told Charlie about the realization he’d made while working in the accounting office at Children’s Connection. About how the clients the Connection had turned away might potentially be gold mines, desperate to start families in whatever way they could. There were so many

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