The Secret Father (The Calvert Cousins 1) by Anna Adams

Author:Anna Adams [Adams, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary, Romance, Fiction, Forever Love, Family Life, Young Mother, Pregnant, Newspaper, Reported Deceased, Pilot, Navy, SIx Years, News Broadcast, Small Town, Sheriff, Head Injury, Plane Crash, Lost Memory, Amnesia, Non-Custodial Father, Little Girl, Divorced, Abandonment Scars, Second Chances, Difficult Ex-Wife, Parenting
ISBN: 9780373711543
Goodreads: 2015174
Publisher: Harlequin Superromance
Published: 2012-03-15T04:00:00+00:00

BETH STARED through the window over her kitchen sink, searching as far down the driveway as she could see. Zach and the children and Olivia should have arrived by now.

Zach had asked if they could come by long enough to duck the reporters who’d picked the Dogwood as their only stop on a tour of Bardill’s Ridge.

Beth assembled her materials for the evening’s crocheting class, then she checked the toys she’d set up in the living room. Zach’s beloved Lincoln Logs and the race car and track that made the house smell like an electrical fire. She’d found two paint-chipped yoyos and a jump rope that must have been Molly’s or Sophie’s. Did kids play with toys that didn’t include video screens these days?

She’d do anything to help Evan feel at home here.

She bit her thumbnail, scanning two back copies of Relevance that stuck out above the other magazines in the rack beside her chair. Should she shove those into a drawer? Having the magazine’s top editor in for cookies felt odd.

The phone rang, and Beth left the magazines, breathing a sigh of relief. It had to be Zach, explaining where they were. He knew how she worried.

“Hello?”

“Zach Calvert, please,” said a man with no time for anything except business. Probably a reporter who thought she’d sprang stupid from the Smoky Mountains.

“He doesn’t live here.”

“I believe he’s brought my grandson to visit a Mrs. Beth Calvert? That would be you?”

“I’m Beth.” She considered cussing at the man who’d brought extra pressure to bear on her son.

“I need to talk to Zach. Now. Put him on, please.”

Who’d died and made this guy supreme being? “He hasn’t arrived yet. May I give him your message?”

“What do you mean he hasn’t arrived? My daughter and Evan are with him. They left their hotel half an hour ago according to another Ms. Calvert I spoke to.”

Eliza. “We’ve had some reporters in town,” she said pointedly. “He’s probably trying to shake them so they don’t follow him here.”

Silence and static came over the line. “Ms. Calvert, my daughter won’t take my calls or e-mails right now. Perhaps you’d also give her a message for me?”

“I might.” As long as it wasn’t some pompous order to call him the second Olivia stepped out of Zach’s car.

“Tell her I fired the butler.”

His officious attitude annoyed her, but Beth laughed in relief. “I’ll gladly tell her. And would you still like Zach to call?”

“Yes. His former commanding officer just placed a call to me, and I’m willing to entertain Zach’s thoughts on the information I should give the admiral.”

Her forehead knotted in an instant headache. “I’ll pass that message as well.”

“Thank you, Ms. Calvert.”

“Beth.” She didn’t mind a truce since he’d fired the big-mouthed butler.

“Thank you. Beth.”

“You’re welcome, Mr. Kendall.”

“Please call me James. Have you seen Evan?”

“He’s a bright, funny, loving little boy. He hauled his sister away from the reporters as if they were the hounds of hell.”

“Trust me, they most likely are. I suppose you wouldn’t

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