The SEAL's Secret Heirs by Kat Cantrell

Author:Kat Cantrell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-02-02T16:00:00+00:00

Eight

When the phone rang, Grace almost didn’t answer it.

The oven had freaked out. Worse than last time. It turned on and heated up fine, but halfway through the cooking cycle, the element shut off. Cold. Which described the state of her dinner, too. The roast was still raw inside and she could have used the potatoes to pound nails.

But there was no saving it now. The oven wouldn’t start again no matter how much she cursed at it. She’d checked the power cord but it was plugged in with no visible frays or anything. Last time, she’d been able to turn it off and turn it back on, but that didn’t work this time.

So why not answer the phone?

Except it was Kyle. His name flashed at her from the screen and she stared at it for a moment as the wow from earlier flooded all her full-grown woman parts. So this was taking it slow? Calling her mere hours after she’d broken off a kiss with more willpower than it should have taken—for the second time?

“This better be important,” she said instead of hello, and then winced. Her mama had raised her better than that.

“It is.” Something that sounded like a tornado siren wailed in the distance. “Something’s wrong with Maddie.”

That was Maddie doing the siren impression? Relapse. Her heart rate sped up. Those harrowing hours when they didn’t know what was wrong with Maddie came back in a rush. Heart problems were no joke, and Maddie’d had several surgeries to correct the abnormalities.

“What’s wrong? Where’s Hadley?” She might be hyperventilating. Was that what it was called when you couldn’t breathe?

“She and Liam went to Vail. I didn’t want to bother them.”

Vail? Suspicion ruffled the edges of Grace’s consciousness. The couple had just gone to Vail a couple of months ago. Was this some kind of covert attempt to get Kyle to take his fatherhood responsibilities more seriously? Or an elaborate setup from the mind of Kyle Wade to get his way with Grace?

“Okay,” she said slowly, feeling her way through the land mines. “Did you try—”

“Yep. I tried everything. She’s been crying like this for an hour and it’s upsetting Maggie. I wouldn’t have called you otherwise.” He was trying hard to keep the panic from his voice, but she could tell he was at the end of his rope. Her heart melted a little, sweeping aside all her suspicion.

It didn’t matter why Liam and Hadley had gone to Vail. Maddie—and Kyle—needed help, and she couldn’t ignore that for anything.

“Do you need me to come by?” She shouldn’t, for all the reasons she hadn’t stayed with him in the barn earlier that day.

Plus, and this was the kicker, he hadn’t asked her to come over. Maybe it was supposed to be implied, but this was typical with Kyle. He had a huge problem just coming out and saying what he thought. That might be the number one reason she hadn’t stayed in his arms, both back in high school and today.

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