This Hero for Hire by Cynthia Thomason

Author:Cynthia Thomason
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon
Published: 2014-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

SUSANNAH’S LIPS TREMBLED when she tried to smile. Of course, a smile wasn’t exactly appropriate in this situation, but she didn’t know what else to do. She could easily have cried. She was so thankful Boone had come. He looked so good sitting there, his hair mussed, his long legs spread out in front of him, his ankles crossed, his arms folded on his chest. Not that he looked happy. He didn’t. But he looked like the Boone she was used to. In command, ready to take charge.

“Thanks for coming,” she said, choking back shameful tears.

He didn’t make any move to sit up straight. His lips hardly moved when he said, “Oh, my pleasure. I wasn’t doing anything anyway.”

Cutting sarcasm. Yes, it was bad, but his reaction could have been worse. And she suspected he’d only just begun to express his disapproval.

“I’m sorry I didn’t tell you I was leaving the house.”

“Are you? Are you really sorry? Because I can think of a way you could have prevented all that regret.”

Ouch. “By telling you...”

“Yeah. I’m supposed to know where you are every minute. I’m supposed to be with you when you aren’t in your room. I’m supposed to protect you.” And keep you from getting arrested! “Besides all that, you made me look and feel like an idiot. I’m sleeping just a few feet away from your door now. I should know when you hiccough.

“Oh, no, you shouldn’t feel any blame. I was very quiet, and I’ve snuck out of that house many times. I...”

His cold stare cut her off.

“I understand why you’re so mad, but I also knew that you wouldn’t approve of where I was going and what I was doing.”

“As if that makes any difference,” he said, nodding his head almost imperceptivity. “But we can probably agree on that. And I’m not too happy that you avoided being seen by the regular patrols going by the house.”

She gave him a sheepish grin. “Well, I timed it just so...”

“Yeah, I get it. Let me tell you what I do know, Susannah. I know where the crime happened. I know when it happened. What I don’t know is why or how.” He narrowed his eyes. “It’s time for you to fill in the blanks.”

“You’re not going to like what you hear.”

“I’ve already figured that out. But if I don’t get a clear, truthful accounting of what happened, Susannah, I’m going to walk out that door and you’re on your own.”

She couldn’t let that happen. Boone was her only means out of this jam. She couldn’t call her father again. Albee had pretended to sympathize with her last scrape with the law, when she saved the chickens, but he would never support the action tonight. What her group did at the fertilizer plant damaged the property of one of the most powerful factions that supported her father. Not to mention they’d broken the law. If news of this latest escapade got out, not only would her father never speak to her again, he also might lose the election.

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