Too Much: A Loveswept Contemporary Erotic Romance (All or Nothing) by Lea Griffith

Author:Lea Griffith [Griffith, Lea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780553390698
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2014-06-10T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

“Got to see Father Dearest tonight, huh?”

Daly threw her purse and keys as hard as she could and ran for the door.

“Damn it, Day-day—it’s me!”

She stopped on the threshold and turned around slowly. “You jerk! How’d you get in here?”

Toby held up a key and grinned.

“I’m sick of my house being broken into,” she grumbled as she picked up her purse and keys and set them on the coffee table.

“You ran like a little chicken shit. I know now why you couldn’t cut it as a cop,” he said with a laugh.

“Yuck it up, Chuckles. You won’t think it’s so damn funny when y’all are calling somebody to bail your asses out of jail for B and E,” she spit out.

“It’s not breaking and entering if—”

“Yeah, yeah, yeah, if you have a key,” she returned in frustration. “Assholes. So now everybody has a key to my house? And why are you here, anyway?”

He sat down in her recliner and raised an eyebrow. “Really?”

Daly crossed her arms over her chest and took a deep breath. “Yeah, really.”

“Copeland sent me,” he responded and shrugged.

“Figures. I guess it would kill you to visit me on your own. How long’s it been, Toby? Three years?”

“Actually, it’s only been about three days,” he said with that patented Toby grin.

“You know what I’m talking about,” she said firmly. It seemed that all the men in her life did was leave. Her father, Jeremiah, Toby. Okay, she’d actually left her father and Jeremiah, but wasn’t there a law somewhere that said big brothers should never abandon their little sisters? On the heels of that thought was another about Jeremiah. He’d never left his sister.

Something had happened to her brother. Something really bad that involved more than the damage to his face. She missed him so much. He’d been the most important person in her world after their mother died. Toby had watched over her as she grew up, taking the brunt of their father’s constant displeasure and always making sure she was kept far from the ugliness of his tirades.

His expression changed to a sheepish one. “You know I was always watching, Day-day.”

She grabbed a pillow and threw it this time. He caught it, laughed, and threw it back.

“Sit down, Daly. We need to talk.”

She sighed but remained standing. “ ‘We’? Wrong pronoun. If you have something to say though, feel free.”

“Someone is following you,” he informed her in a hard voice.

Daly snorted. “Yeah, you. And you aren’t very good at it. I see that ostentatious car everywhere I go.”

He snorted. “You’re vocabulary is still frou-frou, I see.” He sighed and his face sobered. “It’s not one of ours, Daly.”

She ignored the comment about her vocabulary and pounced on the second half of his statement. “You act as if you have an entire team of special security agents at your beck and call, Toby.” She crossed her arms over her chest. Her hands were cold and she fisted them.

Toby just sat there and stared at her.

Well, shit.

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