Undercover Avenger by Rita Herron

Author:Rita Herron [Herron, Rita]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2004-12-12T23:00:00+00:00

GUILT NAGGED AT ERIC as he rode with Melissa to the funeral. It was ironic. His entire life, he’d helped other women escape horrible family lives, yet this woman was trying to protect him, when he should be the protector.

Devlin’s words reverberated in his brain. Use her to get close to Hughes.

He didn’t like using people, especially innocent women. And Melissa was about as innocent as they came. Kind, caring, honest, compassionate. Alone.

All she’d wanted was to find the woman who’d given her birth and to understand why she’d been abandoned.

She knew nothing about Hughes, he was certain of it.

But unfortunately, she had walked into a bed of lies and danger she was not equipped to handle.

He cut his gaze toward her. Uncertainty plagued her features as she parked in front of the Savannah church. On the ride over, she’d stopped at a florist shop and bought a bouquet of fresh flowers. A goodbye offering for a woman she’d never met, a person who’d left her as a baby to fend for herself in the world.

Yet Melissa still cared about Candace, which proved she was a loving, forgiving woman.

Several cars lined the church parking lot, although it was by no means full, a sad testament to the life of the lady who lay inside in a casket ready to bid her final goodbye. Seconds later, more cars rolled in, all expensive makes and models. Affluent people emerged dressed in black, obviously friends of Robert Latone’s who’d come to pay their respects and possibly win his favor. Eric wondered if any of them actually cared about the woman inside, then realized he was projecting his feelings about his own mother’s death on the visitors, and remembering the near-empty church where they had held her service.

A service his own father had not attended.

Only Cain had stood beside him, fending off the concerned social worker and assuming the role of a father figure to Eric. He’d have to thank his brother the next time he talked to him. Eric had never appreciated how much Cain had sacrificed to take care of him. He’d been angry, hurt, confused—not an easy kid to parent.

But nobody had cared for Melissa.

He would be there for her now.

Eric placed a hand over hers, the flicker of heat igniting between them. “Are you sure you want to do this?”

She nodded and curled her fingers into his, her voice stronger now. “Yes, Eric. I have to learn the truth.”

God, he felt for her. “Robert Latone will be here.”

“I know.” She squeezed his hand. “And I doubt he’ll be very happy to see me.”

Probably an understatement. “But you don’t intend to let Latone intimidate you?”

“Whether Candace was my mother or not, I feel connected to her, Eric. There had to be a reason I was the one who discovered her body that night.”

Eric remembered his father’s abusive behavior. The unfairness of it all. “Sometimes there are no reasons, Melissa. Things just happen. People are in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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