Where the Heart May Lead by Elizabeth Mowers

Author:Elizabeth Mowers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-03-09T18:56:24+00:00

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CHARLIE GRIPPED THE top of the steering wheel and tried to concentrate on anything rather than Paige. He was having more trouble reading her from one moment to the next. First, she seemed happy to come for dinner, then she wanted to bolt from the house, and now she was cozying up to him—well, verbally anyway. Whatever was going on with her had to stop. He couldn’t afford to get hurt again.

Then there was the driver’s license. It was long expired. The name was different. He hated to ask and seal his participation in some sort of charade with her he couldn’t understand, but as he caught her glancing over at him, he knew he was already in too deep.

“Are you some sort of secret agent or something?” he said. It was meant as a joke, a way to break the ice and find out what the heck was going on, but she laughed a little too hard. It made him cringe.

“Is that what you think?”

“No.”

She looked out her window for a few moments before whispering. “Maybe I am a spy.”

He pulled off the main drag and cut toward the sports shop. It was in the opposite direction from her motel and when he did it, he noticed her tense.

“Nah. You’re too kind to be a spy.”

“What do you think then? I can tell you’re curious.”

Charlie drove for a while in silence, considering what it was he did assume about her alternate name. After a minute he pulled the truck around behind the shop close to the beach and cut the engine. He eased back in his seat and noticed her fingers flex on the tops of her thighs as well as how she had sucked in a breath. He didn’t want to let her off the hook. He wasn’t the serious type, but he wanted someone to think twice before lying to him. He had to guard himself a little more intensely so he wouldn’t fall into a similar situation like he had been in with Crystal. Perhaps Paige wasn’t the one, like he had thought, and fate had sent her to remind him of that hard-learned lesson.

“I’m going to ask you this one time, and I want you to be honest with me. If you can’t be honest, then we’ll end this right here and now. You can go about your life, and I can go about mine. We’ll part as friends.”

She nodded. “Fair enough. But first, can I ask why you brought me here?”

He looked out over the horizon as the sun inched closer to the water. Maybe he was a hopeless romantic at heart and was betting that she was the kind of woman who you could depend on. And if she wasn’t, this place would soften the blow.

“I have my reasons.”

She stared at her hands for a moment before looking back up into his eyes. “Okay, Charlie.”

“Is Willow Beckett your real name?”

Paige cringed at his question, or was it at the sound of

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