Alaskan Mountain Murder by Sarah Varland

Author:Sarah Varland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-02-06T16:02:52+00:00

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“You should have waited for me to be there.” When he was done tucking Will in bed and came back downstairs, Jake wasted no time telling Cassie what had been on his mind. He’d been working in his study earlier, detailing some of the search notes for the last few days, when he’d been attacked by a six-year-old boy who’d excitedly declared that Jake was his dad.

He was elated Will knew and happy he didn’t have to keep it a secret anymore. He hated secrets.

But she still should have waited for him. He tried to be understanding and not overreact about the entire situation, but the frustration was all building over this one issue. He could feel it, identify it logically, and still it was hard to deal with.

“Couldn’t you have let me be part of that one thing, Cassie? I’ve missed everything. And you had the chance to share this with me because I was right here in the same house and you still couldn’t do it?”

The hurt flickering in her eyes wasn’t lost on him.

But what was he supposed to do?

God, how are we ever supposed to work this out?

“I’m sorry.” Her voice was soft, but something in her tone made him meet her eyes. She wasn’t self-abasing or being manipulative with her apology to elicit sympathy. She was really just that sorry.

Jake nodded. “Thanks.” Focusing on something else for now might be a better idea, he realized, and moved to sit in his favorite chair. Probably he should have sat down before having that last conversation at all. Two people sitting always made for more equal ground in discussions, whereas one standing made it feel unbalanced from the get-go.

“So about those books,” he started.

Were those tears she was blinking back? He thought they might be, but didn’t know if they were for her aunt or the way they’d both handled things with Will.

Maybe both.

“What about them?”

“Do you think the library has them?” Jake couldn’t say he’d ever searched the library for books about the town. He’d been born in Anchorage and then brought back to his parents’ home in Raven Pass at just a couple of days old, so town history was something he’d assumed he knew.

If someone was stealing books for information and potentially killing over it, he suspected he didn’t know everything there was to know about the town.

“I would think so.” Cassie shrugged. “Which means stealing my aunt’s was worthless unless she had written things down in them.”

“Did your aunt know any town secrets?”

Jake was mostly joking, but Cassie looked lost in thought.

“Cassie?” He called her name, but she still didn’t respond. He waited.

“I would have said no.” She shook her head. “But... I don’t know... She was so strange about that office, Jake. Why did she make me write down books I checked out like a real library? Was she really that obsessive? Or did she not want me to read certain books?”

“You never read the ones about Raven Pass?”

“No.”

“Do you know anyone who did, or anyone she might have shared them with?”

“No.

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