Bride of Fortune by Leanne Banks

Author:Leanne Banks [Leanne Banks]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2000-05-14T22:00:00+00:00

The following day Jasmine’s words stayed with her, and she couldn’t help seeing Jason in a different way. The two of them spent the afternoon setting preliminary policy for the teen pregnancy center.

“I really admire your commitment to this issue. Some children’s hospitals don’t want to touch it.”

He leaned back in his leather chair and tossed his pen on the desk. “We couldn’t not touch the issue. My grandmother, Natasha Lightfoot, was nineteen when she became pregnant with my father and his brother,” he said, then paused and looked away. “My wife became pregnant the first time when she was nineteen.”

“The first time?”

“She miscarried,” he said, and Adele sensed, as she always did, that Jason’s wife was a difficult subject for him. He looked at her, and she could tell by the glint in his gaze that a subject change was coming. “My mother told me she had lunch with you yesterday. I asked her what was her secret.”

“Secret for what?” she asked, clueless.

“Secret for getting you to join her for lunch,” he said.

Adele felt a rush of warmth from the hint of edgy but controlled passion she saw in his eyes. She wished she didn’t identify so easily with that same edgy passion. She wished she felt more control.

“So what is her secret?” he asked.

Adele’s mind went blank. “I, uh—” She bit her tongue to stop her blasted stammering. “She doesn’t affect me the same way you do,” she blurted out, and immediately wanted to melt into the Southwestern carpet beneath her feet.

He gave a wry smile that was entirely too sexy. “I suppose that’s good.”

Adele glanced down to avoid Jason’s gaze and caught sight of her watch. She gasped. “I didn’t realize it was so late. It’s 6:30. I bet your daughter’s going to jump you when you get home.”

Jason shook his head as if he saw through Adele’s diversionary tactic. “Lisa’s already attending a combination birthday, slumber party at a friend’s house.”

“Oh,” Adele said, feeling her stomach do strange things at the expression on his face.

“I thought dinner at—”

The phone rang, interrupting him. Jason frowned. “Who would be calling at this time?” he muttered, then picked up the phone. “Jason Fortune,” he said. His eyes widened in shock. “An accident at the hospital construction site?” he echoed.

Adele watched his face grow taut, and her blood turned cold through her veins. Jason stood and walked toward the window. “Was anyone else hurt?”

Adele’s heart sank. She watched Jason hang up the phone, his entire demeanor shrouded in shocked grief. “There’s been an accident at the site,” he told her in a too-calm voice. “The temporary service elevator crashed. Our construction foreman, Mike Dodd, was in it. He’s dead.”

“Oh my God,” Adele said. “What—”

“I need to go to the site right now,” he said, raking his hand through his hair. “But I also need to call the other members of the board.”

“Would you like me to call them?” she asked, desperate to help.

He gazed at her as he decided. He nodded.

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