Daddy Bombshell by Lisa Childs

Author:Lisa Childs
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-11-02T04:00:00+00:00

“WHAT THE HELL is the matter with you?” Ash yelled. “Why’d you go running after some malicious vandals unarmed?” He grabbed at Thad, patting the bulge under his jacket. “You’re not unarmed. What the hell are you?”

“Prepared,” he lied.

He hadn’t been prepared at all, so it was good that he hadn’t actually found anything more frightening than a half-frozen raccoon in the little alley behind Caroline’s house. He hadn’t even noticed that Mark’s snow family had been destroyed. As he stared at the trampled mounds of snow on her front yard, his gut clenched with regret and anger. That bothered him more than the damage to his car.

Whoever had done all this had been so damn close to the house.

If only he’d looked out the window and caught him. But instead he’d been giving Mark a bath and then trying to seduce Caroline into bed.

“Where and how did you get a gun?” Ash persisted.

“I’m not entirely without connections in this town,” he reminded his older brother.

Ash shuddered. “You don’t need the kind of connections that’ll hook you up with a gun,” he said. “You need to focus on your connections in that house—that woman and your son.”

“That’s why I needed the gun,” Thad admitted. “To protect them.”

Ash’s green eyes narrowed with suspicion. “What makes you so damn certain that they need protecting?”

He gestured at his damaged car and what had once been Mark’s snow family. “This…”

“It could have been vandals, like I told her,” Ash said. “The suburbs have been getting hit hard this holiday.”

“And Mark nearly getting abducted at the mall?”

“Could have been the mistake the security guards thought it—”

“Why didn’t whoever grabbed him bring him back to his mother then?” Thad said. “I thought you, out of everyone, wouldn’t be so damn naive and trusting anymore.”

Ash grabbed Thad’s jacket, his face tight with concern and impatience. “And why the hell are you so damn untrusting? Has there been a threat against you?” He glanced back at the house, where Caroline watched them through the front window. “Against them?”

Thad shook his head. “But my gut’s telling me they’re in danger.”

Ash sighed. “I’d put a car out front, but I need more than your windows shattered and your tires slashed to warrant around-the-clock protection. The best I can do is step up patrols in the neighborhood. I’ll send a car past every hour or so.”

Ignoring the pain in his wounded hand, Thad grabbed Ash’s shoulders and squeezed. “Thanks. It’ll help until I can convince Caroline to move her and Mark on to the estate with me.”

“You think the estate is safe?” Ash asked.

Given everything that had happened there, in the distant past and not so distant past when Natalie and Gray had nearly died at the cottage on the grounds, Thad couldn’t claim that it was. “I just want them with me.”

“And she won’t let you stay here?” His brother gestured at the brick Cape Cod.

“She doesn’t trust me,” Thad admitted.

“So she’s as smart as she is beautiful,” Ash remarked with a grin.

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