Harlequin Desire October 2013 - Bundle 1 of 2: Yuletide Baby Surprise\A Beauty Uncovered\A Cowboy's Temptation by Catherine Mann

Author:Catherine Mann [Mann, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Hey, Brody. Here’s what you asked for. Nothing newsworthy on this one. Didn’t I run a background check on a secretary for you a few weeks ago? You’re going through them like tissue paper, man. Hope this one works out better for you. Let me know if you need anything else.

Sam’s stomach sank. Attached to the email was a background investigation on a woman named Deborah Wilder. From Mickey’s message, it sounded like this Deborah woman was her replacement. Because despite what he told her Saturday night, he was going to use her and toss her away like Luke had.

Tears stung Sam’s eyes as she opened the file and pressed the button to print the paperwork as requested. The first page had a picture of the woman. She was thirtysomething with dark hair and a round face. A little chubby. Not particularly attractive, but not unattractive, either. DMV photos were never the most flattering.

Sam’s hands were shaking as she picked the pages up off the printer. Looking into the brown eyes of her replacement fueled a fire in her stomach that turned her tears into anger. How dare he ask her to print out the information on her replacement! Was that his way of breaking the news to her? He couldn’t even tell her face-to-face?

She snatched the last page of the background check off the machine and pivoted on her heel toward his office. She slung the heavy door open, sending it banging against the wall and swinging back.

Brody stood up, startled, when he heard the racket. His smile of greeting immediately faded into a concerned frown when he saw the furious expression on Sam’s face.

“What the hell is this?” she asked, holding the pages up. “Is this how you planned to get rid of me? You can’t even tell me to my face?”

The lines of confusion in Brody’s forehead deepened as she spoke. Then his gaze darted to the papers in her hand and the photograph of Deborah Wilder on top. “Now, hold on,” he began, but Sam didn’t listen.

“You know, I believed you when you said you wouldn’t sleep with me and toss me aside. Ignorant of me, right? Stupid, trusting Samantha always believes what men tell her.”

“Just stop!” Brody yelled over her tirade.

Sam quieted down, but she was far from calm. Her heart was pounding, and her cheeks were hot and flush.

Brody turned to his computer and swore at the screen. “I forwarded you the wrong message,” he explained. “I wanted you to print out the quarterly financial reports.”

That didn’t make Sam feel any better. “So you’re still replacing me, but you didn’t want me to know yet. Nice.”

“No,” he insisted. “You’re not being fired. Or replaced. I don’t want you to go anywhere, Sam. Why would you think I would do that to you after everything that happened between us?”

Sam straightened the paperwork in her hand and started reading Mickey’s words back to him. “You’re going through them like tissue paper, man. Hope this one works out better for you.

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