Harlequin Romantic Suspense August 2021 Box Set by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 2

Nothing hurt worse than worrying over a sick child. Lauren had crawled into Rayna’s bed around one in the morning, complaining of a headache and chills. When Rayna touched her little forehead, she’d realized her child was burning up with fever. A thermometer under the tongue confirmed it.

She’d dosed her with children’s ibuprofen, gotten her to drink some water, and they’d both finally drifted to sleep shortly before three.

The alarm clock went off at six. Lauren opened her eyes, bright with fever, and then let them drift closed. She’d been lethargic, refusing water or food. Rayna checked her temperature. Finding it still high, she placed a cool washcloth on Lauren’s forehead and went and woke her mother.

As soon as Wanda heard, she called Dr. Delpeccio’s home number, having confided to Rayna that he’d given her both that and his cell.

“He’ll meet you at his office at eight,” Wanda said once she’d ended the call. “His first appointment is at eight thirty, so he’s going to squeeze you and Lauren in. He’ll get her fixed up and good as new.”

One thing Rayna envied about her mother was Wanda’s absolute certainty that everyone loved her. With those kind of high expectations, everyone did. And with good reason. Wanda was the kind of mother who was always there for her, without judgment or comment. Just love.

When Rayna made the foolish mistake that almost cost her the career she’d worked so hard for, Wanda was the one who’d offered comfort. And then when Rayna learned she was pregnant, Wanda promised to help her with the baby, no matter what. That was what families did. Stick together.

Rayna hadn’t even told Jimmy Wayne he had a daughter. The one time she tried to contact him in prison, he told her he’d kill her if he ever saw her again. In fact, he said, his tone dripping with venom, he’d have one of his friends on the outside do the job for him. Even though she had nothing to do with the huge drug bust that brought him down—hell, she hadn’t even known he was involved with drugs or the cartel—he believed she was behind everything. Despite her denials, both to him and to the police department she worked for, everyone seemed to view her as the bad guy. A compromised cop.

Everyone, that is, except Wanda. Wanda knew Rayna had simply made a mistake, fallen in love with the wrong man. Lauren was the awesome result of that mistake, like a bonus rainbow after a particularly bad storm.

When the death threats had started coming in from cronies of the man Rayna had thought she loved, she’d worried about her mother first, before herself. So open and trusting, Wanda would never know what hit her in the event of an attack. That was why when Sam called with a job offer in a middle-of-nowhere town in dusty west Texas, Rayna had jumped at the opportunity. Sam hadn’t even minded that Rayna was pregnant.

Another bit of serendipity. She

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