Harlequin Romantic Suspense May 2020 Box Set by Lara Lacombe

Author:Lara Lacombe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 2

Both of them. Adam swore to himself over his lousy timing. Quinn Foxworth and Amanda. He would have turned around and come back later if Amanda hadn’t spotted him. But running would only prove her right. Although why that mattered when he already knew she was right, he wasn’t sure.

And so now here he was, about to be face-to-face with the two people who knew the complete truth. The man who, when he’d thought he was innocently stopping for a cup of coffee had ended up doing what Adam should have done that night, and the woman whose life had been forever changed by his mistake.

He made a sharp movement with his right arm, trying to force it. As always, it replied with a jab of pain and a refusal to bend any farther. But the pain was what he’d needed, and he had a grip on his roiling emotions again. Enough that he could at least face Quinn, who was looking at him assessingly, and with a recognition beyond that of realizing who he was.

“Adam,” he said quietly.

“Mr. Foxworth.” He said it respectfully, although he doubted it would make any difference to this man. He glanced at Amanda, who was glaring at him with such hostility he wondered how he was still on his feet. “I’ll…wait,” he said, and turned away from her without saying anything more. He walked a few feet to his right, belatedly realizing someone was there. A woman. But no one he knew.

“Adam.”

He stopped, blinking, as the woman called him by name. “I…don’t know you, do I?”

“We’ve never met, no. I’m Hayley, Quinn’s wife.”

“Oh.” He didn’t remember Quinn having been married before.

“Almost a year now,” she said, as if she’d heard his thought. “We met a little over two years ago when he kidnapped me and my dog.”

Adam blinked. “He what?”

“It’s a long and, if I do say so myself, entertaining story. But not something you want to hear just now, I’m guessing.”

“No, Mrs. Foxworth. I need to get…out of Amanda’s sight. If I’d realized she was here, I would have waited until she was gone.”

“Hayley, please. And I understand. She does seem a bit…angry.”

He let out a sour chuckle. “Angry isn’t the half of it.”

“She still blames you?” At his look she nodded. “Quinn told me the story. And,” she added, “he said it wasn’t anyone’s fault. And more, that you probably saved his life, after he was shot.”

“He’s more generous than he should be,” he said flatly.

“I certainly wouldn’t argue that, although not in the sense you mean.”

“Amanda’s father died because I didn’t check carefully enough before I went inside the store. He had an accomplice still outside who killed Greg. Nothing can change that.”

He had never forgotten anything about that day, no matter how much he would like to. And even if his mind had cooperated his right arm, the elbow shattered by a gunshot, wouldn’t. The limit on its range of motion reminded him multiple times a day, and every

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