Lethally Blonde by Nancy Bartholomew

Author:Nancy Bartholomew
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2005-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

When we arrive back at the Paradise Ranch, exhausted but triumphant, I find a short note taped to Marlena’s cage. It is in Sam’s handwriting and reads, “I need to see you alone. I have something for you. S.”

Something for me? I open the cage doorway and Marlena scampers into my arms and up onto my shoulders. “What does the cowboy have for Mommy?” I ask the disgruntled ferret. But if Marlena knows, she’s not telling.

“Come on, baby,” I whisper. “Let’s go see the nice man who has something for Mommy. If Mommy doesn’t like her present, I promise, you may bite him.”

When I find him, Sam is sitting out by the pool, reading. He looks up as I approach and indicates a chair next to him.

“I hope you don’t mind,” he says, when Marlena and I sit down. “I took the liberty of following up on our talk last night.” I must look puzzled because he prompts me. “You know, about losing your father?”

A sudden sense of dread overwhelms me. “What have you done?” I ask quietly, fighting to control my voice.

“Well, you seemed pretty upset about not being able to find your Dad and that P.I. of yours coming to a dead end, so I called a buddy of mine up that way. He’s retired state patrol.” Sam frowns. “You know, he found your father right off. I don’t know why the guy you hired him couldn’t locate him.”

Probably because I made that part up, I scream silently.

“You found my father?” My voice cracks on the word father and for a second my throat feels funny, like it’s closing up on me.

Sam reaches over and hands me a piece of paper. “That’s his address and phone number. Jeremy and Zoe are editing all day tomorrow, so they’ll be working. There are no social activities on tomorrow’s calendar, so you’re free all day.”

I look at him, not comprehending what he’s trying to tell me.

“I can take you up there, if you’d like,” he says. “It’s a little less than an hour away. It’s a real nice little town—a lot of celebrities have their mountain get-away cabins in the hills around Carlito.”

The world is moving too fast now. It’s one thing to know about my father, but confronting him is quite another. What if he doesn’t want to see me? What if he really is a horrible person and not at all the laughing man of my memories? Furthermore, I have a job to do. I have to stay close to Jeremy. I can’t go running off to see my long lost father!

I jump up and Marlena almost bounces off my neck. She digs her little claws into my cashmere Mizrahi shrug and emits a series of frightened squeaks.

“Thank you,” I say, in a voice that doesn’t even resemble me. “I believe Andrea said she’s booked us in at Skin Spa, so tomorrow’s looking kind of full.”

Sam is watching my hands and when I look down, I see that I have twisted the piece of paper he’s given me into a tight coil.

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