MM2 - Keeping Christmas by B.J Daniels

Author:B.J Daniels
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: ISBN 978-1-4268-6181-9
Publisher: Harlequin

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DIXIE COULD SEE that Chance was having the same trouble she was, trying to understand what she’d found – and why it had put her life in jeopardy.

“Before you tell me I’m crazy, you should know. Glendora Worth is still alive. From what I’ve been able to find out, her name is Glendora Ferris now.” Dixie hesitated, bracing herself for his reaction to the rest of the news. “She’s widowed and living in an apartment for elderly people in Livingston.”

“Montana?”

She nodded. “Don’t give me that look. I came to Montana to hire you just like I said. It’s not my fault Glendora Worth Ferris just happens to live here.”

“So what did she say when you saw her?”

Dixie shook her head. “I haven’t yet. I wanted you to go with me. To keep me safe.” She glanced at him. “Okay, I didn’t want to go alone. Are you happy?”

He smiled. “You were smart to wait. If you’re right…” He stopped as if catching himself. “I’m not saying I’m buying any of this – especially the part about your father trying to have you killed, okay? And you can’t be certain this Glendora Worth is your mother’s sister, right?”

“No. But what if she is?”

“Then you would have an aunt you knew nothing about,” he said. “But it wouldn’t give anyone a motive to want you dead. This isn’t much of a secret, Dix. So you have an aunt.”

“And a brother who died.”

“Did you find any record of a Beauregard Bonner Junior?”

“No,” she had to admit.

Chance raised a brow as if that proved something.

“That’s why I have to see this woman. If she really is my aunt, maybe she can provide the answers I need.”

His gaze locked with hers. “What if your father is trying to protect you?”

“By having me killed?”

“I’m serious, Dixie. Maybe there’s a reason he doesn’t want you to know about this.” He waved a hand through the air. “Maybe it’s painful. Or dangerous.”

She laughed. “Apparently it is. You still don’t believe I was abducted in Texas, do you? You think I made it all up? Why would I do that?”

“To involve me in this.”

Her heart was beating too hard, her pulse loud in her ears. “I can’t believe you. I knew my father would try to find a way to stop me from getting to Glendora. I just never dreamed it would be you.” She picked up the photographs and put them back in her purse. “I think I’ll turn in early. I haven’t had much sleep the last few days.”

“Dixie.”

She started toward her room, but turned to look back at him. “By the way, you didn’t use the lodge phone to call my father, did you?”

He looked surprised.

“Because if you did, then he knows where we are.” She nodded. “You just signed my death warrant.”

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