No More Good (View Park Novels) by Angela Winters

Author:Angela Winters [Winters, Angela]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780758212641
Amazon: 075821264X
Publisher: Dafina
Published: 2011-07-02T08:00:00+00:00

8

“Carter, there’s someone here to see you.”

Sitting at his desk, Carter looked up from the Wall Street Journal in his hands and eyed the phone on his desk. Patricia, his assistant, always warned him fifteen, ten, and five minutes before an appointment arrived. And she always said the name. He didn’t need to check his BlackBerry to know he had no appointment scheduled.

“Send them in,” he responded as he tossed the paper on his desk and positioned his chair to face the door.

When Anthony entered with a threatening scowl on his face, Carter was a little surprised, but he didn’t show it. He kept stone-faced as the man who had stolen his family approached. There was no need to prove anything. This was his domain and Anthony had come to him first as he had planned. Now he could tell Avery that Anthony started this and he wouldn’t be lying.

“I’m here to tell you to stop,” Anthony said as he stood just at the edge of the desk.

Carter let a smile flirt at the edges of his lips. “I was just reading the paper. Does that offend you?”

“You know what I mean,” he said. “You sent my wife flowers this morning.”

Carter’s smile went flat at the mention of this man referring to Avery as his wife. It angered him that Anthony, no matter how much less of a man, was the winner here. Not only did he have Avery, but he was her husband and she was carrying his child. Carter wanted to explode just thinking about it.

“Yes, the flowers. You didn’t like them? They weren’t really for you, but . . .”

“She’s made her feelings clear. She wants nothing to do with you.”

“Those were over her father.” Carter leaned back in his chair.

“Bullshit. You sent them to our hotel room and the note didn’t mention—”

“You read it?” Carter asked. “It was addressed to Avery. That’s not polite.”

“You son of a—”

“You weren’t supposed to be there.” Carter enjoyed making him angry. “I intended for them to be delivered after eight a.m. You should have been on your way to the airport. You know, for your Monday trip back to the little school you work at.”

Anthony shook his head. “Don’t think you can get me riled up with that. So you spend your money spying on people. It’s pretty sad actually.”

“I wouldn’t expect you to get angry at that,” Carter said. “If you weren’t angry about me spending time in your hotel room last week, why would you care if I sent flowers?”

Carter felt a wicked sense of satisfaction at the look on Anthony’s face. The man would lose at poker every time. As he expected, Avery hadn’t told her husband about his visit to the hotel room and while debating whether or not Carter was telling the truth, he appeared enraged at the possibility that he was.

Anthony took a few seconds longer than he should have, but recovered. “I know who you are.”

“You’ve said that before,” Carter said, “but I don’t believe you do.

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