One Heir...or Two? by Yvonne Lindsay

Author:Yvonne Lindsay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

Ten

It was quiet when Kayla came back downstairs after her shower. She knew Imelda wouldn’t be far away when she left the kitchen, so she wasn’t too worried about leaving Van with Sienna, but she was surprised that neither of them were in the room where she’d left them twenty minutes ago. She found Imelda bustling around with her customary efficiency.

“Good morning, Ms. Porter,” the housekeeper said cheerfully. “Looks like when the cloud burns off, it’s going to be a beautiful day.”

“Yes, it does.” No matter how many times Kayla asked Imelda to use her first name, the woman insisted on the more formal address. “Have you seen Van and Sienna? I left them here when I went for my shower a little while ago.”

Imelda beamed. “Oh, yes. They’ve gone into the garage. Jacob arrived with a new delivery for Mr. Murphy. He said for you to go through when you were down.”

The garage? Kayla frowned. “Do you know what that’s about?”

The housekeeper continued grinning. “Yes, I do, but don’t ask me what it is, because it’s meant to be a surprise. You go on through and find out.”

There was nothing left to do but obey so Kayla followed the corridor that led toward the three-car garage and pushed open the connecting door. She stopped in her tracks when she saw what was there. Or, more to the point, what wasn’t.

“Where’s my car?” she asked, looking through the open garage door to the driveway to see if it had been moved.

“Right here,” Van said, straightening from the backseat, where he’d been securing Sienna in a car seat, and gesturing to the gleaming Audi SUV parked where her car should have been.

“That’s not my car, Van. This isn’t funny. You said I wasn’t a prisoner here but now you’ve taken my car away from me?”

“Kayla, relax. This is your car now.” He took a set of keys from his pocket and handed them to her. “Here—these are yours, too. Do you want to take it for a ride? Sienna’s already in her seat and ready to go.”

“I...I don’t understand.” She glanced from him to the vehicle in utter confusion. Had he just bought her a vehicle that was worth several times her usual salary? And gotten rid of her own car without even asking? “No, I can’t accept it. I want my car back.”

“Kayla, you and I both know that heap of rust and bolts wasn’t going to last for much longer. I didn’t like you driving it, especially not with Sienna on board. I’ve donated it to a trade school where the kids are going to use it as a project car for restoration.”

Anger boiled so hot and so fast she thought steam might be coming out of her ears.

“You had no right. I owned that car fair and square. It was mine, not yours to do what you wanted with.”

All the joy leeched from Van’s face, and inside the car, Sienna began to whimper.

“I wanted you to be safer.

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