Secret Words (Secret Dreams Contemporary Romance, #1) by Miranda P. Charles

Author:Miranda P. Charles
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: love triangle, romance professionals, holiday romance, love at first sight, romance and family, women's fiction, free romance novel ebook, freebie, free romance, free contemporary romance
Publisher: MPC Romance Publishing
Published: 2013-10-12T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Jasmine's hand shook with nerves and anger as she dialled George's number. She hadn't planned what she was going to say to him. All she knew was she needed this whole thing sorted out immediately.

Distress swamped her when a recorded voice said that the number she had called was not connected.

"Damn it!"

She dropped the phone on her desk and buried her face in her hands. How could she fix this? By the looks of it, Hannah had been contacted by George, who told her lies. George must have played on Hannah's feelings for Kane and convinced her that she needed to do all she could to save Kane from the evil clutches of Jasmine Allen, the witch-whore.

But how did George know about Hannah? Or even Kane, for that matter?

She gasped as the answer came to her.

Tim.

How could she get in touch with that man? She didn't have his number. His caller ID was blocked on her mobile phone.

She went back to her computer and Googled his name. There were too many entries for Tim Smith or Timothy Smith. And she had been too uninterested in him to bother knowing where he worked.

There was no other choice. She had to find his number from her dad without him knowing the true reason why she wanted it. She couldn't afford to have her father reacting adversely until she had got to the bottom of things. She didn't trust Tim to hold back on doing something that might damage Kane's reputation.

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"Hello, Tim," she said coldly.

"Jasmine?" an incredulous voice answered.

"Yes," she said flatly, trying to calm her outrage so she could have a rational discussion with the man who was endangering Kane's career.

"Wow," he said. "I'm glad you rang. I've been meaning to call you for so long but I'm just too gutless."

She frowned. Tim sounded apologetic. Not what she was expecting at all.

"Well, here I am, Tim. Fire away," she said in a still-icy manner.

"I'm really sorry, Jasmine," Tim said. "I believed it when I heard you were ..."

"What, Tim?" she asked quietly when his pause became too long.

She heard him sigh heavily. "I was told that the reason you wouldn't go out with me was because I was a goody-two-shoes looking for a relationship when you weren't. When you broke up with George, he told certain people you were ready for your next casual relationship. He also said you preferred aggressive men who did a lot of chasing—that you like writing about it in your ... porno stories."

She gasped.

"I'm sorry. That's what I heard," he said contritely. "My dad was very ill at the time. I was angry and worried. I felt hemmed in with the pressure of taking over Dad's work. I hated that none of my other siblings wanted to help and I was lumped with everything. I was in a low point when I decided to go for what I wanted. Trouble was, I did it in a very immature way. I drank too much at your sister's wedding and got miffed that you found another guy and I missed my chance again.

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