The Bounty Hunter's Baby Search by Tara Taylor Quinn

Author:Tara Taylor Quinn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2023-01-16T18:13:39+00:00

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“Yeah, I know her...knew her. Noah... God rest his soul...told me she’d passed.” The older woman with a white apron tied around her jolly-looking belly glanced up from the photo Haley had just shown her and motioned Paul and Haley toward a table off in a little alcove in the darkened room. A guest could easily get lost in time inside Ambrosino’s. Going back years...with the photos of Rat Pack associates on the walls, red real-leather-padded booth benches and solid cherry tables. And going back hours, too, as, even at three in the afternoon, it looked like nighttime.

Cozy nighttime. Family dinner nighttime. Friends getting together to laugh over good food and wine type of nighttime.

Paul followed Haley’s lead and took the seat he’d been shown at the table. Haley’s presence, her plea to the maître d’ at the reception desk, had netted them the chance to speak to the head chef who’d been cooking for the Ambrosino family for over forty years. A feat which would have taken him longer than Haley to accomplish, if he’d been able to succeed there at all.

Sometimes credentials tore down walls, other times, they erected them.

“Did you know her well?” Haley asked Maria, leaning in toward the woman, her ponytail falling over her right shoulder—giving Paul an expected glimpse of her neck, and the bruise that was forming just beneath her left ear. Fury filled him, swift and sharp. Unlike any he’d felt before that morning when he’d known for certain that Haley had been abducted.

“...sweet and funny, and so good to our Noah...” With a moment of mental blankness, he returned to the conversation at hand, the important moment that was happening, and realized that he’d actually missed part of a critical interview.

Heat moved up his neck to his face, making it difficult for him to sit calmly, to sit at all. And he couldn’t pretend that he wasn’t in danger from a foe completely separate from the one they were seeking. He had to get the job done. To know Haley was safe.

And then he had to get out—of her space, of her life—before she sucked him back under the spell that had nearly unhinged him the first time.

“I don’t know how he met her—he just started showing up with her now and then, swearing that there was nothing between them, when I teased him, but I could tell he was sweet on her. Didn’t matter to me that she was a bit older than he was. These days, who cares?” She threw up her hands, both palms to the ceiling. “He said they were friends, helping each other out some, and I know she definitely helped him, going with him to the first few Charles! black tie functions he had to attend as an official member of the board. I know ’cause they came back here afterward for ice cream. My boy all grown up, meeting his grown-up business responsibilities, and then sitting in his tux eating ice cream!” She chortled.

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