The Daughter's Return by The Daughter's Return

Author:The Daughter's Return [HS-1282, MSU-227] (UC) (mobi)
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-03-23T08:46:50+00:00

“EAGLE GATE GENEALOGICAL FIRM, Wendell Smith speaking.”

“Good morning, Mr. Smith. It’s Maggie McFarland. Has Mr. Halsey come in yet?”

“Yes. He was here when I walked in.”

“Does he have a client waiting?”

“Not yet. It’s too early.”

“In that case, don’t bother to tell him I called. I’ll be right there.”

Maggie left the condo for the short walk to the firm a few blocks away. After she met with Jake, she would go back to her office and spend a full day with Steve. During the time she’d been in California, he’d been closeted in her library going over her cases in more detail.

She’d intended to keep her distance from Jake until he called her. But something she’d learned at the prison in California prompted her to seek him out now. When she entered the firm, Mr. Smith smiled broadly and told her to go on back.

Maggie’s pulse rate was already too high to be healthy. The memory of those few minutes in Jake’s arms the other night had left her aching for more. It was no wonder her heart leaped when she saw him through his office doorway, deep in concentration at the computer.

Today he was wearing a tan sport shirt. His hair had grown out some since she’d first met him. It had a lot of curl, just as she’d thought.

She knocked on the door.

“More marzipan for me today, Simone?” he asked without looking up. “You’re spoiling me.”

First Kamila, now Simone.

“If I’d known that was your favorite candy, I’d have brought you some.”

He looked up and their gazes locked. “Maggie.”

She hurriedly took one of the seats opposite his desk. “Sorry I don’t have any treats for you.”

“I’m not partial to marzipan,” he said in a quiet voice, “but I wouldn’t dream of refusing it from my French colleague who works down the hall.”

“I don’t care for it, either. At one of my birthday parties when I was little, my mother ordered a marzipan cake from a Swedish bakery. I got sick on it and haven’t been able to eat it since.”

“You don’t look sick today.” His eyes burned with the same fire she’d seen in them the other night. “In fact you look good enough to eat.”

She’d been thinking the same thing about him. Her cheeks filled with heat. “Speaking of treats, does Kamila work here, too?”

With that question she expected a smile. Instead his expression grew solemn. “Kamila’s my stepmother.”

“I didn’t realize your father had remarried. Was she cruel to you as a child? Is that why you have nightmares about her, too?”

He rubbed his bottom lip with his thumb. “After what I put you through in the Uintas, I can hardly blame you for coming to that conclusion. But the truth is, she’s a wonderful person who’s been missing, like your sister Kathryn, since my father’s funeral fifteen months ago.”

“That long?” Maggie said in a hushed cry. “Are you saying she was kidnapped?”

“It’s a distinct possibility, but I’ll never know anything until I can go after her.”

“Wait—” Maggie put her palms up.

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