The Summit by Kat Martin

Author:Kat Martin [Martin, Kat]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Suspense, Mystery
ISBN: 9780778324706
Publisher: Mira
Published: 2007-06-30T14:00:00+00:00

It was early. The office hadn’t yet opened. It was Tuesday, the morning after the July Fourth weekend. After a day of kayaking on nearby Lake Washington, Ben and Katie had watched the annual fireworks celebration from the shore.

Ben had returned Katie home, then gone over to Autumn’s and spent the night on her sofa. He knew she didn’t want him there. She looked wary and nervous—and so damned cute it took enormous self control to stay away from her. Sometime after two, she awakened but her dream was the same one she’d had before and they had gathered no new information.

Last night has been the same. He had purposely gone over late in the evening to give her a little breathing room, though he would rather have taken her out to dinner or just snuggled up in front of the TV.

It bothered him, this unwanted attraction he felt for her, this persistent desire that never seemed to leave. He wanted to be with her, no matter how determinedly she tried to push him away.

Maybe that was it. Autumn was a challenge: a woman he wanted who didn’t want him.

Ben wished he could convince himself.

He looked down at the paperwork sitting on top of his big desk. Kurt Fisher had brought him another offer from A-1 Sports, upping the purchase price for the chain by a considerable amount. Kurt also dropped several not-so-subtle hints about the lease A-1 was putting together on property near Pioneer Square, practically next door to Ben’s downtown store.

Instead of just refusing the deal as he had before, Ben told Fisher he needed time to consider the offer and of course he would have to have his attorney look it over.

A-1 wasn’t the only one who could play games.

Thinking of business, he reached for the phone and dialed his real estate broker, Russ Petrone.

“Any word yet on our proposal?” Ben asked, referring to a plan he was trying to put together to quell A-1’s leasing deal.

“Not yet, but I think we’ve got several parties seriously interested.”

“Good. Keep it quiet and keep after it.”

“Will do.”

Ben hung up and leaned back in his chair. He needed to end A-1’s threat and he thought that he might have come up with a way. He smiled, thinking how furious Kurt Fisher would be if his plan actually succeeded.

Ben straightened, the smile slipping away as his mind turned to a different, more important matter. Moving toward his computer, he grabbed his mouse, clicked on the Internet symbol on the desktop, and waited for Google to pop up on the screen.

He hadn’t been to this particular Web site in years. It was just too painful. He typed in www.missingkids.com.

The home page came up, featuring pictures of children who had recently gone missing and offering links to pages that held information on others—a number so high it made his chest hurt.

There was a list of question boxes to be filled in so information on the missing child could be found. Ben started typing.

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