Twisted Bond (Holly Woods Files, #1) by Emma Hart

Author:Emma Hart [Hart, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Romance
Published: 2015-06-10T16:00:00+00:00

My conversation with Ryan went about as well as the winter Olympics in Australia. It occurred to me on the way back from Houston that I needed a copy of Lena and Dr. Gentry’s marriage certificate as proof for when I told Ryan. Dr. Gentry willingly scanned it and e-mailed it to me without asking why I needed it, and the printout I gave Ryan lasted all of ten minutes before he angrily tore it up.

Long story short, he had a police escort out of my office, and I’m now fired.

Which was happening anyway. Let’s be honest. The woman lied to him. To all of us—but to him the worst.

Briefly, I wonder if Julia will ever forgive him.

Probably not when it gets out that Penny’s baby is Ryan’s and his penis is a rogue animal incapable of staying inside its cage.

I sigh and stop into Rosie’s Café on my way home. Right now, I need a big ol’ vanilla latte and perhaps a slice of pie…or ten. That’s equivalent to one Gigi’s cupcake, right? To me, it is.

“Goodness, Noelle! Did you hear?” Rosie gasps as soon as the door shuts behind me.

“Hear what?”

“Lena! Married. With a baby!” She shakes her head and pushes some stray hair from her face. “Why, I can’t believe it. How did she keep that secret?”

“I don’t quite know,” I say quietly. “Can I get a low-fat vanilla frap and two slices of your cherry pie?”

“Sure thing, sugar.” She busies herself with my order. “I’m so darn confused. And Ryan—that poor boy! How’d he cope with the news?”

“Not well,” I admit. Although “not well” is somewhat of an understatement.

“And the case? He hired you?”

“Hired me, fired me.” I shrug and hand her a twenty.

She clutches a hand to her chest and leans forward. “But you are still investigating?”

I take the box containing my pie and bring my coffee to my mouth, my lips slowly curving at the sides. “Now, Rosie,” I say, heading for the door. “I never outstep my bounds. I’m surely sittin’ by and lettin’ the police finish out the investigation.”

Rosie shakes her head, grinning. “Surely, Noelle. I believe you, sugar.”

With a wink, I push my way outside, the bell over the door tinkling. Back at my car, I nestle my pie box onto the passenger’s seat and deposit my coffee cup in the cup holder in the center console. As I drive home, my mind wanders.

How did Lena keep her other life a secret?

And how does Daniel fit into all of these things?

It crosses my mind that I haven’t spoken to Claire Santiago, the woman whose toyboy he was. Of course, I know that their relationship disintegrated when I informed her husband. She groveled—a.k.a. gave him a ton of blow jobs and participated in his dream of a threesome with a woman from out of town—and their marriage is back on track.

There are some damn weirdos in this town, I tell you.

But, still, if Claire and Daniel had any semblance of a relationship

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