Yuletide Secrets by Hope White

Author:Hope White
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2022-07-22T20:32:31+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Two days later, Sara was released from the hospital and moved into the Echo Mountain Resort at the request of Detective Walsh. Although the case against LaRouche and Harrington seemed solid, Nate wanted Sara to stay in town until they resolved some issues.

The longer she stayed, the harder it would be to leave, especially because of the gifts Will and the girls dropped off at the front desk for her: chocolates, homemade cookies she assumed were snicker poodles and drawings. There were drawings of Will and the girls, drawings of the mountains and drawings of Will and Sara holding hands.

She sighed. If only...

And why not? Why couldn’t you be happy here with Will and the girls?

She grabbed her phone and pressed the number for her boss at the FBI, but didn’t hit Send. He’d left her a few messages asking her to call him back and discuss her situation.

A part of her had no interest in whatever he had to say, even if he offered an apology and her job back. After spending the week with the people of Echo Mountain, she saw what true loyalty looked like, loyalty and trust. For whatever reason, she’d never developed that kind of relationship with her peers or supervisors at work. They hadn’t even trusted her enough to share critical information about their investigation of David Price—which would have prevented this entire disaster.

The lack of trust was partially her fault. Up to this point in life she rarely trusted anyone, yet if you didn’t trust, you couldn’t expect people to trust you in return.

Then there was Will.

She placed her phone on the table and gazed out the window.

Who would have thought a man like Will would have helped her see the world differently, taught her to trust and work as a team? She could take that lesson back with her to the FBI, which would make her a better agent.

For some reason, she couldn’t make the call.

“What is wrong with you?” she muttered.

A knock sounded at the door. She crossed the hotel room and welcomed Nate. “Hey, come on in.”

Nate, arm in a sling, entered her room.

“How’s the shoulder?” she asked.

“Less irritating than yesterday.”

“And the shooter?”

“Alive, and talking once he heard LaRouche and Harrington had been arrested. He’d been on their payroll for years as an enforcer.”

“A drug company needing an enforcer. That says it all.” She shook her head. “How’s the investigation going?”

Nate noticed her neatly folded clothes in an open suitcase. “Why, you in a hurry to leave town?”

“I guess.” She went back to the window. Bree and a young man were putting up Christmas lights along the split rail fence.

Christmas, the holiday she never celebrated because she was alone, because she thought spending it with her little brother would only remind him of everything they’d lost.

“It doesn’t work, ya know,” Nate said.

She turned to him. “I’m sorry?”

“Running.”

“Not sure what you mean.”

“I recognize that look in your eye. I used to see it when I looked in the mirror. So I ran, thinking it would go away.

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