Renegade Father. RaeAnne Thayne
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Название: Renegade Father
Автор: RaeAnne Thayne
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Зарубежные детективы
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What woman would want a convicted murderer, especially one who came from a legacy of violence and abuse?
He thought he had accepted the way things had to be. But seeing Colt and Maggie so excited about bringing a new life into the world had made his own life seem hollow in comparison.
Yet another of the many reasons driving him toward making a fresh start away from here.
“So why did they stop in?” he asked abruptly. “Just for coffee?”
She took the last pan out of the rinse water without looking at him. “Colt heard about your new job. He came over all worked up, ready to horsewhip you for deserting me.”
He shouldn’t feel this guilt seeping through him like spring runoff, dammit. He had to learn to let go. How was he going to carve out a new life for himself when he feared he would never be completely free of the old one? “So why didn’t he?”
Before she could figure out how to answer, a dog’s angry barking cut through the low, distant moan of the wind. The pan she was drying slipped from her hand, landing harmlessly in the sink. She paid it no attention as she strained to search the menacing shadows out the window.
“What is it?” Joe asked.
“I…I’m not sure. Dolly’s barking at something.”
“Probably just a couple of deer looking for food.”
She barely heard him as her gaze swept the fence line, the spruce windbreak, the drifts of snow covering her garden. Whoever snapped that picture of her was out there somewhere. She could feel it deep in her bones. He was out there watching her, taunting her….
All evening she had struggled to contain her reaction to seeing that photograph of herself taken by some unknown person watching her through the window. Now, though, it finally broke through her fragile barriers and crashed over her in wave after wave of paralyzing panic.
Someone had been watching her. While she had worked at her paperwork completely unaware, someone had been just a thin sheet of glass away. Watching her.
How long had he stood outside the window?
And why?
As soon as she felt the fear begin to take over, felt the return of that helplessness she hated so much, she stiffened.
Not again. Dammit, not again.
“Come on, Annie. Tell me what’s going on. You’re white as a ghost.”
She wrenched her gaze from the inky, ominous blackness to the man who stood beside her looking ruggedly masculine even with a dishrag in his hand.
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