Newborn Conspiracy by Delores Fossen Read Free Book Online Page B

worse with the adrenaline crash that’d hit her earlier.
    “I can wait until we talk to the doctor about Collena," she let him know.
    Mia owed the woman that much.
    While she was waiting, she needed to figure out what she was going to do. The police hadn’t offered any form of protection. They didn’t have the manpower for it, they’d said when she brought up the subject. And she couldn’t very well go home since her front lawn was a crime scene. With no family or close friends nearby, that left her with few options. A hotel, one with security.
    Or she could ask for Logan’s help.
    She glanced at him. The rumpled hair. Those dark, dangerous blue eyes. The total male intensity that frightened her, Mia made her decision.
    She would check in to a hotel.

    Which for some stupid reason made her feel guilty. Why? Because she was shutting out Logan.
    But then, she didn’t have a choice about that. For her own personal sanity, she had to shut him out. Yes, this situation was horrible and not of his own making. And yes, he probably thought he had a right to touch and see Tanner, but it couldn’t happen.
    Still, she did owe Logan something, too.
    Mia cleared her throat to get his attention."I didn’t say thank you for saving our lives."

    He shrugged."We got lucky. Let’s hope Collena is equally lucky." Logan glanced at her, unfolded his arms."I had my crew go through your car and they found something."

    That comment put her on instant alert."What?"

    “Someone had planted a listening device inside it, under the dash"

    Mia swallowed hard and tried to prevent her stomach from churning."How long had it been there?"

    “Not long. It looked brand-new. Perhaps someone hid it in your car when you were inside the pediatric clinic. I didn’t get there until shortly after you’d arrived for your appointment."

    She tried to process that. It seemed like a piece of a puzzle. Only in this case, lots of pieces were missing."Before today, I don’t think anyone had been following me for the past six weeks."

    He stayed quiet a moment."That might be true. The person might have followed the same paper trail I did."

    Oh. She hadn’t thought of that."And they got to my car ahead of you," she concluded.

    “It looks like it." He turned in the seat and faced her."I know you don’t have any reason to trust me, but that’s what I’m going to have to ask you to do."

    Mia didn’t like the sound of that, either."I’m checking into a hotel," she blurted out.

    “I’d rather you not do that. I’d like to take you to one of my houses."

    She was shaking her head before he even finished."That wouldn’t be safe."

    “I’ve already told you that Genevieve doesn’t know where this place is."

    “So you’ve said. But we don’t know for certain that she’s the one behind the shooting. It could be someone who’s tracking your every move."

    Logan drew in a weary-sounding breath."Here’s what I think happened. Genevieve wanted to have a child with me because she thought it would save our doomed relationship. When she couldn’t get pregnant, she put her plan into action—she broke up with me under the guise of giving herself some time to think and then she went straight to the Brighton Birthing Center and requested they immediately find her a surrogate. One who looked like her."

    Mia felt her eyes widen."Are you saying that Genevieve thought I would be her surrogate?"

    “She didn’t just think it, she planned it, and she had plenty of help from her criminal friends at Brighton. She probably paid them to be on the lookout for a surrogate like you. She would have needed someone ASAP since the baby’s birth couldn’t have happened much more than nine months after I last slept with her. So when you walked in the door of the birthing center, your fate was sealed."

    It took a moment to say anything, but her mind was racing with the possibility and the improbability of Logan’s theory."That doesn’t make sense."
    Didn’t