Wanted by Her Lost Love

“Don’t play dumb. You’re a smart girl. How muchwould it take for you to dump Ryan and take off?”“You’re offering me money? Did your mother putyou up to this? You’re both out of your minds. I loveRyan. He loves me. We’re getting married.”Something that looked like genuine regretflickered across Jarrod’s face. He fidgetednervously and then pinned her with his stare. “I’dhoped you’d make this easy. It’s not a smallamount of money we’re offering.”The “we” in that statement confirmed Kelly’ssuspicions that Ryan’s mother was indeed themastermind of this operation. She was about to tellJarrod exactly where he and his mother could getoff when he took another step toward her. The lookin his eyes had her hastily backing away.“I think you should go now,” she said even as shereached for the phone.Jarrod lunged across the bed, knocking thephone from her hand. She was so stunned by thesudden attack that for a moment she didn’t—couldn’t—defend herself.He shoved her down on the bed, his handsmoving roughly over her body, pushing at her shirt,