Reckless Hours: a Romantic Suspense novel (Heroes of Providence Book 3) Read Online Free PDF Page B

sat back in his seat. “Do you ever feel like you’re in some weird science fiction movie where reality shifts every five minutes?” Tammie shook her head and lifted a torn piece of the bagel, then popped it in her mouth.
    Dylan shrugged. “This town will do that to you.”
    “Meaning?”
    “You say your name is not Serena.”
    “It isn’t.”
    “Then how do you explain that picture I showed you?” He pulled the snapshot out of his pocket again and slapped it down on the table. The shock Tammie had felt the first time she saw the picture hadn’t lessened. The faces might not be a perfect match, but they were very close.
    She picked up the photo and stared. “I can’t, which is why I agreed to talk to you.”
    “The man in the picture is my brother, Cash.”
    “I’ve never seen him before.”
    Dylan sighed in disbelief. “Okay. Play it that way.”
    “What do you want from me?”
    “How about the truth? Cash came here to find Serena Davco—to ‘save’ her.” Dylan waved his hands around as if he thought his brother was a little nuts even to have the idea. Kind of like Tammie had thought Dylan was back in the street. “And here you are, with a face that matches this picture. Except you say your name is not Serena Davco.”
    She drew in a deep breath, her appetite suddenly gone. Her parents had lived here at one time, and yet they’d never mentioned Eastmeadow to her. There was a woman walking around here, somewhere, with her face. Or something very close to it. She closed her eyes, not wanting to think about the possibility that her parents had known this Serena Davco.
    “It’s not exactly the same. Our faces, I mean. Maybe you can’t see it, but our faces are different.”
    Dylan leaned forward, his voice low. “Look, Cash said you were in trouble. I’m a police officer. If something has happened and you’re in fear for your life, I can help you get protection from the state police. But I can’t if you’re not straight with me. And I can’t help my brother unless I know the truth about what’s going on.”
    Wasn’t that what Tammie had come here for? The truth? And yet, with each passing moment, the truth seemed to become stranger and stranger.
    She glanced down at the picture and stared at it for a moment before lifting her gaze to Dylan. “I came here looking for the truth, too.”
    His lips tilted into a slight grin that she found striking. He was a handsome man, with strong angular features and a rugged look that was alluring.
    Dylan nodded. “Good. Progress.”
    “I think I need to find this Serena Davco and talk to her.”
    He chuckled low. “Well, join the club. It’s taken me a month to get this far.”
    “You mean you’ve never met her?”
    * * *
    Dylan lifted his coffee to his lips and paused to stare at this strange woman. He could see what Cash had seen in the girl. With the sun streaming through the window and shining on her hair, her face, he could see firsthand that she was much prettier in person than in the picture. When she opened her eyes up wide, her whole face transformed and she lit up the room. That wasn’t something you’d get from a snapshot.
    But despite the fact that she’d agreed to talk with him, she was still playing with him, and he didn’t like it one bit. He’d spent the last month trying to talk with this woman, and now that he was face-to-face with her, he was getting the runaround. But Dylan could out-game anyone and he wasn’t about to let her get away from him without getting answers.
    She said her name was Tammie Gardner. He’d have a fellow police officer in Providence, Jake Santos, run a check on that name later to find out if Tammie Gardner even existed. And if so, what, if anything, she had to do with Cash. Maybe Tammie Gardner was just an alias Serena Davco used to keep herself hidden from whatever danger Cash was worried about. If so, Dylan would get to the bottom of it. He didn’t want to involve his dad until he absolutely had