My Stepbrother's Regret novel · Chapter 24 of 32
Chapter 24: Blown
I texted Roarke every word from the end of the dock.
He wrote back one line.
"Get your bench tools out of that house. Today."
I didn't get the chance.
When I came up from the lawn at noon, my two duffels were sitting on the mudroom bench.
My tool roll was on top, tied the way I never tie it.
My laptop was in a grocery bag.
I tried the guest suite anyway.
I typed 0314 on the keypad.
It blinked red.
ACCESS DENIED.
The housekeeper came around the corner with a laundry basket and stopped.
"Mrs. Gibbons changed it from the car," she said quietly. "She called me. She said to pack you."
She set the basket down and picked up one of my duffels before I could.
She carried it all the way out to the end of the drive.
She put it down on the gravel gently.
"I'm sorry," she said, and went back in.
Roarke's truck came around the bend twenty minutes later, going too fast.
He didn't ask anything.
He loaded the duffels and the tool roll and the grocery bag.
He put his hand on my shoulder for one second while I got in.
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