Here Comes Trouble (29 page)

“Nathan—” There it was. The tell he’d been watching for. His father’s slight askew glance, a darting of blue eyes that eased the pressure building in Nathan’s chest.

“Someone set you up.”

Jackson let out a long breath. “And here I was thinking I would have to explain.”

“You still have plenty to explain. They found your prints on the Crown’s display case. You aren’t careless, you think out every detail of everything you do. And until recently you did that as part of the team. So what’s changed, Dad? Whatever it is had you turning yourself into the police and that puts all of us at risk.”

“I’m afraid I did that a long time ago, Nathan.” The lines around his father’s tired eyes revealed the strain he was under. “I was hoping this would work itself out, that I could keep you and your sisters out of this, especially now that they have families to consider.”

“You let me worry about Sheila and Morgan.” Nathan waved away his father’s concern with a dismissive hand. “Just tell me what’s going on. If it wasn’t to steal the Crown, why were you at the museum that night?”

“To meet someone,” Jackson said in a low voice. “Someone who never showed.”

Only now did Nathan realize what he’d previously identified as grief in his father’s eyes was more of a hovering ghost.

“When I first talked to you and Sheila about the idea of Nemesis, of doing some good with what we have available to us, making a difference to people who needed it, I told you I was looking for something to focus on after your mother died. But that wasn’t my first foray into that arena. Everyone has a past, Nathan.” Jackson took a deep breath, dropped his head back for a moment to look at the cloudless sky. “And mine has come back with a vengeance.”

Anna J. Stewart
, author of the Tremayne Family Romances, including
Asking for Trouble
, can’t remember a time she didn’t have a book in her hands or a story in her head. Early obsessions with
Star Wars
,
Star Trek
, and
Wonder Woman
set her on the path to creating fun, funny, and family-rich stories with happy endings for her independent heroines. Anna lives in Northern California where she deals with a serious
Supernatural
and
Sherlock
addiction, surrounds herself with friends and family, and tolerates an overly affectionate cat named Snickers (or perhaps it’s Snickers who tolerates her).

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