Wanted by Her Lost Love

won’t mean much, but I’m sorry.”Ryan exploded at him. Jarrod didn’t even try todefend himself. He went down on the floor and thistime he didn’t get up. “Sorry? You’re sorry? You triedto rape her. You lied to me about her. What the hell iswrong with you? She was the woman I was going tomarry. Why would you do something like that?”“Mom,” Jarrod said in a weary voice.Ryan took a step back, stunned. “Mom? Mom putyou up to this?”Jarrod dragged himself only up enough to leanagainst the living room wall and he put a handthrough his hair, his expression weary and defeated.“Yeah. She went ballistic when she found out youproposed to Kelly. She was determined you weren’tgoing to marry some penniless upstart. Her wordsnot mine. I thought she was crazy at first. I mean Ifigured she’d throw a fit and then get over it, but thenshe wanted me to go buy her off. She said that ifKelly refused the offer, I should frame her with thefake rape story. I swear to you I wouldn’t have rapedher, Ryan. I just wanted to set it up so you’d think weslept together.”“Jesus,” Cam muttered. “This is crazy.”