SEALed With Love (DiCarlo Brides book 2) (The DiCarlo Brides) Read Online Free

winters in ski country are going to be a drastic change. Now I’m not sure if I want to go after all.”
    He pulled the car into traffic, then slid his hand onto her arm, just above her wrist. “It doesn’t change the fact that he loved you.”
    “No.” But it tainted his image in her mind, and that was as bad. “You’re really coming to Colorado with me?” He’d said he was, but now, more than ever, she needed to know he’d be there for her as she lived with five women she didn’t know. The fact that her half-brother Harrison would be there as well wasn’t nearly as soothing as the thought of Joel at her side. Harrison. She would have to tell him what happened today. Her father had treated him like one of his own. Harrison would be shocked and disappointed by the revelation as well. She hoped her father had remembered him in the will, with fewer strings attached.
    “Where you go, I go. That’s the contract,” Joel reassured her.
    Sage had been meaning to ask him about that. “With him gone, are you still under contract?” She didn’t want him to leave her now, not when everything else was falling apart. Even if he did hold himself back from her, keep things on a purely professional level when she wanted much more. She needed his steadying influence if she was going to deal with this bombshell.
    “He didn’t miss a trick.” Joel stopped at a red light and looked at her, squeezing her wrist. The touch sent a rush of heat through her, but she knew it meant nothing to him. “He planned ahead. I got a letter from the lawyer saying I’m staying on retainer through your contract in Colorado, until the danger is past or you fire me.” He grinned. “And I’ll get paid extra to head security at the hotel, so I’m not going anywhere anytime soon.”
    She’d seen the Spartan way he lived and wondered why he cared about the money when he didn’t spend it. Sage smiled weakly, then turned to look out the window again. She had hoped they would at least become friends someday, that she would cease to be only a job to him. It didn’t look like that was ever going to happen. She’d have to reign in her growing attraction to him. Somehow. “Apparently there will be a meeting for all of us in Colorado in a couple of weeks. I’ll have the lawyer book us to go out there. I’m sure they can make an excuse about you checking on security stuff while we’re in the area.”
    “Let me know the dates.” He pulled his hand away and took a left turn. 
     Sage wrapped her arms around herself, feeling remarkably empty considering the way Joel’s presence filled the car. She already missed her dad.
     

Present Day--Early September
     
    Sage had been a wreck all day at work. The problem with the person who had been trying to ruin their family name and business all summer had come to a head the previous night and it was all Sage could do not to curl up in a ball and fall apart completely—but the hotel had opened only three days ago and she couldn’t take a break yet. She tried to project an air of self-confidence for her employees, despite the questions and long looks as rumors had flown, but the effort was exhausting. She checked the clock again and wondered how soon she could take off. The glass doors to the hallway opened and a man entered bearing a huge bouquet of red roses.
    “Delivery for Sage Parker,” he said.
    “That’s me.” She wondered if they were from Joel. He’d been kind yesterday after he came to their rescue, calming and reassuring her, sticking by her when she was most confused and upset. Flowers didn’t seem like his thing, but once in a while he surprised her, doing something uncharacteristically sweet. Red roses, though... they seemed too romantic considering their business-only relationship. She signed for the delivery and twisted the vase on the front counter until she found the card, pulling it out.
    “Who are they from?” Wendy asked. “A secret admirer?”
    Sage hoped not—it had