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.But he had to ease up now, find the right strategy tohelp her to see the possibilities. Kata, we can fix that and anything if we set our minds to it.Give me a chance. Hunter, I.Why? I know I have to take responsibility for my part, drunk or not, and I m pretty sure I m the one who suggested we get marriedlike Christi and Nick Mick. Whatever.You were the sober one.Good sex wasn t a reason to get married. Just good? he countered archly. Okay, she conceded. Great sex.But still. I think we ve both been round the block enough to know that this is something more. But normal people spend more time getting to know each other.They talk.They date. We ll do those things, Kata.In fact, I want to. We should have started there. Hunter tried to grab on to his patience. If you weren t wearing that ring around your finger this morning and I d called you to ask you out, whatwould you have said? Her silence told him everything.The emotional intensity between them still scared her.Most likely, she would have tucked tail and run.Only timewould help her see that they could work. You weren t drunk.Why did you marry me? That question was easy to answer. Because I wanted to. Her sigh shivered down his back as he took his seat and buckled his belt. Ugh, just when I think you re a pushy, dominating prick, you saysomething nice. I am a pushy, dominating prick. He smiled. But honey, I m always honest. How do you know I m not a screechy head case with a bad credit score? I don t.But what I do know is how I feel about you.Trusting my gut has kept me alive more than once.I believe it s steering me right now. This is so much, so fast.I need time to sort through it. Hunter gritted his teeth.He could afford to give her latitude on a lot of things, but not about spending time with him before he went back onactive duty.If he didn t, Kata would be gone. Where are you, honey? I think we should talk as soon as I hit Lafayette. Lafayette? Your plane ticket said Dallas/Ft.Worth. So she d looked.Interesting. Easy change. He regretted that he wouldn t get to spend time with Logan so he could straighten his brother out.That would have to wait for now. Y-you can t come here. That s where you are, honey.I ll come straight to your place. I I m not there right now.I had to leave.Ben. Probably wanted to pick up where he d left off last night.Hunter would have to set him straight or kill him. I ll take care of it. Stop! I don t want you to take care of anything. Hunter swallowed against sudden fury, his voice very low. You re my wife.You re not going to fuck him again. She gasped. You thought.oh, that s just fucking perfect.Why the hell do you want to be married to me if you think I m going to step out onyou the minute you turn your back? It was a fair question, and Hunter grappled for a fair answer. I don t know what your feelings for him are.And I know that a piece of paperbetween us probably wouldn t make a damn bit of difference to him.But let me be clear: It means something to me. He s a friend and he s been convenient, yeah.But he s not jealous, just pissed that I won t have sex with him anymore.I couldn t stay and listento him rant.It was making my head hurt like a bitch. Hunter repressed a smile.Poor baby was hungover.It pleased him even more that she didn t want to be intimate with Ben. Understood.Sorry if I upset you.No insult intended. He gripped the phone tighter. Tell me where you are, honey.I ll come to you, and we llhave a thorough conversation.I don t want to change your life; I just want to be a part of it. You change everything just by being you, the same way Gordon does. Her voice wobbled with tears, and she sniffed. Ugh, I need to shut up. Who the hell was Gordon? Give us a chance to work this out.Are you with your sister? She laughed through her tears. You think I d go near two rambunctious boys when my head is throbbing like a broken toe? Or sign up for thelecture from hell? No way.I came to my office.It s almost empty on Sunday. Street address? Kata paused a long time, and Hunter bet she was weighing the intelligence of giving him an inch versus the sheer futility of running.In the end,she sighed. You win. He memorized the address as she rattled it off. I ll be there in two hours. You know this marriage thing is a train wreck waiting to happen? He laughed. Or the adventure of our lives. Well, I Suddenly, he heard a blast on the other end of the line.It was unmistakably gunfire.Kata screamed.Then the line went dead. Chapter SixHUNTER knew his fingers shook as he dialed Kata again.Four rings, then voice mail.The result didn t change when he tried once more.Who the hell would be shooting inside her office building? He couldn t let himself think that she couldn t answer the phone because somethingterrible had happened.Pushing down his fear, he fell back on his training.Stuck on a fucking plane, he could only reach out for help.And he had to do it before theplane pushed away from the gate and the flight attendants forced him to turn off his cell phone.He didn t hesitate to hit one of the numbers on his speed dial.Thankfully, Deke had elected to move to Lafayette, closer to work and his cousinLuc, a few months back.His brother-in-law answered right away. Hey, Hunter. I have a situation.There s a female probation officer, Kata Muñoz, who s been either shot or shot at. He rattled off the address. She s hadsome run-ins with a local gangster who s been threatening her.Get to her, man.Now.I ll be there as soon as I get off this damn plane. Deke could have asked a lot of questions and probably would later, but the soldier in him responded to the urgency of Hunter s tone. Done.I lltext you. Sir, you have to turn off your phone. The flight attendant hovering in the aisle scowled. Thanks, Deke. He ended the call, moving restlessly in his seat, praying like hell that help wouldn t be too late for Kata.He d known her less than twenty-four hours, and already she was perilously close to being the most important person in his life.He d neversought love, but now that it was breathing down his neck, anyone who wanted to steal his possible happily-ever-after would have to pry it out of hiscold, dead hands.Despite the fact that it chafed him raw, Hunter powered the phone down and tucked it into his jeans pocket.He had no idea how he was goingto survive this flight without losing his mind.Scrubbing a harsh hand down his face, he tried not to picture Kata hurt, bleeding, alone.Dying.Goddamn it, he should be there to save her.He swore that if she lived, he d never leave her unprotected again not for a single second.THE sharp report of gunfire startled Kata, echoing through the office.She jumped and lost her grip on her phone.It skittered across the floor,under a colleague s chair about fifteen feet away as she hit the tile floor on her hands and knees, diving under her heavy metal desk.Where had the gunfire come from? Given the deafening sound, inside the building, maybe even inside the room.She was the only person inthe office, since it was Sunday.But God, who would shoot at her? Had Cortez Villarreal or his goons caught up to her?Heart beating until she feared it would burst, Kata mentally raced through her options.Her phone had fallen in the intruder s direction.It was toofar away to safely retrieve.Instead of retrieving it, she had to focus on escape.The main exit lay in the direction from which the shot had come [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]
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.But he had to ease up now, find the right strategy tohelp her to see the possibilities. Kata, we can fix that and anything if we set our minds to it.Give me a chance. Hunter, I.Why? I know I have to take responsibility for my part, drunk or not, and I m pretty sure I m the one who suggested we get marriedlike Christi and Nick Mick. Whatever.You were the sober one.Good sex wasn t a reason to get married. Just good? he countered archly. Okay, she conceded. Great sex.But still. I think we ve both been round the block enough to know that this is something more. But normal people spend more time getting to know each other.They talk.They date. We ll do those things, Kata.In fact, I want to. We should have started there. Hunter tried to grab on to his patience. If you weren t wearing that ring around your finger this morning and I d called you to ask you out, whatwould you have said? Her silence told him everything.The emotional intensity between them still scared her.Most likely, she would have tucked tail and run.Only timewould help her see that they could work. You weren t drunk.Why did you marry me? That question was easy to answer. Because I wanted to. Her sigh shivered down his back as he took his seat and buckled his belt. Ugh, just when I think you re a pushy, dominating prick, you saysomething nice. I am a pushy, dominating prick. He smiled. But honey, I m always honest. How do you know I m not a screechy head case with a bad credit score? I don t.But what I do know is how I feel about you.Trusting my gut has kept me alive more than once.I believe it s steering me right now. This is so much, so fast.I need time to sort through it. Hunter gritted his teeth.He could afford to give her latitude on a lot of things, but not about spending time with him before he went back onactive duty.If he didn t, Kata would be gone. Where are you, honey? I think we should talk as soon as I hit Lafayette. Lafayette? Your plane ticket said Dallas/Ft.Worth. So she d looked.Interesting. Easy change. He regretted that he wouldn t get to spend time with Logan so he could straighten his brother out.That would have to wait for now. Y-you can t come here. That s where you are, honey.I ll come straight to your place. I I m not there right now.I had to leave.Ben. Probably wanted to pick up where he d left off last night.Hunter would have to set him straight or kill him. I ll take care of it. Stop! I don t want you to take care of anything. Hunter swallowed against sudden fury, his voice very low. You re my wife.You re not going to fuck him again. She gasped. You thought.oh, that s just fucking perfect.Why the hell do you want to be married to me if you think I m going to step out onyou the minute you turn your back? It was a fair question, and Hunter grappled for a fair answer. I don t know what your feelings for him are.And I know that a piece of paperbetween us probably wouldn t make a damn bit of difference to him.But let me be clear: It means something to me. He s a friend and he s been convenient, yeah.But he s not jealous, just pissed that I won t have sex with him anymore.I couldn t stay and listento him rant.It was making my head hurt like a bitch. Hunter repressed a smile.Poor baby was hungover.It pleased him even more that she didn t want to be intimate with Ben. Understood.Sorry if I upset you.No insult intended. He gripped the phone tighter. Tell me where you are, honey.I ll come to you, and we llhave a thorough conversation.I don t want to change your life; I just want to be a part of it. You change everything just by being you, the same way Gordon does. Her voice wobbled with tears, and she sniffed. Ugh, I need to shut up. Who the hell was Gordon? Give us a chance to work this out.Are you with your sister? She laughed through her tears. You think I d go near two rambunctious boys when my head is throbbing like a broken toe? Or sign up for thelecture from hell? No way.I came to my office.It s almost empty on Sunday. Street address? Kata paused a long time, and Hunter bet she was weighing the intelligence of giving him an inch versus the sheer futility of running.In the end,she sighed. You win. He memorized the address as she rattled it off. I ll be there in two hours. You know this marriage thing is a train wreck waiting to happen? He laughed. Or the adventure of our lives. Well, I Suddenly, he heard a blast on the other end of the line.It was unmistakably gunfire.Kata screamed.Then the line went dead. Chapter SixHUNTER knew his fingers shook as he dialed Kata again.Four rings, then voice mail.The result didn t change when he tried once more.Who the hell would be shooting inside her office building? He couldn t let himself think that she couldn t answer the phone because somethingterrible had happened.Pushing down his fear, he fell back on his training.Stuck on a fucking plane, he could only reach out for help.And he had to do it before theplane pushed away from the gate and the flight attendants forced him to turn off his cell phone.He didn t hesitate to hit one of the numbers on his speed dial.Thankfully, Deke had elected to move to Lafayette, closer to work and his cousinLuc, a few months back.His brother-in-law answered right away. Hey, Hunter. I have a situation.There s a female probation officer, Kata Muñoz, who s been either shot or shot at. He rattled off the address. She s hadsome run-ins with a local gangster who s been threatening her.Get to her, man.Now.I ll be there as soon as I get off this damn plane. Deke could have asked a lot of questions and probably would later, but the soldier in him responded to the urgency of Hunter s tone. Done.I lltext you. Sir, you have to turn off your phone. The flight attendant hovering in the aisle scowled. Thanks, Deke. He ended the call, moving restlessly in his seat, praying like hell that help wouldn t be too late for Kata.He d known her less than twenty-four hours, and already she was perilously close to being the most important person in his life.He d neversought love, but now that it was breathing down his neck, anyone who wanted to steal his possible happily-ever-after would have to pry it out of hiscold, dead hands.Despite the fact that it chafed him raw, Hunter powered the phone down and tucked it into his jeans pocket.He had no idea how he was goingto survive this flight without losing his mind.Scrubbing a harsh hand down his face, he tried not to picture Kata hurt, bleeding, alone.Dying.Goddamn it, he should be there to save her.He swore that if she lived, he d never leave her unprotected again not for a single second.THE sharp report of gunfire startled Kata, echoing through the office.She jumped and lost her grip on her phone.It skittered across the floor,under a colleague s chair about fifteen feet away as she hit the tile floor on her hands and knees, diving under her heavy metal desk.Where had the gunfire come from? Given the deafening sound, inside the building, maybe even inside the room.She was the only person inthe office, since it was Sunday.But God, who would shoot at her? Had Cortez Villarreal or his goons caught up to her?Heart beating until she feared it would burst, Kata mentally raced through her options.Her phone had fallen in the intruder s direction.It was toofar away to safely retrieve.Instead of retrieving it, she had to focus on escape.The main exit lay in the direction from which the shot had come [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]