A Texas Child by Linda Warren

Author:Linda Warren [Warren, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-12-24T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

MYRA WAS IN a foul mood and she didn’t understand why. She’d gotten what she wanted—Daniel was safe and back in Texas. But as Levi had said, she was a person who dealt with facts and, right now, she was ignoring them. She needed to get her head on straight. Maybe some days she was allowed to be optimistic and a dreamer because, above everything else, she wanted her friend to get better. To take care of her child. To have the life she wanted.

If she didn’t...

Myra had to be prepared to do what was best for Daniel. At the moment, she couldn’t see herself being the best choice to take care of him. She’d never planned on being a mother. It wasn’t her thing. But why not? That’s what was bugging her. And then there was Levi, who was annoying the crap out of her. He was so natural with Daniel, as if he’d been taking care of the child all his life. But then Levi was planning to be a father and wanted to be a father.

Why didn’t she have those feelings? Oh, she didn’t want to open her heart and feel the pain. She wasn’t going that deep right now. Other thoughts took precedence and everything circled back to doing what was best for Daniel.

Everyone said she was a strong, independent woman. Where was that woman now? It wasn’t like her to be so conflicted. But then, she’d never had a child’s life in her hands and Levi judging her.

She had to stop thinking and beating herself up. Things would work out and she would handle it the best way she could.

On the way to the police station, she and Levi were quiet. Myra knew there was a lot both of them wanted to say but that would come later.

Levi had Daniel in a carrier and they made their way to the police chief’s office where Tom, Steve and Clarence were waiting. Chief Greg Gilmore frowned when he saw the baby. “What’s he doing here?”

“Sorry, chief, we don’t have any place to leave him right now,” Myra explained.

“Carla!” He bellowed for his secretary and she appeared in an instant. “Watch the baby for a little bit and call CPS.”

“No, please.” Myra stopped her. “They’re going to take Natalie off the ventilator in the morning and then she can tell us what she wants done with the baby.”

“I didn’t realize she was that much better,” Clarence said from his perch by the chief.

“I’m just repeating what the doctor said and I’d rather the baby stayed with me until then.”

“Watch him in your office,” Greg told Carla.

For the next thirty minutes, Levi and Myra explained what had happened at the Mortez house.

“There’s no basement in the plans we have of the house.” Steve’s fingers zoomed across the keyboard of his laptop and then he raised his hands. “No basement at the Brownsville house, either.”

“Have you ever gone into the house in Brownsville?” Levi asked.

“Yes. We’ve raided it several times.

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