Beloved Wolf by Kasey Michaels

Author:Kasey Michaels [Michaels, Kasey]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, General, Contemporary, Family, California, Victims of Crimes
ISBN: 9780373387045
Google: F3kIAAAACAAJ
Amazon: B004BLK2Q6
Publisher: Silhouette Books
Published: 1989-01-02T07:00:00+00:00

Nine

River's attendance at the Colton dinner table had been hit or miss these past ten days, but he was present and accounted for tonight. He wore cowboy boots, freshly laundered jeans and a long-sleeved, snow-white cotton shirt with metal snaps as he stood in front of the fireplace, one arm draped over the mantel. He'd thrown a well-worn black leather vest over the shirt, and left his cowboy hat on one of the hooks inside the front door.

It was Friday night dinner, and there were enough Coltons at the ranch to make for a large dinner party in anyone else's home. Here, it was just another casual Friday night get-together, no big deal.

Rebecca had stopped over, and Liza had come back with her parents, her mother, Cynthia, and her father, Graham, Joe's younger and only brother. Jackson Colton, Liza's older brother, was among the missing, but that was to be expected, and no great surprise. Jackson spent many of his days dealing with his father at the law firm connected with Colton Enterprises, and that was more than enough contact with his old man, as far as Jackson was concerned.

Amber, Joe and Meredith's youngest, was off somewhere for the weekend, with friends, but Emmett Fallon, Joe's buddy since his army days, and now one of the most important cogs in Colton Enterprises, had stopped in for drinks, along with his fourth wife, Doris. River had never liked Emmett. He didn't know why, and figured he didn't have to have a reason.

Emmett and Graham had their heads together as they poured themselves drinks, talking over some aspect of the business—as if they didn't get to do enough of that every day. The two men were quite different, with Graham holding on to his blond hair with a vengeance—and probably with the contents of a dye bottle—while Emmett, some years his senior, seemed to prefer the distinguished look of white hair, not that it was a good look for him.

They were both about the same height, under six feet, and with slight, slim builds. So unlike Joe Colton, who seemed to fill a room the moment he entered it. The biggest difference between Graham Colton and Emmett Fallon, however, was that Graham smiled a lot, and Emmett had perfected the petulant frown. If they were a comedy team, Graham would tell the jokes, and Emmett would be the straight man. Except they probably didn't tell jokes, at least not to each other. They were too deeply in competition with each other for that.

It was odd to see Emmett and Graham together, as it was no great secret that they felt they were in daily competition with each other for Joe's favor.

In their lifelong race to be Joe's most indispensable right arm, they'd both forgotten to hide the fact that, brother and friend, they both most sincerely hated Joe Colton's guts for being so successful.

Not that Joe knew that. River didn't even know that. Not for sure. But he sensed it, could almost

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