Canton's Protection by Diana Palmer

Author:Diana Palmer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2023-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

When they got to town, a big white stretch limousine met them at the airport. To Kurt, who was used to traveling in old taxis and beat-up cars, it was an incredible treat. He explored everything, under Canton’s amused eyes.

“It’s just a long car,” he informed the boy. “After a while, they all look alike.”

“It’s my first time in a limo, and I’m going to enjoy it,” he assured him, continuing the search.

Janine, who frequently went on tour and rode around in limos like this, watched her brother with equal amusement. She’d wanted to take him with her on the last trip, but he couldn’t lose the time from school. Only illness had gotten him this break.

“Aren’t you curious?” Canton asked her. “You seem very much at home in here.”

Her eyebrows lifted. “Do I? Actually I’m very excited.”

“Are you?”

She smiled sweetly, and turned her attention back to Kurt.

Later, while Canton was in his meeting, Karie and Kurt went to a big mall with Janine, where they peeked and poked through some of the most expensive shops in town. By the time they ended up at an exclusive chocolatier shop and bought truffles, they were all ready to go home.

Canton accepted a chocolate on the way back to the airport, smiling as he tasted it. “My one weakness,” he explained. “I love chocolate.”

“He’s a chocoholic,” Karie added. “Once, he went rushing out in the middle of the night for a chocolate bar.”

“Sounds just like Janie,” Kurt replied with a smile. “She keeps chocolate hidden all over the house.”

“Hidden?” Canton probed.

“We stop her from eating it if we find any in her hiding places. She gets terrible migraines when she eats it,” he explained. “Not that it ever stopped her. So we have to.”

“She’s just eaten two enormous truffles,” Karie said worriedly.

Janine glared at the kids. “I’m perfectly all right,” she informed them. “Anyway, it doesn’t always give me migraines,” she told her brother firmly.

That night, lying in the bed and almost screaming with pain, she remembered vividly what she said to Kurt.

She lost her lunch, and then her supper. The pain was so bad that she wished for a quick and merciful death.

She didn’t even realize that Kurt had gone to get Canton until she felt his hand holding hers.

“You don’t have anything to take?” he prompted.

“No,” she squeaked.

He let go of her hand and called a doctor. Scant minutes later, a dark gentleman in a suit administered a whopping injection. And only a little later, pain gave way to blessed oblivion.

She woke with a weight on her arm. Her eyes opened. Her whole head felt sore, but the headache was so subdued that it was almost a memory.

She looked toward the side of the bed, and there was Canton Rourke, in a burgundy robe, with his face lying on her arm. He was sound asleep, half in a chair and half against her side of the bed.

“Good heavens, what are you doing here?” she croaked.

He heard her, blinking to sudden alertness.

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