Diamonds Under the Mistletoe by Ki Brightly

Author:Ki Brightly [Brightly, Ki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Brightly Books
Published: 2022-11-23T18:30:00+00:00

8

RJ

“I cannot believe the trouble this has caused,” Madam Winters said as I walked out of the bathroom. She rose from the green upholstered armchair next to the bed and smoothed the skirt of her short black dress down while a small furrow took over her brow. “You’re doing better?” She reached back and picked up a purple velvet shawl that had fallen from her shoulders, then wrapped it around herself.

“Yes,” I said, dragging the towel off my head that I’d had draped there to keep my shirt from getting dotted with water. “I’m fine.” I used my fingers to shove my hair forward so it wouldn’t be a huge mess. “The doc sewed up the chunk ripped off my leg. It’s not the first bullet to bite me.”

Winter snorted, but I didn’t glance at him. He’d been pissed off for three days and I didn’t want to get into it over my health again while Madam Winters was in the room.

She smiled in his direction, but he didn’t notice. “Very well then, sugar. I have faith that you’ll be able to solve this problem for everyone involved.” She gave me a breezy wave and stopped to pat Winter’s cheek lightly before she glided out of the door.

We’d been living in an extravagant emerald room at the Courtesan Hotel while I recuperated, courtesy of Madam Winters. Other than the oak furniture, every piece of fabric and fixture was some shade of green, and the rich layers of color, combined with the glimmering gold Turkish flowers on the wallpaper, made me feel as if we were in a palace. I didn’t think I liked it. I was a simple man and this was too much.

“Damn it,” I growled as I took a step. My right leg stung and burned any time I put weight on it, but I was able to move around on my own. The first two days I’d mostly kept my leg elevated, and Winter had remained stonily silent while he’d fed me pain meds and run down to the kitchen to replace ice packs and bring snacks for me.

“You should be resting,” Winter hissed from where he sat cross-legged on the bed in a pair of borrowed blue silky PJs. He crossed his arms and ignored me. Well, I didn’t think he was ignoring me, so much as he was refusing to look at me while he seethed. He’d been this way since Vance had busted in on us. He’d demanded answers I wasn’t prepared to give him about my history with Vance, and when I wouldn’t say what he wanted to hear. . . this was the result.

I tossed the towel in the bathroom and finished buttoning up my white long-sleeved shirt. I kept an eye on Winter while I grabbed my black suit coat and slid it on over my gun holster. I stowed a few extra suits here at the Courtesan because I never knew what I would get into with work, and the

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