His Last Redemption by Clarissa Yip

Author:Clarissa Yip [Yip, Clarissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ignite, Romance, Clarissa Yip, suspense, Entangled, His Last Redemption
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-03-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

You’re a coward.

The words sang like a mantra through his mind. Kane stared at his captain as the burly man spoke, but he heard nothing. After leaving Lauren in the care of one of the female officers he’d asked to come over, he’d driven in a haze to the precinct.

Watching Lauren’s face whiten, then eyes flutter close as gravity pulled her to the floor, had scared the shit out of him. He’d caught her before she’d hit the ground and carried her to the bed. Not long after, she’d awakened, then stared at him as if he wasn’t really there and turned away, giving him her back.

The distance had returned between them. Her face had closed up and she’d ignored him. Anything that he had said, he wasn’t even sure she’d heard. When the officer arrived, he’d left her with instructions to make sure Lauren ate and got some rest.

“Hollister!”

Kane’s head jerked up to see his captain glaring at him. “Yes, sir.”

“What is wrong with you? The state doesn’t pay you to stand around and daydream.”

“No, sir.”

The captain huffed, then turned his attention to Beckett and Mitchell. Ryan gave him a frown, and Kane just shrugged. Lauren had called him a coward. Was he one, truly?

He couldn’t allow himself to get involved with anyone. His past relationship with Lauren had proven that. He had nothing to give. If he couldn’t get a grip on his own life, then how was he expected to make room for others? His heart ached at the thought of his mother. He didn’t want to feel. It was better to keep himself separate from everyone else; then he wouldn’t hurt anyone, wouldn’t disappoint anyone.

Flickering a glance at his partner, he tried to make sense of his actions. He and Ryan were close, like brothers in a sense, but they both had their own reservations around each other even though they trusted each other with their very lives. Ryan never questioned his past, and neither did Kane his. They just learned to accept each other for what they saw, but never invaded their private space.

Kane ran a hand over his face. The precinct’s caffeine sludge kept the exhaustion at bay, but he wanted nothing more than to return to his house and crawl into bed with Lauren, to make sure that she was okay and never allow her to turn her back to him again. He didn’t like that. It had been like a knife to his chest. But it’d been his fault.

He was more than physically tired. All the years of pushing everyone away was emotionally draining. How much longer could he go on? How much longer could he keep up the facade of a loner when all he wanted was to return home to find someone waiting for him, to share his life and future with?

If he hadn’t watched his sister get beaten to death, maybe he wouldn’t have the guilt that hung over him every day, reminding him how weak he was.

“What

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