Justify by Kristin Harte

Author:Kristin Harte
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781944336530

Chapter Twelve

Gage

Need. It burned so bright inside of me, blazing a path from my groin to my throat. I needed Katie—her presence, her smile, her eyes locked on mine with that happy expression on her pretty face. Needed it. I’d come back from making Rock’s death look like an accident to thoughts of getting her the hell out of there. Instead, the second I saw her standing in that kitchen looking so fucking sexy and fuckable, I’d become a goddamned beast with one thought on my mind—getting inside that hot, curvy little body. And when she’d admitted to cooking for the town? When she’d admitted that people knew where she was staying? That one thought had turned from one of lust to one of pure need to protect.

We definitely would not be going back to Bishop’s place.

Alder stood in the dining room staring out the front window toward the highway that ran perpendicular to Main Street. You could just make out the intersection, just see any cars that might happen to pass by, though what he was looking for, I didn’t know. Something bad, if the intensity of his stare was any indication. Shye sat behind the bar with a book, looking completely calm and patient. And distracted.

“You get everything handled?” he asked, not looking at me. Not asking specifics on purpose. The less anyone knew about what Bishop and I had been doing, the better.

“Absolutely.”

“Good. Finn called.” Alder said, his eyes still watching the street outside. “The sheriff passed the Jury Room about ten minutes ago.”

Which meant he was heading this way. No wonder Alder couldn’t look away from the view outside. “You think he’s going to stop here?”

“Don’t know. You sure you handled shit?”

As in, could the murder be pinned on me. “There’s always the unknown, but if he shows, it’d likely not be for me.”

“And my brother?”

“Less likely for him.”

“Which leaves us with Katie. What’s her relationship with him like these days?”

Fuck. Nothing to do but be honest. “He’s definitely the one who ordered the kidnapping, but I don’t know her side of things.”

It wasn’t often that someone caught Alder Kennard off guard, but apparently, I just had. “What do you mean, you don’t know?”

“We haven’t talked about him.”

“You planning on it?”

Not yet, but soon. “Of course.”

“Good, because I don’t like surprises. He’s in bed with the Soul Suckers, and we need to know how close Katie is with him so we can figure out how to handle her.”

He wouldn’t be handling her at all, but I understood what he meant. Didn’t like it, but understood it. Any relationship between her and her uncle made us all more vulnerable to the Soul Suckers, especially Katie. A fact I wasn’t unaware of. “I’ll take care of it.”

Alder nodded, still watching the outside world with stiff shoulders and a parade-rest stance. Waiting. Ready to fight if needed. “The Soul Suckers are going to come back for us. For Katie.” He paused, his voice dropping lower as he nearly whispered, “For my Shye.

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