Kano's Keep by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781773363301
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2021-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

At that, Catherine burst out laughing. “Oh, God, yes!” she said. “Some people have better families than mine though.”

“Sounds like most families are better than yours, until they get handed the kind of cards you were dealt.”

“I guess. Being treated that way, I now understand those issues better, can relate to my clients easier,” Catherine said.

“Just because she is your mother,” Ice said, “doesn’t mean she has to continue to influence you.”

“And yet any psychologist would tell you that our formative years have a huge effect on who we are.”

“Once you become an adult, you can effect the change you want,” Ice said calmly. “You don’t have to be held hostage to who your mother is.”

“I like the idea of that,” she said quietly.

“Obviously Kano had something to do with your awakening, regarding what was going on in your mother’s world, but you can’t blame the messenger for something like this. You would have found out eventually.”

“Maybe,” she said, “but still it tends to be the messenger who gets blamed, isn’t it?”

“Only because he’s an easy scapegoat,” she said cheerfully. “Kano, take a sharp left and then a hard right.”

“It’s okay,” Catherine said. “This is definitely the warehouse my mother was using.”

“Was?”

“Yeah. I don’t know if it’s hers or not anymore.”

“We’re running a check on that,” Ice said. “We have it as a Kingdom Securities’ property that’s currently being leased out to … Gosh, a French word.”

“Lovineaux?” Catherine asked. “That’s one of my mother’s companies.”

“That’s it,” Ice said, “and that puts her in the thick of this.”

“You know she’ll want you, Kano,” Catherine said.

“Yep, so I’ll trade myself for Fallon.”

“Why would you do that?” Catherine asked, looking at him in horror. “She really doesn’t like you.”

“That’s why she took Fallon. Because she wants her chunk out of my hide.”

“What for?” Ice said.

“I dared to awaken her daughter to the pleasures of the flesh,” he said drily. “DeeDee has never forgiven me for what that awakening also brought upon her. From that moment on, her daughter was never quite so gullible to DeeDee’s wiles.”

“Uh, yeah,” Ice said, “you’ll pay for that one.”

“Unless I can get in there and figure a way out first.”

“I’m going with you,” Catherine said.

“That’s not a good idea,” he replied.

“Doesn’t matter if it is or it isn’t,” Catherine snapped back. “I get that you probably want to go in there and just shoot her. But I can’t imagine that she would show up here.”

“No, I don’t imagine she will. She’s got something else in mind. She doesn’t have to do her killing herself,” he said, “and prefers to get other people to do her dirty work.”

“So why would you walk into the trap?” Catherine snapped.

“Because I do have emotions,” he said, “and my emotions are telling me to keep Fallon alive. This wasn’t his fight. It’s all about my problem.”

“You mean, my problem,” she said.

“Yes,” he said. “If I hadn’t hooked up with you, we wouldn’t be in this situation. DeeDee wouldn’t still be waiting to roast my testicles on an open fire.

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