Kansas City Cowboy by Julie Miller

Author:Julie Miller [Unknown]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-08-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

He didn’t have to look hard to find her.

By the time Boone had rubbed down Big Jim and stowed the tack, night had fallen, and the family and guests from Janie’s reception had all left. In fact, the only vehicle left in the drive was his own black pickup.

So where was Kate?

Boone ran to the house’s mudroom entrance off the kitchen. She’d made such a fuss about him getting back in an hour—okay, so it had been seventy-five minutes—that she’d probably taken off with Spencer Montgomery and gone back to Kansas City. His tardiness was probably all the proof she needed to believe he wasn’t a man of his word.

“Kate?” he shouted. Before he’d taken that ride out to the bluffs and back to clear his head and purge the worst of the sadness and rage that had been simmering beneath the surface all day long, she’d seemed desperate that he keep his promise to return to discuss the task force’s investigation. And she’d seemed equally certain that he wouldn’t. “Kate!”

He tracked his mucky boots straight into the kitchen before he saw her standing at the coffeemaker, pouring a couple of mugs of what smelled like fresh, hot java. The aroma of home-ground beans and the subtler scent of Kate herself filled his nose and drained the fight right out of him.

“You’re here.” He offered the lame greeting, wondering at the relief coursing through his system.

She picked up one mug and carried it across the kitchen to him. “You said you’d come back to talk.”

“I wasn’t sure you believed me.”

“I wasn’t sure I did, either.”

Humbled by her honesty, and determined to convince her that she could count on him to do what he promised, Boone took the mug she offered and took a sip of the fragrant, reviving brew. “Thanks.”

Relieved to know she hadn’t gone and as ready as he was ever going to be to talk about his sister’s secret life, he handed the coffee mug back to Kate and took a few minutes to hang up his hat and jacket, and take off his boots back in the mudroom. After securing his gun and badge in a drawer near the back door, he grabbed the broom and swept his trail out of the kitchen. “If my mother was still alive, she’d have a cow over me tracking this mess into her house.”

He was curiously pleased to notice that Kate hadn’t just made coffee, but had truly made herself at home. She’d kicked off the shoes and hose she’d totaled and was padding around the kitchen in a pair of Boone-sized white socks. When she saw him watching her feet, she thinned her mouth into an apology. “I hope it’s okay if I borrow these. I found them folded up in the basket in the laundry room. My toes were cold.”

“Not at all.” The cotton socks were an odd contrast to the tailored skirt and blouse she still wore, but he liked the homey, not quite so uptight, twist to her wardrobe.

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