Lone Stallion's Lady by Lisa Jackson

Author:Lisa Jackson [Jackson, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2000-12-12T23:00:00+00:00

“What do you mean, ‘real friendly’?” Jack Henderson asked as he held the telephone receiver to his ear and paced in front of his desk. Glancing out the window, he spied cars whipping up and down the palm-lined street just a couple blocks off Sunset Boulevard. A thin layer of smog had Los Angeles in a choke hold, but that didn’t stop roller-bladers and pedestrians from walking on the bright sidewalks.

“I mean, I saw Gina and Remmington dancing there in the hotel bar, oh, about five, maybe six weeks ago.” Herb Atherton laughed, and the sound was nearly dirty. Jack had never much liked Herb, whose credentials included a law degree but who did little in Jack’s opinion to improve the legal system. Herb was and always would be a taker, a man who had the morals of an alley cat and yet had cultivated the ability to look down on others as if he were related to God. Herb didn’t know the meaning of the word loyalty, but, if the price were high enough, he was willing to do whatever it took to win a case—right or wrong.

“Is that right?” Jack felt the vein above his eye begin to throb. Gina hadn’t mentioned meeting Remmington. In fact, he’d thought she had planned to go to Montana, locate that last heir, if he really existed, then get out. She hadn’t been interested in meeting Larry Kincaid’s brood of illegitimate children, had even balked when Garrett had asked that she be present when they all arrived in Whitehorn.

“Yep, real friendly, if ya know what I mean.”

Jack wanted to reach through the phone and strangle the smug attorney, but he somehow managed to hang on to his patience. “Gina didn’t mention it.”

“I’ll bet she didn’t. She spilled wine all over the guy, then gushed and apologized and ended up going up to his room—you know, to get the stains out or something.” Another nasty laugh that ended in a coughing fit.

“Was there something you wanted?” Jack asked, trying to hide his irritation.

“Yeah, I need a little help trackin’ down a dead-beat father,” Herb said, suddenly very serious. “The jerk up and left the ex-wife and five kids high and dry about six months ago. I thought maybe you’d want to team up and help me out.”

“That’s really Gina’s department,” Jack said, the muscles tightening at the base of his skull whenever he heard about a man walking out on his family. Losers, every one of them—his own father included. “I’ll have her give you a call when she gets into town.”

“Do that.” Herb hung up and Jack was left with a bad taste in his mouth. He didn’t like Herb Atherton’s insinuations about his kid sister, but then, Herb wasn’t one to spout off without at least a seed of truth to back him up.

“Damn it all,” Jack growled, wishing Gina would wind up the Kincaid case and hightail it back here. He was always a little restless when she was gone, though he knew he was being overprotective, just as he’d always been.

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