Lone Star Christmas Rescue by Margaret Daley

Author:Margaret Daley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-11-23T05:00:00+00:00

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Drake couldn’t drag his gaze away from Kay’s mouth. He wanted to kiss her again.

No, I shouldn’t.

Those words screamed through his mind, taunting him. He shouldn’t have before. She was vulnerable. He couldn’t lose focus on his main task: protecting her and Kaleb.

For a long moment, he hovered suspended between kissing her and pulling away—doing the right thing. A battle raged inside him, and it took all his willpower to slide his hands away from her and lean back.

Her forehead furrowed as two patches of red colored her cheeks. The urge to cup her face and explain his dilemma was strong. But the closer they became, the harder it would be to deal with her situation objectively. Because in the past few days, he’d realized one thing: whatever Kay was involved in wouldn’t go away, and someone out there wanted to kill her and take Kaleb. He hadn’t been looking at her circumstances as a police officer but as a man attracted to her. He was missing something vital that might mean the difference between life and death.

He surged to his feet. “I need to relieve Dallas.” He started for the door, snatching his overcoat from a peg.

“You still have half an hour. Stay and rest. I’m going to bed.”

At the door, he glanced over his shoulder. “That’s okay. I need to call the captain and see what’s going on in Cactus Grove, especially concerning the death at the jail.”

The hurt in her eyes pierced his heart. She covered the distance to the bedroom door, quietly opened it and slipped inside—without a word.

He felt the knife in his heart twist even more.

He stalked outside before he made another mistake and sought to explain how he couldn’t care for someone and lose her like he had his wife. He’d barely pulled himself together after her murder and the loss of their unborn child.

He dug deep for his professional mantle—for Kay’s sake and his.

Cold air embraced him with icy arms. In a few hours, the temperature had dropped at least thirty degrees.

Drake strode toward Dallas. “Have you heard from the El Paso office?”

“Nope.”

“Then I’ll give Brad a call and see if he has any news about the suspect’s death. He didn’t seem like a guy who would kill himself.” Drake took the sat phone from his partner. “Kay and Kaleb are in the bedroom.”

“Was Kaleb asleep while I was out here?”

“Yes. Why?”

“Because he wasn’t a happy camper earlier. I didn’t think Kay would be able to get him down. Poor little guy. He must be having a hard time understanding what’s going on.”

“Or he does and doesn’t like it,” Drake said with a chuckle. “If I were in his shoes, that would be how I would deal with all the chaos.”

Dallas headed for the cabin. “I’ll relieve you in four hours.”

The nearly full moon brightened the landscape, but not enough. Once Drake had finished talking to Brad, he would use his night-vision binoculars and circle the cabin, panning the terrain from all angles.

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