Lone Star Winter by Diana Palmer

Author:Diana Palmer
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HQN
Published: 2010-03-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Cy and Lisa were having a late supper at the kitchen table. They watched each other hungrily with every bite as they discussed the changes the baby would mean in their lives. They were delightful changes, and they spoke in low murmurs, smiling at each other between bites. The loud squeal of tires out front caught them un aware and made them tense. Surely it wasn’t another at tack by Lopez or his men…!

Cy was out of the chair and heading for the front door seconds later, his hand going automatically to the phone table drawer where the loaded .45 automatic was kept. He made a mental note to himself to keep his gun locked up once the baby arrived. He motioned Lisa back and moved cautiously out onto the porch. Seconds later, he lowered the weapon. It was Micah Steele, but he was hardly recognizable.

His thick blond hair was disheveled, and he needed a shave. He looked as if he hadn’t slept.

Cy didn’t waste time asking questions. He caught the taller man by the arm and pulled him inside. “Coffee first. Then you can tell whatever you need to.”

“I’ll bring it to the study,” Lisa offered.

Cy smiled at her and bent to kiss her cheek. “I’ll bring it to the study,” he corrected tenderly. “Growing mamas need their rest. Go watch TV.”

“Okay.” She kissed him back, sparing a curious and sympathetic glance for Micah, who nodded politely be fore he preceded Cy into the kitchen.

When Lisa was out of earshot, Cy poured coffee into two mugs and put them on the table.

“Would you rather talk in the study?” Cy asked him.

“This is fine.” Micah cupped the mug in both hands and leaned over it in a slumped posture that said all too much about his mental condition.

Cy straddled a chair across from him. “Okay. What’s wrong.”

“Lopez has Callie,” he said in a husky, tortured voice.

Cy sat stock-still. “When? And how?” he exploded.

“Yesterday, not five minutes after I spoke to her outside her office building,” he said dully. “We had a brief conversation. I warned her that someone I knew might possibly target her or my father. She listened, but she didn’t pay much attention. I told her I was going to have someone watch them for their own safety. But I’d barely gotten back to my motel when Eb phoned and said he’d had an urgent message from Rodrigo that Callie was going to be snatched. I phoned the adult day care where she leaves Dad every day and they said she hadn’t picked him up.” He looked absolutely devastated. “You can set your watch by Callie. She’s always early, if she isn’t right on time. I went looking for her, and I found her car about a block from the senior center on a side street. The driver’s door was standing wide-open and her purse was still in it.”

Cy cursed roundly. “Did you call the police?”

Micah shook his head. He ran a big hand through his hair restlessly.

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