Loving Baby by Tyler Anne Snell

Author:Tyler Anne Snell [Snell, Tyler Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-10-27T15:11:18+00:00

Chapter Twelve

James was the fastest. He’d bolted out of the kitchen before Suzy had time to step clear of the island. Billy was next. The aches from the night before came back with force as she followed, but she pushed through them.

A woman had screamed.

Had Patricia learned about James already and come to deliver the baby? Had she been followed? Were Grayton and his men on the front lawn, guns up and high as they stood next to the garden beds?

The possibilities had her breathing ratcheted up higher than when she’d been shooting out of the back of a pickup truck.

Was the baby out there, too? Right in the middle of harm’s way?

Suzy shut down all lines of what if the moment she ran through the front door.

There were no droves of men with guns pointed at them. Nor were there any babies caught defenseless between them. Instead, there was only Queso, standing with his hands straight up in the air, a cigarette hanging limp between his lips, James’s and Billy’s guns both pointed at him and a girl clutching her purse to her chest.

“Chelsea?” James asked, clearly surprised. He wasn’t the only one.

“What in God’s name is going on around here?” she shrieked. “Why do you have a gun?”

James holstered the object in question. Suzy followed suit. Billy stayed firm in his stance.

“Why did you scream?” James replied, matching her volume.

She pointed to Queso, who wasn’t moving an inch. “I dropped my phone and bent down to get it, and then saw this guy just staring!”

James turned so fast on Queso that it was nearly comical.

“You were staring at my sister while she was bending over?” he asked, volume still high.

The poor boy tried to sound tough, but his words lost their edge around the butt of his cigarette.

“No way, Padre! I was going crazy inside, so I wanted to take a smoke break.” He pointed at Chelsea, hands still in the air. “It ain’t my fault she didn’t hear me walk up. I wasn’t checking her out, just trying to figure out who she was!”

James’s anger wasn’t appeased so easily. Suzy walked over to his side and touched his elbow lightly. Then she nodded to Billy. He lowered his gun.

“This is just another reason not to smoke,” she said, reaching out and taking the cigarette from his mouth. He made a face like he was going to complain, but she gave him a look she often used on Justin when he needed to think before he spoke. Suzy went to the sidewalk and ground it out. “Come clean this up and get back inside,” she said. “I’ve got some more questions for you.” No one complained at the order, and although Queso looked like he wanted to, the boy dropped his arms and complied.

Not before casting a dirty look at Chelsea, though. She returned it in kind.

“What are you doing here?” James said, rounding back to her when Queso was inside. “Why aren’t you at school?”

“You told me not to come home!”

James waved his arms around wildly.

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