Out of Time by Monica McCarty

Author:Monica McCarty
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2018-12-30T16:00:00+00:00

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Kate’s fear turned out to be unwarranted. It wasn’t the guys who’d killed Travis who were responsible for putting Joelle in the hospital; it was her pregnancy.

They’d arrived at the hospital after visiting hours, but Kate’s CIA badge got them the access they needed. As this wasn’t exactly a sanctioned operation, using her credentials was a risk, but the woman barely glanced at it before waving them toward Joelle’s room. A glance at Joelle’s chart showed that she’d been admitted for early contractions. The doctors had given her terbutaline and the contractions appeared to be under control. Joelle was scheduled to be discharged tomorrow.

She was sleeping when they came in. There was another bed, but Colt looked around the curtain to check and shook his head. No one was there.

Kate’s first impressions were that Joelle looked young and vulnerable. Except for the big bulge of her stomach there wasn’t much to her. She was slight of figure and of features, with wispy, dirty blond hair, pale skin, and a small turned-up nose. She couldn’t be more than an inch or two above five feet.

Her eyes when she opened them were green and definitely her best feature. They were striking.

Fortunately Colt was out of eyesight when Joelle woke—she was startled enough by Kate. But she took in her businesslike appearance and relaxed. Until she saw Colt.

She tensed, her knuckles white as she gripped the sheets. Her eyes widened with fear. “Who are you? What are you doing in my room?”

Kate moved to calm her down, putting a gentle hand on the foot of her bed. “I’m Kate. This is my . . . uh . . .” She settled on what she thought would relax the other woman. “Husband, Colt.”

Joelle couldn’t hide her surprise. “You two are married?” She looked back and forth between them. “For real?”

It wasn’t the first time their being married had provoked that reaction.

Colt appeared to be taking Kate’s “try not to be threatening” advice because he sat down in a chair. “Believe me. I don’t know what she ever saw in me, either.”

He said it with a wry smile that was directed at Joelle, but his eyes were all for Kate.

She felt a fresh stab in her chest and pushed it away. Damn him. She wasn’t going to let him do this to her.

But he always did this to her.

Turning back to Joelle, Kate could see from the conspiratorial lift of her brows that she knew exactly what Kate had seen in him. Even looking like hell, Colt was hot. Bad boy, “I’m going to break your heart” hot, but undeniably hot. Six foot four, two-twenty—95 percent of that heavily stacked muscle—dark hair, green eyes, with a face that belonged on a movie screen, there wasn’t a lot not to like.

Except the attitude. Remember the attitude.

“Whaddaya two want then?” Joelle asked with a Mississippi accent that was every bit as heavy as Travis’s had been.

Kate had met the young SEAL only a few times, but he’d been a good kid with simple but strong values: God, country, family.

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