Pretty Lawless by Linton Jodi

Author:Linton, Jodi [Linton, Jodi]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, law enforcement, Jodi Linton, Romance, Suspense, Select, Texas ranger, Texas, entangled
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-09-14T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

GUNNER

I’d waved my asshole card.

Though I wanted to be that man, the type that comforted and held his girl’s hand in a time of need, for Laney, I was still a guy. And an hour of hysterical crying had been my breaking point. So as usual I’d pulled a chickenshit move and passed her off to Luke. I needed a moment to collect my thoughts, and besides, Luke always pouted about not spending enough time with our cute brunette deputy.

The thing is, I’d rather have a pissed-off Laney than an upset one on any given day. And sometimes, if I admitted it, well, just the sight of Laney puffy faced and worried brought back too many tortured memories of that fateful day we lost our baby. Not something I was ready to stare head-on.

That’s why I’d pulled my man card and chosen to hang out with a shirtless Colt Larsen instead of soothing my girlfriend. Clearly my priorities were out of whack.

“That chick of yours is a fucking gun magnet,” Marshal Larsen grumbled while the doctor finished wrapping the gauze around his midsection.

I couldn’t argue with such a damn good assessment of Laney. Although she’d have my balls in a mason jar if she heard me agreeing with him.

So to save my ass from the chopping block with a smart-mouthed brunette deputy, I gave the lawman a noncommittal smile. “Almost done here, Larsen?”

“It was just a damn bullet graze. There’s no need to babysit me, Wilson.”

“Could’ve fooled me,” I said on a hat tug. “All that blood on the pavement scared the shit out of Laney.”

Colt grinned. “Glad at least one of us can get the girl riled up.”

“Let’s not make things worse.”

He slapped the blood-splattered Stetson on his head and slid off the bed. “Not much more could go wrong by the way I see it.” Colt holstered the gun back on his hip, taking a moment to toss a wink at the nurse scribbling away on a tablet as she stepped through the doorway and out into the hall. He stopped and frowned, the wrinkles growing along his forehead. “All of y’all are crazy as shit,” he said, pushing through the doorway, but then he stalled, stepped back, and pulled it closed. Secure. No one outside the room would be any wiser about what transpired between the two of us. “Tell me something, Wilson. Why is Redbud setting up a criminal empire in Pistol Rock?” Colt scrubbed his jaw, eyes locked on my nervous stance by the window. “The man has no connections to the town other than a few business associates who help him run his melon farm while he travels from state to state. And the records show, the only other time he’s strutted his boots on Pistol Rock soil was almost twenty years ago, before leaving Texas altogether to attend college.”

Caught red-handed.

Kicking off the wall, I stepped in front of the nosy marshal. “Not a word of this outside the room. Understand?”

Colt laughed. “Holy shit.

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