Promise and Protect by Lori Ryan

Author:Lori Ryan [Ryan, Lori]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: texas, Abandon, love, Redemption, Sheriff, Murder, Betrayal
ISBN: 9781940499307
Publisher: NLA Digital LLC
Published: 2016-01-12T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

KATELYN PACED THE kitchen. Normally, when she was upset she’d go to the studio and lose herself in her art. That wasn’t possible right now. Her studio was still being built, and all of her art and supplies were packed away in storage boxes in her car and her father’s dining room. She thought about cooking, but the refrigerator and freezer were already filled to capacity with casseroles and cakes and salads from her neighbors who insisted on feeding her while her father was ill.

Katelyn sighed. She should be grateful to them. She was grateful. But she was also irritated, aggravated, annoyed, and pretty damned ticked off at this point. At John, if she was honest. Not her neighbors.

If he would just get back here, she could vent her frustration…no, it was anger really. She could vent her anger where it belonged—on him. He was pushing her away. The only thing she couldn’t figure out was why.

But the why didn’t matter. Katelyn had lived her whole life letting her father push her away and she was tired of it. Whatever was going on in John’s head, she’d just tell him to stop it.

Sure…that oughta work, Katelyn. Good plan.

Katelyn huffed out a breath and tossed herself down in a chair to wait.

She popped back up again. Pacing was better. Moving would let her keep up a good head of steam to spew at John when he came back.

The sound of a car door closing pulled her from her thoughts. She heard the front door open and murmured conversation in the living room between John and the deputy who had been babysitting her. Katelyn braced herself in the kitchen. She’d just wait for him to come in and then tell him how this was going to go. She’d tell him she wouldn’t stand for him pulling away whenever he wanted to. That whatever was going through his head was…well, she really didn’t know what was going through his head so she had no idea what she’d say. But, she’d say something, dammit.

The look on his face when he walked into the kitchen stopped Katelyn short. He looked positively wrecked. The man in front of her was utterly destroyed. Katelyn looped her arms around his neck and pulled him down to her, resting her forehead on his. She needed to be close to him, to feel him and know he could feel her.

“What is it?” she whispered.

John didn’t answer. He lifted her into his arms and carried her to the couch, holding her tight to him as though he’d never let her go. And, Katelyn realized, she never wanted him to let go. The feeling of being in his arms felt right, as though everything that was messed up in her world was suddenly okay. Or, at least, didn’t matter very much. With his arms around her, Katelyn could ignore all the stress and the fear, and the questions and doubts. She could let herself just be.

John sat on the couch with Katelyn in his lap and leaned back.

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