The Others 13 - Walk on the Wild Side by Christine Warren

Author:Christine Warren [Warren, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780312947910
Published: 2008-06-03T04:00:00+00:00

SETTING HER FORK DOWN WITH A WEAK CLINK, Kitty slumped a little in her chair and placed a hand over her chocolate-stuffed belly.

"Now that has what I call medicinal value," she sighed, grinning at Max across the china-littered table. "Nothing can improve the attitude or soften the memory like good dark chocolate."

He chuckled at her over the rim of his wineglass. "I'm glad you enjoyed it, kitten. I'll have to remember to give your compliments to the pastry chief."

"Compliments, schmompliments," she muttered and reached for her cappuccino. "If he makes that for me every night, I'll head back to the kitchen and kiss him smack on the lips."

"Her."

Kitty froze, her eyebrows shooting toward her hairline. A second later she pursed her lips and shrugged. "Then I'll let her make the call. But if she wants tongue, she has to throw in raspberry Napoleons on the weekends."

Max laughed at her cheeky grin and drained the last of his very nice cabernet. God, he couldn't remember the last time he'd smiled this much, and considering the day they'd had, that was saying something. He didn't think he'd ever forget the way his heart had leapt into his throat when he'd rounded the corner of Martin's house and seen her fall to the ground just as the gunshot sounded.

She'd lain so still at first that he'd feared the worst until she'd opened those brilliant green eyes of hers and tried to struggle to her feet with little Maisie Theron clutched to her chest like the crown jewels. Relief had driven him to his knees and he'd wanted to hug her to him and keep her safe for the rest of her life. Then he'd wanted to turn her over his knee and beat her ass cherry-red for scaring him that way.

As it turned out, he hadn't gotten time for either reaction. The sound of another gunshot and the news that Olivia had been injured and the assassin killed had yanked him back to his duty to the pride. Cleaning up the mess that the late Billy Shepard had caused for the Red Rock had taken several hours to accomplish, but now it felt like a weight had been lifted from his shoulders. From what Nick and David, the pride's other belangrik, had been able to uncover, so far it looked like Shepard had been working alone. Max would have them do some more checking, but he had no reason not to think the threat to the pride had finally passed. The threat to Kitty, on the other hand, still had him concerned.

All evening he'd been unable to quite put a finger on the reason why the hair at the back of his neck continued to prickle even after the Shepard matter was settled. It wasn't until he'd been driving Kitty back into the city that he'd begun to count up the times she'd been in danger recently. Taken separately, each incident, from the car accident in Tennessee that had prompted her first change, to the airport mugging and the shooting this afternoon, appeared unrelated.

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