Wyoming Fierce by Diana Palmer

Author:Diana Palmer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: HQN
Published: 2012-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

IT STARTED TO SNOW AS Darby pulled up in front of the country bar and grill with Bodie.

“Now, don’t hit him,” Darby advised as he opened the door for her.

“Chance would be a fine thing,” she muttered.

She strode into the bar. It was very late, and only a couple of men were still there. On the bar was a shattered display of glasses and bottles.

But Cane was nowhere in sight. She frowned and went to speak to the bartender. “Isn’t Cane Kirk here?” she asked tentatively.

He glowered at her. “Come and gone,” he said. He waved his hand around the room. “Hundreds of dollars worth of damage, again. Listen, Bodie, you tell his brothers if he does this one more time, I’m calling the law. Enough is enough. I sympathize with the man, I do, but we’re going to lose customers if this doesn’t stop. Besides that—” he sighed “—maybe a few days in jail will turn him around.”

She grimaced. “I don’t think so,” she confessed. “He’s totally out of control. Do you have any idea where he might have gone?” she added, worried now, because if Cane was that drunk and driving, he could kill himself or somebody else.

“No idea,” the bartender replied. “Except that he started north, toward Jackson Hole.”

“Thanks, Sid,” she told him with a wan smile.

“Hey, no problem. I’m sorry about your grandfather,” he said gently. “He was a good man.”

“Yes. He was.”

“That stepfather of yours,” he muttered. “There’s talk of an investigation. They say he’s operating a porn site and using underage girls.”

Her eyes widened. “Will?” she stammered, horrified. She’d known he filmed things for his own amusement, but she had no idea he was capable of something like that.

“He’s denying it, of course, but one of the girls was forced to come forward by her mother. She was sixteen when she was posing for Will, although she said she never told him her real age. Not that he asked. Damned shame. Sweet, innocent girl, now her body’s plastered all over the internet, thanks to Will, in some shameful ways. Or at least, that’s the gossip,” he elaborated. “I don’t visit websites like that. But plenty do. Even around here.”

“Can’t they take the pictures of her down?” Bodie asked. She was worried in case Will doctored the film he had of her and put it out in some obscene fashion on the web, to get even with her for involving the Kirk brothers.

“Not really,” Sid replied. “They’ve spread around too far, or that’s what the sheriff told me. He said he didn’t know what she could do about it, except her parents could sue Will. But it’s going to make things really hard on her around here. Her mother said she guessed she’d send her to college up in Oregon, where hopefully nobody will recognize her. She’s changed her hair color and all.” He shrugged. “Maybe it will help.”

“Poor kid!”

He nodded. “Adult judgment requires age,” he said quietly. “Will’s friend Larry sweet-talked her, promised her a film career…said he had connections on the West Coast.

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