Guts & Glory: Hunter (In the Shadows Security Book 3) by Jeanne St. James

Author:Jeanne St. James [St. James, Jeanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jeanne St. James
Published: 2019-10-04T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

He made one more round through the quiet house. He had a difficult time falling asleep on her couch tonight even though the living room was larger than Leo’s bedroom. But moving downstairs didn’t help, so he gave up.

He walked down the short hallway at the top of the steps, opened Frankie’s door and peered through the dark. His night vision was decent when he wasn’t in the middle of a panic attack, so he could see Frankie’s shadowed figure curled around Leo. He’d tell her in the morning she could move him back into his room. He wasn’t going to be able to use the boy’s bed. He also needed to explain why.

However, he wasn’t sure if he was ready to share that info with her.

It was one thing to have a weakness, it was another to expose it.

None of the Shadows knew the extent of his panic attacks, they just knew he didn’t like tight spaces.

He let his gaze slide over the bed. The top sheet was kicked onto the floor since Frankie complained Leo made her too hot.

But it tugged at him, seeing mother and son. That dedication and deep love she had for Leo, even though he was a result from a bad situation.

He closed his eyes as another memory pushed forward. One he hadn’t thought about in a long time. His mother trying to encircle him in her arms after the news of his father’s suicide in prison.

But Hunter didn’t need to be comforted. He didn’t need his tears wiped away. Because they were non-existent. He felt nothing. If anything, he felt a strange sense of relief the man would never hurt a soul again.

Not one more person would be his victim.

And the same needed to be true for Taz.

It was up to Hunter to make it so. Especially for the two in that bed. And he’d do his best to give them the safety and security they deserved.

He pulled the door until it was only open a crack and moved to the stairway, then settled halfway down the steps where he could keep one eye on the front entryway and one ear towards Frankie’s room.

He dropped his head in his hands and drew his palms over his face, thinking about everything that went on only that morning at Manning Grove PD.

Steel had met him there, having already given Chief Max Bryson a heads up that they were coming.

“Not sure if this will work,” Hunter grumbled out in the parking lot of the police station.

Steel shrugged. “Can’t hurt to try, if they’re willing.”

“But they need a reason to be willing,” Hunter reminded him.

“The fucker skipped out on parole. He’s got a warrant, and they know Frankie personally since they all grew up in the same town. It probably won’t be hard to convince them that we’re looking out for her. At least in a roundabout way, but they don’t need to know that.”

“But if the cops flush him out, that means he’ll either be on their radar or, worse, end up in their custody.

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