Her Colton Lawman by Carla Cassidy

Author:Carla Cassidy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-11-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Flint and Nina had just finished with their evening wine when he got the call that Gemma was at the café and had been attacked. He quickly buckled on his holster, grabbed his hat and together he and Nina got into his patrol car. He’d rather be handling this situation alone, but there was no way he could leave Nina by herself in the house.

He peeled out of his driveway, questions filling his mind. He’d gotten far too little information from Shelly Maxwell at the café, who had made the call to him and had only told him that his sister was in the café and that she’d been attacked while walking home from the clinic.

Attacked.

What did that mean? Had she been beaten? Raped? His gut twisted in knots. God, he couldn’t imagine why anyone would want to hurt his sister. She was one of the sweetest, most caring young women in the entire town.

“If it was really bad, Shelly would have called for an ambulance and had you go to the clinic,” Nina said, breaking the tense silence.

Flint took some comfort in her words, but not much. The idea of anyone accosting Gemma in any way both terrified and enraged him. He just needed to get to the café as quickly as possible and find out exactly what had happened and Gemma’s condition.

He sped down Main Street and pulled to a halt in front of the café. His heart felt like it might explode out of his chest as he and Nina left the car and raced to the café door. Shelly unlocked it and let them in, and Gemma jumped out of the chair where she’d been sitting and ran to Flint.

As she burrowed herself against him, weeping into his chest, he ran his hands down her arms, over her back, to assure himself she had no obvious wounds.

Only then did he wrap his arms around her and hold her close as she continued to cry. Nina sat on a chair nearby, her features radiating worry.

“Gemma, I need you to calm down so you can talk to me,” Flint finally said. He led her to the chair next to Nina and disentangled her from him and physically sat her down.

He pulled a chair up before her, much the way he had the night Nina had run into the police station, hysterical and crying after witnessing Jolene’s murder. He waited for Gemma to catch her breath. “Now, tell me exactly what happened,” he said.

“I was just walking home from the clinic, and he came from behind me.” Gemma drew a deep breath as if mentally attempting to calm herself. “He shoved me into an alley and tried to choke me.” She reached a hand up and touched her throat where Flint could see the skin was already bruising.

“Who was it?” he asked as he tightened his fists at his side.

“I...I don’t know. I never saw him. He was behind me the whole time with his arm wrapped around my throat.

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