Home on the Ranch_Colorado Cowboy SEAL by Laura Marie Altom

Author:Laura Marie Altom [Altom, Laura Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-04-12T19:09:26+00:00

Chapter 11

“Let’s go,” Kyle said to Robin. “I’ll make your processing as painless as possible.”

“You call essentially ripping my innocent child from her mother painless?” In a mad dash for the bedroom, she charged around the sheriff.

Seconds later, the bedroom door slammed.

“This is why I needed cuffs.” Kyle sighed. “Some days I really hate my job.”

“You’re an ass. Would it kill you to look away? Do you know she still has bruises from the last time her dead bastard ex used her for a punching bag?” Laredo couldn’t escape the truth that this mess could somehow be his fault. If he hadn’t helped Kyle at the booth, if the sheriff hadn’t had extra time to see Robin, maybe none of this would now be happening.

“If I were to look away, then I’m on the same level as the criminals I lock behind bars.”

“Keep telling yourself that when a woman who’s already been through more than enough physical and mental pain now has to endure the added agony of handing over her baby.” Laredo abandoned Kyle in favor of helping Robin.

“Have her out here in five or we’re doing this my way.”

“Screw you. Make this any harder on her and you can arrest me, too.”

“Laredo...”

Laredo didn’t waste his time looking back.

Facing Robin’s closed bedroom door, he knocked. When there was no reply, whether she wanted to see him or not, he entered the room only to find himself alone.

A window screen had been removed.

Gauzy curtains writhed in the light breeze.

Shit. Kyle would lose his mind.

Knowing she couldn’t have gone far, Laredo returned to the kitchen. “She’s packing. But give her ten minutes. Babies have a ton of gear.”

“Thanks for talking her down. While you two get loaded, I’ll put up the lunch leftovers. You probably won’t feel like cooking once you get home.”

“You think?” Laredo ducked back into the bedroom, closing the door behind him before jogging to the window. He crouched to exit, took a moment to plan his next move. Robin’s boot prints might as well have left a neon trail in the soft, sandy soil. He followed them up and over the smallish hill behind his house. The afternoon heat beat him like a fist. Robin and the baby wouldn’t last long without sun protection and gallons of water.

They had neither.

Compounding their trouble, how long until Kyle caught on to the fact that he’d been duped?

Laredo cupped his hands to his mouth. “Robin!”

When she failed to reply, he kept to her trail. A hundred yards later, Lark’s pitiful cries carried on the hot, dry wind.

“Robin, stop!” When she kept walking, laden with two diaper bags, he jogged to meet her. “What are you doing other than deliberately trying to piss off Kyle?”

“He’s not taking my baby.”

“I won’t let him. We’ll think of a way. But to get him on our side, we have to at least pretend to play by his rules. Running is going to confirm his assumption that you’re a flight risk.”

“I am.” She was still walking.

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