Protecting Their Child by Angi Morgan

Author:Angi Morgan [Morgan, Angi]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: ROMANCE - - SUSPENSE
Publisher: HARLEQUIN
Published: 2013-04-06T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Say it already!

Cord scanned the horizon. That chopper would be back. No question of if, only when. They should be looking for their best way down the other side. They needed an escape route, not a conversation. Come on, Kate, just say it.

He could listen to her tell him how much she hated him and look for a trail. Keeping his back to her, he moved to the place he’d last seen the chopper. He should have borrowed the binoculars when he’d lifted the ammo and pistol from Burke’s gun cabinet.

Trying to look past her, he made the mistake of looking at her. She’d pulled her knees to her chest. No sighing. At least none that he heard. How was he supposed to know what this gesture meant?

“I’m listening, but we have to find a way down. You have to understand.”

“Oh, I do.” She jumped to her feet, pulled her gear on and joined him.

“I thought you had something you needed to say.”

“I’m still debating if you’re actually ready to hear it.”

“I could quote my shrink if you want. She’d say it’s—”

“It’s a woman?” she interrupted.

“Yeah, why?”

“I’m just surprised, that’s all.” Her short inhale and momentary hold of its release told him she was more than surprised. “Go ahead. What would your doctor tell me?”

“She’d advise that you can’t decide if someone’s ready for a confrontation. You can’t wait for perfect timing. Things just happen. Life happens.”

Kate cocked her head curiously. “All right. No perfect timing. Lord knows, yours certainly wasn’t, perched on a four-foot mountain ledge like we were.”

“Go on then.” He should have listened to himself. Talking was a bad idea.

“You need to believe me. I only blame one person for the death of our daughter. Jorje Serna is a murderer many times over.”

“It’s easy to say that, Kate. But I know you blame me.”

“You blame yourself enough for the both of us, Cord!” Kate yelled. “I’m not angry because you were shot, near dead in a hospital and couldn’t be there twenty-four/seven protecting me.”

“He wouldn’t have come after you—”

“Stop it! Just stop it!” She closed her mouth and began shaking her hands to calm down. “Listen to your own advice and stop thinking you can interpret everyone’s thoughts or predict their reactions. I did not divorce you because of the shooting.”

“Then why the hell did you?” The words were out quickly, surprising her, if that look was any indication. “I can’t remember how many times you said I wasn’t there. Didn’t you know I couldn’t be.”

“I knew you were a Texas Ranger when we met. You never hid your career goals. You transferred here because of me. I couldn’t and still don’t want to change you. I loved the man who wears that uniform.”

“You divorced me.”

“I couldn’t do it anymore.”

A piece of rock chipped near Kate’s boot and flew into the air off the cliff.

“Back.” He rushed between her and the open canyon, and they scrambled to where she’d been sitting earlier. “I didn’t hear anything.

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