Walk on the Wild Side by Christine Warren

Author:Christine Warren
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-05-06T01:49:21+00:00

KITTY CLUTCHED A PAPER CUP FULL OF WEAK, cooling tea against her chest and tried not to fall asleep in the waiting room chair Max had shoved her into as soon as they'd reached the hospital. Even if she hadn't been too tired to argue with him by that point, she'd decided she would still have let the arrogant action slide. After all, the man had been forced to explain to the man he loved like a father that Martin's niece had been shot while struggling with the assassin who had meant to break into the Lowe house and kill the Felix of the Red Rock pride.

Under the circumstances, Kitty could cut Max a little slack.

Liv, Kitty had discovered, was named Olivia Anderssen and she was the daughter of Martin's sister who had died when Liv was a teenager, leaving her in the care of Martin and Drusilla just before they divorced. When the couple split, they had decided Olivia needed a mother's influence, and Dru had taken custody, raising Olivia alongside Nadia, who was younger by about four years.

Whether Olivia shared her female relatives' feelings about the sudden appearance of Martin's long-lost daughter Kitty didn't know, because while Drusilla and the kids were trying to nail Kitty to a tree, Olivia had been volunteering at the community center. Apparently, she worked as a lawyer for the firm that represented Martin, and she donated time to help low-income pride members with routine legal matters. She'd still been at the center when the news of the intruder came in, and when the pride had learned about the missing kindergarteners, Olivia had been among the first to volunteer to join the search party.

She had been following Maisie's trail when she ran into the armed man everyone had been searching for and nearly been shot herself. She had tackled the stranger, and in the struggle for the gun, both she and the shooter had taken bullets. Olivia's injury turned out to be a relatively superficial graze through the muscle at the top of her arm, while the man had died almost instantly when the shot pierced his skull and destroyed half his brain.

Superficial, though, hadn't meant anyone took Olivia's injury lightly. Kitty had barely caught a glimpse of the woman's pale, striking face before they had her hustled into the house and then into a car for the trip to the hospital in Vegas.

The sound of footsteps made Kitty raise her head. Max strode toward her, looking intolerably masculine in his dirty, torn clothing with his dark hair mussed and the day's growth of stubble shadowing his chin.

"She looks good," he rumbled, halting in front of Kitty's chair to scowl down at her. "So now it's your turn."

Kitty shook her head. "I've already gotten my door prize." She pulled aside the collar of her T-shirt to show off the edge of a gauze square held in place with white adhesive tape. "A nurse checked me out while you were talking to the doctor. A couple of bruises and a few scrapes.

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