Wrongfully Accused by Ana Barrons

Author:Ana Barrons
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-08-07T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

Gabe was heading back up to check on Kate when her doorbell rang. Ben Stuart stood on the stoop. “Jeez, do you have another facial expression besides a frown?” Gabe asked, moving aside to let the other man in.

Ben’s frown deepened. “Why are you here? And where’s Kate?”

“She’s napping.” Gabe glanced up at the second floor balcony. “Very deeply. I’m going up to check on her again.”

“For a second there you almost looked worried about her,” Ben said. “She’s probably exhausted. Or depressed. Grieving people sleep a lot. And you still haven’t—”

Gabe was climbing the steps. “Kate doesn’t sleep that hard. She crashed in the bathtub and I had a hell of a time waking her up.” He paused and fear curled in his gut. “She didn’t wake up all the way, come to think of it.”

Ben was right on his heels. “What the hell’s going on, Gabe? If you’re taking advantage of her I swear to God, I’ll—”

Gabe spun on him. “What? You’ll what? Kick my ass?”

Ben’s jaw tightened. “If I have to.”

For a long moment they stared each other down. “I’m not taking advantage of her,” Gabe said finally, although it galled him to answer to another man. “We have unfinished police business.”

They went into Kate’s bedroom and Gabe flipped on the light. She didn’t as much as flinch. “See what I mean?” Gabe said. “She’s been out like a light since about four o’clock. Did you ever know her to sleep like this?”

Ben approached the bed. “Well, she’s on pain medicine, right?”

“Wrong. She refuses to take it. I gave her four Advil when I got here and that’s all the pain medicine she’d had since Alison left yesterday.”

Ben’s sat beside Kate on the edge of the bed, pressed two fingers to her wrist and studied his watch for several seconds. The furrow between his brows deepened, and he lifted one of Kate’s eyelids, then the other. “Shit,” he said.

“What?”

“Her pupils are dilated.” He looked up at Gabe. “Call an ambulance.”

Gabe fumbled his cell out of his pocket and made the call, panic tearing at his gut. “Is she in any danger? Shit, I should have called earlier.”

“And she’s naked,” Ben said.

“Well, don’t look,” Gabe shot back, and pulled a robe out of her closet. “Move and let me put this on her.”

“What are you doing with her, you bastard? And don’t give me that crap about police business. Last I heard you wouldn’t touch her with a ten-foot pole, and now you have exclusive rights to her body? If she were awake what would she say about that?”

“Not now,” Gabe ground out. “I’ll explain later. But you won’t like it.”

Ben pressed his lips together. “No, I’m sure I won’t. Just tell me you’re not setting her up to go to prison.”

“She’ll go to prison over my dead body,” Gabe said. “That good enough to get you off the fucking bed so I can cover her before the medics get here?”

Ben stood and Gabe blocked the other man’s view with his back.

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