All I Want Is You (Kimani Romance) by Dara Girard Read Free Book Online

whether she should be relieved or frightened. She’d known and seen another man who could be just as violent and brutal. The thought of him made her take a step back, and she dropped the bone. She quickly picked it up, but the sound caught JD’s attention. He turned to her and frowned. “You were supposed to stay by the car.”
    “I thought you might need my help,” she stammered, not wanting to have his temper directed at her.
    JD pushed himself from the wall and walked up to her, as if sensing her unease. “You don’t have to worry. He won’t bother you again.”
    She glanced behind him. “We can’t just leave them like this.”
    JD gently took her elbow and led her away. “Sure we can. Where’s Baxter?”
    “In the car. I made sure he’s got enough air.”
    “Good. Let’s go home.”
    Monica nodded, not trusting herself to speak. She let her gaze fall and noticed a red stain soaking through his shirt sleeve.
    “You’re bleeding again.”
    JD glanced down and swore. “At this rate I’m going to run out of shirts.”
    Monica reached over to examine the cut, but he stopped her. “Don’t worry about it. I just want to get out of here.” JD softened his tone with a wink. “You can nurse me at home.”
    Monica got in the driver’s seat. “You could bleed to death before then.”
    “But you’d never let that happen,” he said, fumbling with his seat belt.
    Monica took the belt from him and locked it in place.
    “See?” JD said. “I’m in good hands.”
    She started the ignition. After driving a few blocks, she said in a grim tone, “You enjoyed that, didn’t you? You enjoy fighting.”
    JD shook his head. “No, I enjoy winning.”
    Monica fell quiet and tapped the steering wheel. “I think you should go.”
    He swung around to face her. “You too? Have you been talking to Hostie?”
    “No, but he has the right idea. You should go somewhere else.”
    “Why?”
    Monica threw up her hand in exasperation. “Just look at all the trouble you’ve caused in one day. You’ve gotten yourself stabbed, adopted a dog that’s neurotic—”
    “I’m only fostering him.”
    Monica continued. “Angered the guy at the one general store in town and antagonized a man whose cousin just happens to be the sheriff and then beat him and his friends unconscious.”
    “I tried to come up with a reason not to. You heard me.”
    “JD, I want a quiet life, and I know that will be impossible with you around. So I suggest you book a hotel on a nice island somewhere and relax there.”
    JD rested his head back. “It won’t work.”
    “What?”
    He grinned. “You can’t get rid of me that easily.”
    “It’s nothing personal.”
    JD lowered his voice, reached over and twirled a strand of loose hair around his finger. “Somehow I have a feeling that it is.”
    Monica slapped his hand away and tucked the wayward strand back under her head wrap. “What did I tell you about touching me?”
    He rested back and stared out the window. “The truth is I don’t want to be anywhere else but here.”
    “I thought you said there was nothing here.”
    He sent her a significant look. “I was wrong.”
    Monica focused on the road. No, she wouldn’t fall for that. He was just trying to distract her from the truth. He had his secrets and so did she. Since he wasn’t going to leave, she’d have to come up with another plan.
     
    He had to get away before anyone could reach him. JD zipped up his carrying case—he didn’t have time topack anything bigger—then headed for the door. His cell phone rang. He saw the number and answered.
    “Where are you?” his associate Cliff Englewood asked in a panic. “The Snyder meeting starts in ten minutes.”
    “Fill in for me. I’m taking a break.”
    “You can’t do that now! You just put one of the most powerful men in jail and saved another company from ruin. People want to talk to you. You’re news.”
    “I don’t care.” He was used to being news.
    “Do you know