Dark Warrior: Kid (Dark Cloth Series Book 2) by Lenore Wolfe Read Free Book Online Page B

heart—she is bound to find her answers,” he replied.
    Mandy cocked her head to one side. Glancing at her, Kat couldn’t help but grin. “He did sound like a medicine man, just then, didn’t he.” she said.
    “You’re getting good at that,” Mandy said now, turning her attention on Kat, appearing a little irritated.
    “What? Reading your mind?” Megan teased. “That must bug the heck out of you,” she grinned. “The very idea that someone might know what’s going on in that mind of yours .”
    Kat turned her gaze on Meg. What an odd way of speaking, she had. Kat realized that she’d noticed it before. She just hadn’t had time to think about it.
    Cord grinned at Mandy, for once agreeing with Meg. Then, he turned back to Kat. “Just make sure you come home when you’re ready.”
    Mandy nodded her head in agreement with Cord, staring at Kat, sniffing. Kat tried to smile at her, through her trembling lips.
    Finally, she muttered almost under her breath, “Now, how will I ever tell Kid?”
     

Chapter Six
    A Wild Rose
     
    Though Kat hadn’t been completely honest with Mandy, Meg and Cord, she hadn’t lied about the restlessness she felt. She did feel restless—especially when everyone expected her to let the men of the family handle her business. She’d always handled what she needed on her own. Now, she felt expected to turn that over.
    But Kat loved Kid, so restlessness hadn’t really been the driving force behind her drastic and increasingly appalling change in plans.
    The dreams drove her.
    She still hadn’t figured out the answer to broach the subject of her leaving by that evening, when she went to look for Kid. Failing that, she took her time grooming her horse and putting him into his stall, but she still found herself no closer to how to tell Kid of her decision than she had been when she woke up that morning. In the end, she stalled so long, Kid wound up finding her .
    When he did, he pulled her around for a deep kiss.
    She wrapped her arms around his neck, unable to believe she would actually leave his side—even for a moment. She had no idea how long this would take—had no way of predicting that. But her dreams had revealed a story of a past she hadn’t known existed—and started a slow burning, deep within her soul.
    Frustrated, Kat had come to realize that she would never get any peace with this—until she learned if there were facts behind her theory.
    Not that the bounty hunter had left her much choice.
    Though, she couldn’t put her finger on what had really taken place, she’d been too young when it happened to figure that out, one thing she knew for certain—if she told her friends the facts behind her decision—they’d never let her ride out town alone.
    A gut feeling had begun to press her into finding out the truth behind her childhood—the moment she’d recognized that her dreams were actually memories. Someone had lied to her. And the more she recovered of her the memories of her childhood, the more she felt like her entire life had been based on that lie.
    The little she remembered told her something had gone wrong when she’d been a very young girl, and Kat couldn’t ignore these memories. She couldn’t go back to pretending her life hadn’t changed. Her life, as she’d known it, had been forever altered, when Katl learned that nothing about her life had been the truth.
    She pulled back, gazing into Kid’s beautiful dark eyes. He frowned. She knew he’d picked up on her misery.
    “Okay,” he said. “Out with it.”
    To her surprise, her eyes filled with tears, yet again, instead of the well-thought-out words she’d intended. She blurted out, instead, everything about her dreams—and her returning memories.
    “My whole past has been based on a lie,” she said, staring up at him. “Now, someone is after me—and I don’t even know why. All I know is that every instinct in me is telling me that all of this has something to do with all of the lies