Walker (Bowen Boys) by Kathi S. Barton Read Free Book Online

damn. “I don’t know why,
but he made me feel things… Why would he kiss me and Khan come in and attack
like that?”
    “He was hurt. Khan was hurt by a… by
someone much like you. He is bitter and cold and I despair of him ever getting
over her.” He looked through the open door when there was cursing from beyond
it. “He needs someone to love him so that he’ll trust again.”
    Lynne was still trying to wrap her mind
around the fact that he said someone like her. What did this man know or think
he knew? She had to get out of here and short of taking the catheter with her
on her own, she was coming up short on plans.
    ~~~
    Walker would have taken the glass out
without numbing his brother’s head, but his mother was standing right there. She
was eyeing him as if she knew what he had been planning. She more than likely did.
Walker stretched his neck muscles again and tried to gentle his hands.
    “You’re trying to slow this down on
purpose just so I can’t get up. Well it won’t work. She’s leaving right now.”
    His mom hit Khan in the back of the head
hard and then glared at him when he looked ready to stand up. “You’ll sit right
there or so help me, Khan Bowen, I will take you to the wood shed.” She hit him
again in the shoulder. “What were you thinking attacking your brother like
that? Were you hoping to scare that poor woman so much she’d run?”
    “She doesn’t belong here. And he told me
that he wasn’t going to claim her. And what did I see when I walked into that
bedroom? He was all over her. Practically throwing her back on the bed and
mating with her.”
    Walker growled and pulled a large piece
of glass from Khan’s head without trying to be gentle. He threw down his
instruments and stepped away from Khan before he murdered him. “I’m releasing
her today.” Walker left them standing there to go to the bedroom where Lynne
was. She was sitting in the bed looking out the window, and his dad was going a
mile a minute.
    “Hello, son. Get Khan straightened out?”
    He nodded at his dad as he pulled out is
cell. “Hello, Jane, this is Doctor Bowen. Could you please make arrangements to
come to my parents’ home? I have a patient that needs to be dismissed.” He
didn’t look at Caitlynne or his dad as she made arrangements to come right
over. “She’ll need a ride back to her home. Can you give her a lift?”
    After everything was settled, he turned
to the two of them. His father looked sad, but Caitlynne looked…he was thinking
she looked like she had nothing on her mind, but that wasn’t right either. She
looked indifferent, maybe even bored. He started to speak when his dad stood
up.
    “Well, I guess…I guess it was nice
meeting you, Lynne. I’m sorry that you couldn’t recuperate here, but things…” He
looked at him then at Caitlynne again. “Things aren’t always what you hope
for.”
    His dad walked out of the room with a
pat on his back. Walker looked back at Caitlynne and she turned away from him. He
wasn’t sure what to say to her so he simply leaned against the dresser and
waited for Jane. She would be here very soon as she was a group member and
lived not far from his parents. The door bell chimed four minutes later and he
heard his nurse on the steps. Walker stepped into the hall to talk to her.
    “I need you to remove her catheter and
help her to dress. She’s going to need something for pain no doubt when you get
her home. I’ll give you something to take with you so you can give it to her.” He
tried to tell himself he was doing the right thing. “Don’t tell anyone where
you take her, Jane. She’s been hurt because someone was chasing her.” Not
entirely true, but she had been hurt. And probably by him and Khan more than
she’d been hurt physically by those men. He glanced at the closed door again
before continuing. “If she starts to bleed again or needs…anything I want you
to take her to…take her to…” He didn’t know where to have her