Page 41 of Cowboy Wolf's Secret Baby

“No thank you,” Beth said. “As Conner said, you’ve done enough.”

Kelly pretended to gasp in shock. “I really don’t know what you mean. I’m just trying to be nice.”

She turned and walked away. Beth caught a glimpse of the smirk on her face as she disappeared into the darkness.

I just hope she doesn’t try anything more drastic, Beth thought, with a shudder. “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.”

14

Conner

“What in the hell did you do?” Conner asked when Kelly opened up her hotel room door.

She was staying in the same hotel as he was, in the room right across the hall from him. He was frankly surprised that she hadn’t tried to break into his room.

Kelly clutched a towel over her chest, letting some of it fall away, showing almost every bit of skin she had.

“I have no idea what you’re talking about,” she asked. “If you want to come in, I’m sure we’ll figure everything out.”

She batted her eyelids and let a little more of her towel slip. It barely covered her nipples and the shaved area between her legs.

“You’re disgusting and you have absolutely no shame or grace,” he said.

“What’s the matter? You don’t like what you see?” she asked, moving her towel, completely exposing herself to him.

“Pardon the cliché, but I wouldn’t touch you with someone else’s dick,” Conner said.

She gasped. “I can’t believe you would say that to me.”

“I said it and I meant it. Stay away from Beth and Taryn.”

“Ooh. It sounds to me like you guys are a little more than just friends,” she said, wrapping the towel back around her.

“What we are or what we aren’t is none of your damn business. You stay the hell away from them.”

“Or what?” she called. “What’s a big cowboy like you going to do to little ole me?”

“Like the saying these days goes, ‘fuck around and find out.’” Conner stormed back to his room, furious.

He couldn’t make a complaint to the rodeo commission because he had no proof that she had done anything. The parking lot didn’t have any cameras. She was going to do something stupid though, and get caught. He just hoped that neither Beth nor Taryn got hurt in the process.

Conner paced around his hotel room. It was too late to shift and run. He didn’t know the mountain well enough. He wouldn’t get lost, but there could be ravines or other nasty little surprises in the woods that could be dangerous.

He remembered that he hadn’t called Micah.

“It’s about time you called,” Micah said after they greeted each other. “The last I heard was that you figured out why Beth looked familiar.”

“Sorry, things have been crazy. By the time I’ve been getting back to the hotel room, it’s been too late to call. I don’t want to wake you up.”

“I appreciate that. Sleep is a precious commodity around here these days,” Micah said. “What did you find out?”

Conner told Micah about how Matilda had cast a memory loss spell on him so that he forgot about Beth. “I remember standing on the sidewalk, confused. I had no idea why I was there.”

“That had to be disconcerting.”

“It was,” Conner said. “I also found out that I had a daughter. She’s ten. Her name is Taryn. Beth said that she found out that she was pregnant right after I left. She is a wolf shifter, as well as a witch.”

“Wow. Congrats. That must have been a shocker.”

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