CELEBRITY STATUS (The Kate Huntington mystery series #4) Read Online Free PDF

two-year rebellion. It had felt like a decade. “You’ll be dealing with that eventually you know,” he couldn’t resist pointing out.
                “Don’t remind me. Billy’s full-blown terrible twos right now. I don’t want to think about that same attitude in a six-foot tall teenager.”
                “Or taller, considering his daddy.” Rob grinned, as the waitress delivered their food. Rob swiped the pickle slices off her plate to add to his own stacked on top of his crab cake.
                “I’ve been meaning to do an intervention with you,” Kate teased him, as she spread tartar sauce on the bun of her own sandwich. “Find you a treatment program for pickle addictions.”
                They ate in companionable silence for a few minutes. Then Rob noticed Kate’s face had clouded up again.
                “Kate, what is it? Something’s bothering you.”
                “It’s this case. I really wish I could talk to you about it. It’s somebody Skip referred to me. And what’s really bothering me is not my involvement with the client, but his. He’s providing bodyguard services personally, because it’s a VIP...” She trailed off, wishing she could tell him about the threatening notes and the dead cat. Until she and Cherise had talked about it in this morning’s session, Kate hadn’t realized just how much the cat incident had spooked her, although she’d hidden those feelings from the client.
                “Skip knows how to take care of himself.” Rob covered her hand with his own. “I’ve never met anybody as capable of handling himself as he is. I’ve seen him, we’ve both seen him in tricky situations. He keeps his cool, does what needs to be done. Hell, Kate, he saved our lives three years ago, by keeping his head.”
                Kate turned her hand over and gave his a squeeze, then let go to pick up her fork. She stabbed at her salad. “You’re right. I know you’re right.” She looked down at her plate. “It’s just that I couldn’t handle...”
                When she didn’t finish the thought, Rob said, “I know, Kate. And so does Skip. He’s always careful.”
                Kate poked at her salad some more, without actually eating any, while she got herself under control. Finally she looked up, having blinked away the tears in her eyes. “I know it’s irrational, to be this scared for him. His work really isn’t all that dangerous, and he’s good at it. Heck, when’s the last time you heard about a bodyguard getting hurt in the line of duty. As he’s pointed out to me several times, bodyguards are there as a deterrent and their mere presence keeps the bad guys from trying anything.”
                She stabbed again at her plate.
                “Kate, I don’t think you have to kill that salad. It looks like it’s already dead to me,” Rob said.
                She gently poked the back of his hand with her fork. “Leave me alone, Funny Man. I’m trying to sort something out here.”
                He grabbed her hand and disarmed her. Then held the hand between both of his big paws. “Kate, I don’t need a degree in psychology to figure out why you’d be afraid of losing him.” Rob had been there when the police had come to tell her Ed Huntington had been killed. It was high on his list of the worst moments of his life.
                Kate shook her head. “It’s not just that Eddie died, but how he died. It was so sudden, and so senseless. One minute we were going along, just being ordinary people, doing boring mundane things. The next minute... Hell, Rob, I think I’d be scared silly half the time if Skip were a shoe salesman. Eddie was a tax accountant, for God’s sake. How safe can you get? The only people he had reason to be afraid of were IRS auditors.”
                Rob