DONOVAN: A Standalone Romance (Gray Wolf Security) Read Online Free PDF

thrilled.
    The doctor looked around the room, his eyes lingering on Ash, Veronica, and me. Then he touched Kate’s hand and said, “Take care.” Then he was gone.
    And now it was time for the fun to begin.

Chapter 5
     
    Donovan
    Getting Kate out of the hospital was an ordeal all of its own. Ash bowed out—lucky guy!—and Daniel pulled Veronica out into the hallway. Kate stared at me for a long few minutes, then she groaned as she slowly sat up.
    “Are you going to leave so that I can get dressed?”
    “You can dress in the bathroom.”
    “You aren’t afraid I’ll sneak out the window?”
    “We’re on the tenth floor. If you want to go out the window, I say more power to you.”
    She shot me a dirty look just as the door opened and the nurse walked in.
    “I need to remove your IV,” she said, all business as she tugged on a pair of rubber gloves. “If you’ll just lie back and try to relax.”
    A flash of fear crossed Kate’s face as she did as she was told, laying back against the pillow again and turning her face to the window. I leaned against the wall and watched as the nurse easily and professionally slid the long needle out of the back of Kate’s hand and covered the wound with a Band-Aid.
    “Done,” she said.
    Kate kept her face averted, holding her hand against her chest as the nurse disposed of the needle and removed her gloves. She glanced at me, a flirty smile slipping over her thin lips. I nodded, but then my attention moved back to Kate.
    “Still not good with blood?” I asked after I heard the door close.
    Kate stiffened. “Don’t act like you know anything about me.”
    “Then I’m supposed to forget I haven’t known you since I was seven?”
    “You might have known me once upon a time, but you don’t know me anymore.”
    She threw her legs over the side of the bed, still cradling her hand, and stood. She hesitated, as if she wasn’t sure where she was going next.
    “I can ask Veronica to come help you,” I offered.
    That earned me another hard glare. “I’d rather have you help me than her.”
    “She’s…interesting.”
    “She must be really good in bed since that’s the only reason I can imagine why Daddy would marry a woman like her.”
    “How long have they been married?”
    “Six months. And I’ll be surprised if it lasts another six.”
    I had to agree with her. I’d only known her a few minutes, but the way Daniel looked at Veronica didn’t seem to bode well for a long marriage.
    Kate crossed to the tall, plastic wardrobe stuck in a corner of the room and pulled out her clothes, a pencil skirt and simple, white blouse. She glanced back at me, a little bit of a blush on her cheeks.
    “Stay there.”
    “That’s my job.”
    She rolled her eyes, then disappeared into the bathroom.
    I pulled out my cell phone and called the head of the prep team, Carson, to check on their progress at her house. He assured me they were finished and on their way out. The cameras were up and working, routed to David’s computers back at the compound. David had a program that monitored the cameras and motion detectors set up by Carson’s team. If anything were to happen at the house, David’s program would alert me instantly and set off an alarm to which David could respond. It was a system that had saved more than a few of my targets since it was implemented a year ago. David was constantly tweaking it, so it was more and more efficient each time we used it.
    Thank God for computer nerds.
    She came out of the bathroom a minute later, so beautiful that I couldn’t take my eyes off of her for a moment. She’d always been beautiful. Tall and slender, with curves that were subtle, yet incredibly feminine; she was the object of so many teenage dreams that Joshua and I used to joke about the gun his father should have bought. But again, most of those boys were burned pretty significantly by Kate herself whenever they tried to get too close. Yet, there was something different about