Chapter 11
Having Walker tell someone she was his girlfriend when, up until moments ago, she had been expecting him to walk away once again had Kate feeling like the punchline of some big joke. Here she was, sitting at his desk. Seconds ago she’d been fit to be tied because he had treated her like a common criminal, and now she’d suddenly been upgraded. So how the hell was she supposed to get her head around the fact that Walker Pruett was telling another man, a detective who’d made a beeline straight for her, a fact she hadn’t missed, that she was his girlfriend, that she was no longer someone of no importance but someone who mattered in his life?
She sat back in the chair and crossed one leg over the other, very aware of her bare ass under her dark skirt. She wondered whether Walker re
