Chapter 66

“Mija!” Then she frowned. “You need a shower. And some way to cover the love bite on your neck.”

Instinctively, Kata raised her hands to cover herself. Hell, Hunter had a propensity to leave behind his mark when he made love to her.

And she’d never have another mark of his possession. More misery pressed down on her, and she choked back fresh tears. This was about her mother now. Her own heartbreak could wait. God knew, she’d have a lifetime of it to deal with it.

She pasted on a plastic smile. “How are you feeling today? You look better.”

“I feel better. I am at peace for the first time in years. You can thank Hunter for that.”

Kata sent her mother a puzzled stare. “Because he took you away from Gordon?”

“And he urged me to talk to his father. Caleb and I are fine now. We will be good friends, I think. He is a good man. They both are.”

Good friends? “Yesterday, you couldn’t stand the overbearing man.”

“Hunter pointed that out to him.