Free Jade (Rare Gems Series) by Kathi S. Barton

told him to go to hell when Blair spoke again. “You look in the mirror in the past hour? Your hair is standing on end and you have a glazed look in your eye that’s fucking spooky.”
    Quentin took a deep breath. “If I clean up, will they let me see Angie? I’m about ready to tear the door off the hinges if they don’t let me see her.”
    “I can see that. But you go in there now and they’ll sho ot you in the head. They’re all a little on edge and are just waiting to kill something. Jade took that away from them, and they need something to hurt.”
    “She could have been killed doing something stupid like that.” Blair nodded as he followed him to the bathroom. He might have been a little uncomfortable with that, but he noticed that the police were all standing around with their hands on their guns, and decided that if he had another freak attack like he’d had earlier, Quentin wanted Blair there to calm him down.
    “The police are saying that your daughter is a hero. They’re keeping her name under wraps because of her being a minor , but she did just what you told her to do.” Quentin splashed cold water on his face as Blair continued. “She told the first officer that she’d been told by you that it’s bad to have anyone touch them like little Alexis had told her that the teacher had done. You’re a smart man for that.”
    “She was in a daycare center when one of the aides was arrested for molesting one of the children. It was all over the paper for weeks and she wasn’t able to go back there. I had to tell her something, and decided that knowing the truth of what happened might save her one of these days.” Quentin looked at Blair in the mirror as he told him the rest. “That’s one of the reasons we came here. I didn’t want her to go through what one of the other kids had gone through when it leaked out what her name was. It was horrible for the little girl.”
    “I bet.” Quentin started for the door and stopped when Blair stood in front of it. “There’s something else you should know. I don’t know how you feel about it, but here you go. That girlfriend of yours is here. Sapphire just told me. She said she’s hanging around right outside this door to see you.”
    Quentin took a step back from it and laughed when Blair did. “I’m going to have to have a talk with her I guess. She has to know that I’m no longer interested in a relationship with her. Jade told me that…she explained to me that Debra might be Roger’s mate.”
    “I would say she’s right. But she’s here now , and so are the police. As I’d said earlier, they’re a might on edge and could hurt either one of you. I don’t care much for the bitch out there, but Jade might get a tad pissy with me if you get hurt. What do you want to do?” Quentin wanted to see his daughter, and then he wanted to see Jade. He looked at Blair.
    “I’m going to have to face her again sooner or later. I just wish she’d listened to me when I told her the other day she should go back to Texas. I was going to have a talk with her there.” Blair nodded and moved from in front of the door. “I don’t suppose I can convince you to shift to a big wolf and scare her off, can I? Just until I can work this out with the police and all.”
    “Sorry , buddy, but for as much as I like you, I’m not going to stand in front of you when a woman could be pissed. Not only could that woman hurt me, but Sapphire would tear her hair out one follicle at a time if she hurt her poor husband.” Blair grinned. “Might be fun to watch, but not today.”
    When he opened the door after calling Blair a traitor, he saw her before she saw him. She looked like she’d just stepped out of a salon, not a hair out of place and her makeup looked like she’d spent the past hour making sure she looked perfect. Not at all the way Jade had looked when he’d last seen her.
    She’d been in the kitchen with her grandmother arguing about something. Her ponytail