A Risk Worth Taking by Laura Landon

Author:Laura Landon [Landon, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Historical, General
ISBN: 9781477807408
Google: dHRLnQEACAAJ
Amazon: 1477807403
Barnesnoble: 1477807403
Publisher: Amazon Pub
Published: 2013-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

If there was ever a time in his life that he wanted a drink, it was now.

Griff bolted from the chair where he’d sat for the past eight hours and paced the room. The drapes were open and the light from the full, bright moon shone through the windowpanes onto the bed where she lay.

He wasn’t sure he could sit here without a drink in his hand hour after bloody hour without knowing if she would live or not, without knowing if she would ever wake. He wanted just one drink so he could make it through this. Then he would need a second drink, and a third, and even that would not guarantee he could forget the terrified expression on her face when she saw the carriage careening toward her. A drink would not help him forget her frightened scream, or the sight of her fragile body being thrown through the air and landing on the cobblestones. There wasn’t enough liquor in the whole of England to make him forget the terror that raged through him.

Just stay with me. I’ll help you.

The soft, whispered words that had been his comfort since he’d stopped drinking echoed in his mind. He held her hand as if he could make those words come true for her.

Except for the few minutes it had taken him to wash and change out of his bloodstained clothes, he’d refused to leave her bedside. Patience had sent up a tray of food earlier, but he’d hardly touched it. Even Adam eventually gave up trying to bully him into eating or getting some rest.

Jack Hawkins’s words raced through his head. I don’t think you’re the person anyone wants to kill. I think the driver ran down the person he intended to hit.

Griff lifted her delicate hand in his. That couldn’t be true. Who would want Anne dead? Who could possibly want to harm her?

His mind went back to Jack Hawkins. What if Griff had judged him wrong? What if the report was true, and Hawkins wanted revenge because Griff had been responsible for his brother’s death? What if Hawkins had been the driver of the carriage and Anne had gotten in the way? His made-up story about the driver wanting to hit Anne would certainly add confusion about what Griff thought he saw, and steer the attention away from Hawkins.

“Anne,” he whispered again, gently brushing back a wisp of hair that had fallen across her forehead. “Ah, Annie.”

The pressure in his chest grew painfully tight and he looked at her gentle features. No. There was no way anyone could want to hurt her. Just like her brother, she didn’t have an enemy in the world. It was him. He was the one the killer wanted. As he’d been the one the killer had been after when Freddie had been shot.

Griff knew it would not end until either he or the killer was dead. And anyone who got in the way would get hurt. He never should have put her in such danger.

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