Bridal Jitters by Jayne Castle

Author:Jayne Castle
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Published: 2010-06-06T04:00:00+00:00

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on her trousers. She saw nothing but a few new wrinkles. She looked up

again. “Sam, you must be exhausted.”

“Not yet. The afterburn is still kicking in. The buzz will last for about an

hour. Then I’m going to have to crash for at least two or three hours. No

way to beat it.”

She nodded. The syndrome was well-known. Ghost-hunters who expended large

amounts of psi energy needed time to recover. Sam studied the corridors that

branched off in different directions behind her. “We need to find a place

where we can hole up for a while. In an hour I’m going to be asleep, like it

or not.”

She glanced around. “Why can’t we just stay here? No one else is going to

come through that waterfall.”

“Probably not,” Sam agreed. “But that’s not what’s got me worried.”

“Well? What is worrying you? Aside from the fact that Drummond just tried to

nail us?”

“It occurs to me that whoever hired Leon Drummond to keep Mac Ewert from

making any progress in this corridor may be working illegally on this side

of the waterfall.”

Virginia widened her eyes as understanding hit her. “Yes, of course. An

illegal excavation project on this side would explain a lot. But if you’re

right, we could run into Drummond’s pals any minute.”

“I’d say that’s a definite risk.” He started toward her. “Come on, we’ve got

to find a place to hide until I can sleep off the afterburn.”

“There are bound to be some chambers or rooms we can duck into for a few

hours,” she said. “All we have to do is pick one that doesn’t look like it’s

been charted yet. Odds are no one will find us during the next few hours.

Heck, I doubt if anyone will even come looking for us. Drummond must think

we’re dead. He’ll no doubt report that we got reckless, 36 Cnarmed

got ourselves fried by that waterfall, and that the firm of Gage & Burch is

out of business.”

“True. He can’t have any way of knowing that we survived. All the same, I

don’t want to take any more chances than necessary.” Sam looked at her. “We

haven’t got a lot of time.”

The prowling urgency in him worried her. She opened her mouth to say

something reassuring, but the words got caught in her throat. He was only a

short distance away now. For the first time since they had come through the

waterfall, she got a close look at his eyes. What she saw there stilled her

breath for a few seconds. Hot, intense, brilliant; sexual desire, elemental

and dangerously compelling, blazed in his eyes. His gaze literally glittered

with what, in any other circumstances, she might have mistaken for the first

evidence that he felt a degree of genuine passion for her. Adeline’s

question came back to her in an uncomfortable rush. “So, is it true what

they say about ghost-hunters? Are they really amazing in bed after they’ve

zapped a ghost? I’ve heard the sex is unbelievable right after a burn.”

What she saw in Sam now, she realized, was no more than the aftereffects of

a massive expenditure of ghost-hunter psi talent. Chemically speaking, it

was the result of a

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