Brotherhood Protectors: Chasing Katie (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Heather Long

Author:Heather Long [Long, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2018-01-08T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 4

The storm abated sometime around midnight. Katie had long since fallen asleep on the sofa. The dark shadows beneath her eyes and the pallor of her skin worried him, but he didn’t see any signs of other injuries. Fear and stress could debilitate a body. Despite trying to set her at ease, the day dragged as the weather continued to lash the house. At one point, he’d gone to the phone to call Hank back to suggest they wait the storm out, but there was no dial tone.

When Katie asked him if he wanted to watch a movie, he’d let her pick whatever one she wanted. It gave her something to do, and she’d fallen asleep ten minutes into the romantic comedy or whatever it was. He’d barely noticed it, instead he turned over all the information he’d learned since arriving in Eagle Rock.

After putting his truck in the garage, he’d used the phone installed out there to call Mickey. Katie trusted her friend Hank and his people—and while he couldn’t fault her faith in another SEAL, Angel trusted his guys. Mickey worked with Flint and Cannon on their special project. While he didn’t have all the particulars, he trusted them and their contacts. Mickey promised to reach out to Jacko, and they would work up the background on her boyfriend.

Ex-boyfriend. She’d been touchy on the subject, not that he could fault her. Angel made sure to keep the fire fed. A part of him argued, he should take her up to wherever her room was or at least wake her up so she could get in her own bed. The rest of him didn’t want her out of his sight. They might be snowed in a remote ranch house in the middle of nowhere Montana, but his gut warned him to keep her close.

He trusted his gut.

He’d barely left the room to even make coffee, but he could go forty-eight hours before he’d need to at doze. And he could go 96 with light naps.

They’d need all that to get back to New York, as long as the weather didn’t hold them hostage. So aware of the low-level roar of the wind, he’d noticed the moment it ceased. Staring out the windows, he traced what buildings he could make out in the near absolute dark—the faintest shadow of what might be a barn, and the line of fences. He hadn’t noticed any animals when he’d driven in, and she hadn’t mentioned going to tend any…

“Angel?” The whisper of her voice pulled his attention.

“I’m still here,” he assured her. “Go back to sleep.”

“What about you?”

“Everything’s fine, sleep. You’re tired.” Glancing over his shoulder, he studied her. She’d risen on one elbow, and her dark hair tousled over her face. The firelight played over her, casting her half in shadow and the rest in the soft orange gold of the flames. “Are you comfortable there?” If she wasn’t, he could adjust his watch to be near her room or in it once she was asleep again.

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