Code Black (Paranormal Crimes Division Book 1) by Tina Moss

Author:Tina Moss [Moss, Tina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781516345205
Publisher: City Owl Press
Published: 2015-09-28T18:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Helipad of Vanguard Tower, Calgary, Alberta

Sera clamped her hands over her ears. The chopper’s blades cut through the rough afternoon winds. Gray clouds rolled above, threatening rain. She ran head down for the safety of the building’s rooftop entrance. Once inside, she rubbed her hands over her arms. The new red sweater and black leather jacket provided much needed warmth against the frigid Alberta climate, but came at a high price. She sighed, recalling this morning’s cold shoulder from Talon as he’d given her the clothes. After the earth-shattering evening they’d shared making love three times and sleeping in each other’s arms, she hadn’t prepared her head—or her heart—for the sting of his dismissal.

When the sun had risen that morning, Sera stretched in bed. The soreness in her muscles had done nothing to deter her good mood. She’d patted the pillow next to her thinking up a witty greeting for him. Her hand met empty space and cotton sheets. She called out for him, checked all the bedrooms upstairs, and tried to shrug off his absence as she headed for the shower. The hot water coated her from head to toe, easing the blissful ache in her body. When a knock sounded at the bathroom door, she jumped, banging her elbow against the glass door’s metal bar.

“Sera, you in there?” His deep baritone voice sent her senses tingling and a renewed heat rushing through her blood.

“Yes, want to join me?” she said, trying for seductive though it came off more like a squeak.

He cursed, too low for her to make out the exact word, but the effect was crystal. “It’s better if I stay out here.” He cracked the door open mere inches. His arm alone darted into the bathroom to leave a pile of clothes on the counter. “We need to talk about last night.”

The statement sent ice into her veins despite the shower’s steamy heat. She’d dried off fast, dressed in the new clothes he’d procured for her amongst the safe house’s supplies, and met him in the hall—the other rooms held memories he apparently wanted to forget. After about ten minutes of his bland speech filled with words like mistake and emotionally unavailable, she no longer worried about setting him on fire. As anger burned her worse than any flame, she’d let him have a piece of her mind, then set about using the best defense mechanism she could muster—ignoring him.

The long walk back to the makeshift airfield, the hours in the small turbo plane, the switch to the helicopter, and the ride in the chopper had been filled with strained silence. Now, as they rode the elevator down the seventy stories of Vanguard Tower and prepared to ambush her father at his office, she found the rift between them unbearable.

“So,” she said a minuscule sound after hours of disuse. She cleared her throat, opting for small talk over the emotional turmoil this morning brought. Not that she didn’t have some more choice words for him, but it would have to wait until after she dealt with her father.

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