Contract Pending by Jenna Bennett

Author:Jenna Bennett [Bennett, Jenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Suspense, Romance, Mystery, Southern, Tennessee, nashville, interracial, real estate, chicklit
Publisher: Jenna Bennett
Published: 2011-09-09T00:36:54+00:00

Chapter 12

His voice was a tight whisper in my ear. “Stay down.”

I nodded, my teeth chattering. I wasn’t going anywhere. I recognize a gunshot when I hear one, and this one had come uncomfortably close. I’d also recognized the tinkling of the glass in the window next to the front door where the bullet had pushed through. I swear I’d even heard it zoom by, although that was probably just my imagination.

He added, “Are you hit?”

I shook my head. “You?”

“No.” He lifted his head. Personally, I couldn’t hear anything but the rushing of blood in my ears and the frantic pounding of my heart, but after a second, he rolled off me and got to his feet.

“Rafe...!” I sat up and reached for him, panicked. What if the shooter—the Hispanic man?—was right outside the window, and tried again?

“He’s gone.” He glanced down at me. I could barely make out the gleam of his eyes in the dark. He must be able to see better than I could, though, because after a second, I could see the gleam of his teeth, too, as he took in the sight of me sitting there, with my skirt twisted high on my thighs and my dress down to my waist. He could probably even see the flood of color that rose in my cheeks. I hiked the bodice over my breasts and reached up to fasten the straps.

“Shame to do that,” Rafe remarked.

“I don’t want the police to find me on the floor with my dress half off.”

“In this neighborhood, we’ll prob’ly have to call’em ourselves if we want’em. Although seeing you like that would make Truman’s day. It’s made mine.”

I smiled, a little shakily. Patrol Officer George Truman is no more than twenty two, and he blushes if I look at him for too long. “Someone else will call them, don’t you think?”

“We’ll see.” He moved toward the front door, silently, staying close to the wall. I held my breath, but nothing happened. In the distance, we could hear a car starting up and driving away.

“There he goes,” Rafe said, not bothering to lower his voice. “Shit.”

“At least he’s gone.”

He glanced at me as I came up next to him. “Yeah, but I didn’t get a look at him. I wanted to see if it was the guy you told me about.”

“That’s why the porch light was on.” I felt like a slow child trailing behind. “You expected this. That’s why you sent Mrs. Jenkins away. And that’s why you were upset when I showed up.”

He shrugged. But he didn’t deny it.

“Why didn’t you tell me to leave?”

“Before or after you told me you wanted to sleep with me, darlin’?” He shook his head. “I figured you were safer in here than out there. But then I got distracted.”

“God, I’m sorry.”

“Yeah, I really wish none of that woulda happened, too.” The tone was definitely sarcastic. “I should be apologizing to you. You coulda been hit. And it woulda been my fault.”

“He wasn’t aiming for me.

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