Dangerous Desire by Annie Seaton

Author:Annie Seaton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, romance series, Entangled Suspense, Dangerous Desire
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (Suspense)
Published: 2013-08-08T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

On the second morning she woke in Jake’s house, Gracie eyes flew open. Her heart was thudding, and the sheets were wrapped around her legs. She sat up quickly and looked around, listening for the sound that had woken her. All was quiet and she stepped out of bed and crossed to the window, standing to the side looking out across the lawn. Fingers of sea mist hovered above the horizon and the golden sky promised a spectacular sunrise. All was still in the predawn silence.

She shook her head to clear the fragments of her dream. A man’s body covered in barnacles, his face hidden from her. But his leg had floated up in her dream, floated up from beneath a boat and the pink, oval-shaped scar had shimmered beneath the dark water. Rubbing her eyes with her fingers to dispel the image, she headed for the shower.

It was a dream. Just a dream.

In the luxurious bathroom, she switched on the shower and smiled. It was big enough for two people with a huge jet on each side of the tiled space. Turing the water to hot, Gracie stood for a long time under the soothing heat, letting the water wash away the tension in her shoulders.

She dressed in the uniform provided by the crewing company, with the Midas insignia sewn in gold thread on the royal blue of the singlet. The white shorts were a tight fit, and she stretched around to look at them in the full-length mirror on the wardrobe door. They just covered her butt and showed more bare skin than the red dress had the other night. Pulling her damp hair into a high ponytail, she walked back into the bedroom and dug in her bag for a pair of white sneakers and socks.

Her stomach was in knots and the thought of food didn’t tempt her at all.

Maybe just a coffee.

She glanced at her watch as she set off down the hall. It wasn’t even six and she had two hours to fill before she had to report to the boat. Pausing in the doorway of Jake’s study, her attention was caught by the faint light of the screensaver on one of his computers. Guilt ran through her as she stepped into the room and stood in front of it. She ignored it, telling herself she wouldn’t look at any of his files. Checking her e-mail and browsing the web for a while would pass the time quickly and keep her occupied.

Sitting in the chair he’d occupied the other night, she moved the mouse and the screensaver disappeared and showed the desktop. She leaned back in the chair and looked with interest at the photograph on the screen.

A much younger, thinner Jake looked back at her. His face was wreathed in a smile and his arm was draped loosely over the shoulder of a pretty, young woman. Gracie wondered who she was and whether she was still around, although Jake looked about ten years younger in the photograph.

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