Dangerous by Lindsay McKenna

Author:Lindsay McKenna [McKenna, Lindsay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Military, Romance, fiction
Publisher: Blue Turtle Publishing
Published: 2018-05-13T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

A groan brought Dan out of the darkness he was floating in. His senses were muddled, and he felt like separate pieces of himself were floating around within him, disconnected to one another. Beneath his closed eyes, he saw blips of people’s faces, heard sounds, and smelled the salt of the Red Sea. He felt like a scuba diver who had gone too deep and was slowly ascending toward the bright light of the surface far above him. There was a dull ache on his left side. It was the discomfort that first snagged his shredded consciousness and forced him to try and focus.

The next thing that got his attention was a warm, soft hand resting on his right forearm. He stopped struggling to see where he was at and what was going on. Dan instinctively knew something was very wrong with him, but he couldn’t piece it together. That hand, steadying and stabilizing, is what he honed in on. It was a woman’s hand, and as soon as he realized that, a flash of Sloan’s face congealed out of the darkness. He groaned again, but this time, it was out of relief because he recognized her. His heart swelled and burst open. She was here. Beside him. Relief sizzled through his awakening body and mind.

There were voices around him now, soft and low, but he couldn’t make out who it was because his brain was incapable of interpreting what they were saying.

Dan didn’t know how long he lingered in that gray state of semi-consciousness, but at some point, the voices left.

Sloan stood next to Dan’s hospital bed and smiled as he barely opened his eyes. The blue color in them was cloudy, telling her that he was still in a heavily drugged state. “Welcome back,” she whispered, leaning forward, and placing a kiss on his wrinkling brow. To her surprise, she felt his fingers barely move as he tried to squeeze her hand in response. “You’re safe, Dan,” she told him, keeping her words simple and spoken slowly so he could grasp what she was saying. Opening his eyes, he stared up at her.

“Are you in pain, Dan?”

He barely managed to form the word no with his lips, but no sound came out. Her voice wobbled. “You’re going to live, Dan. You’re here with me.”

How badly he wanted to lift his arms and draw them around Sloan’s shoulders. Her brown hair was loose, shining in the light coming through the window. Dan closed his eyes again, feeling exhausted from battling to try and speak or move. Then, the darkness closed in on him once more.

*

“How’s he doing?” Tal asked as Sloan quietly shut the door to Dan’s hospital room. She knew Tal was going to drop by the hospital after work. Tal was dressed in a black wool pantsuit with an orange silk blouse beneath it that brought out her shoulder-length black hair and green eyes. She held a thick briefcase in her left hand.

“He’s emerging from the drug-induced coma,” she offered.

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