Deadly Hunter by Rachel Lee - Conard County: The Next Generation 19 - Deadly Hunter

Author:Rachel Lee - Conard County: The Next Generation 19 - Deadly Hunter [Lee, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-02-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Long before dawn, the hunter returned to his mountain aerie. He would be ready if they came again, and he’d thought of a way to separate them. Taking down two was not in his plan, and he was sure he could fix that.

Humming, he drove into the mountains and began his hike. Parking a few miles away from his base was the most minimal of precautions, and he’d taken more careful ones than that. When he left, no one would even be able to guess that he’d spent so much time in that cave.

When he left, he was going to feel ever so much better, too. So he continued to hum as he hiked.

* * *

Allison woke in the morning feeling like hell. For all she’d been worn out the night before, she hadn’t found sleep easily. All the things she had learned about herself insisted on roiling around in her mind, and desire for Jerrod wasn’t very far away. She’d engaged in an internal battle, and every time she’d thought sleep was right around the corner, an adrenaline rush would hit her with anxiety as a thought surfaced, or a feeling drove her mind in the wrong direction.

Then, too, her dreams had been plagued. Not by fear, but by passion. She’d awakened so many times in a state of aching arousal that even as she sat up in the morning she felt astonished. Jerrod caused her to have the most unabashedly erotic dreams.

The shame of it was, she thought with sardonic self-amusement, that all that arousal hadn’t been enough to assuage her. It had just ratcheted everything up until she wondered if her own body was going to turn into her worst enemy.

He had kissed her, she told herself. He had held her a few times. Then he had backed away, and she wasn’t at all sure he had done so because he was in pain.

He might say he wanted her, but she was beginning to wonder. She’d all but offered herself on a silver platter last night, and then he had retreated.

So maybe there was something wrong with her?

She heard him in the kitchen. Impossible not to notice when she had lived alone so long. She hoped the couch hadn’t been hard on his back. She headed for the bathroom, wearing her fleece robe, and could tell by the humidity that he’d showered this morning.

It was the only way she could tell. He had cleaned up so well after himself that she wondered if the room sparkled more than usual. Fresh towels even hung neatly on the rack. Well, she thought, there was something to be said for military training.

By the time she dressed and headed for the kitchen, good smells filled the air. Apparently he’d found the stash of bacon she kept in the freezer. The aroma made her mouth water and she figured she’d work off the excess fat in a little while by hiking around a cold mountainside.

“Good morning,” he said. He stood at the stove, cooking the bacon.

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