Deidre Knight - Midnight Warriors 03 by Parallel Seduction

Author:Parallel Seduction
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Chapter Fifteen

The bumpy ride became suddenly smooth, the snowmobile zigzagging beneath them, certainly a far cry from the wild cross-country journey they’d been on for the past hour. At least now they weren’t catching air and had reached a much more solid surface. Hope held tight to Jake, trying to decide whether her glucose levels were going low—she was feeling light-headed and strange—or if it was really only the weirdness of the past few days finally catching up to her. Maybe she needed a snack, a few of the Smarties she had in her cooler bag strapped to the back of the sled, anything to even out her levels.

All at once they slowed, skidding across what seemed to be a smooth area. Perhaps it was a frozen lake; she couldn’t be sure. Every direction she looked she saw nothing but white snow, piercing sunlight, her usual dark floaters, and blue sky. A big mass of confusion, basically, and it irritated the crap out of her.

They came to a stop, the motor going dead; she’d already figured out there wasn’t a halfway point on these snowmobiles when it came to on or off. That thought reminded her of the one man she loved—who it so happened wasn’t the man she’d followed into this crazy predicament. If only she could pinpoint how the two of them linked together in her mind, then she would understand her actions. But so far, no dice.

“We’re here.” Jake’s naturally throaty voice was even raspier after hours’ worth of exposure to wind and cold. “The chamber is up that cliff.”

Hope followed where he seemed to be pointing, immediately wincing. “That’s way the hell up there, isn’t it?”

Jake made a low, almost growling sound, but didn’t answer.

“How do I interpret that? Yes, it’s far up there? No, it’s right beside me? I don’t know how to translate”—she growled in mimicry—”that.”

He stalked away, then circled back close, no longer wearing his helmet. She wondered if he’d jerked it off in some kind of fit of frustration or emotion.

“What that means is that I should never—not ever in a million years—have brought you out here. I’m a fool, but I blame you.”

She swung one leg over the bench and placed both feet on the running board. “Hey, hey, no fair to blame me. I’m in the dark here—literally and figuratively. I am just along for the ride.”

In a heartbeat Jake swooped around, blocking out the sun and sky. His mouth was a breath away from hers. “I mean, Hope, that you have never given me free will. There’s never been any way I could move, not in any direction, that isn’t you. Don’t you get it? Don’t you understand how much you mean to me?” His voice cracked, and just as suddenly as he’d closed in upon her, he walked away.

She rose to her feet, following. “Then tell me. I don’t know, because you haven’t explained a thing! I know that I belong with Scott Dillon—I know how much I… feel for him.

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