Duke's Redemption: The Samson Boys: Book 1 by Stephanie Renee

Author:Stephanie Renee [Renee, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-02-15T16:00:00+00:00

Heat smacks me dead in the face. I take a deep breath, but the air is so thick it’s almost stagnant. It’s inescapable. The gear we’re all wearing doesn’t help matters.

We’ve been ordered to clear a building since we got word that the target we’re looking for could potentially be inside.

I signal to my team to keep moving forward down the quiet street. Typically, quiet would be a good thing, but when it’s the middle of the day in the town square, quiet is scary.

Quiet means danger.

We walk further, but I give the signal to stop when a woman appears out of one of the buildings. She’s crying. The Southern gentleman in me feels the urge to check and see if she’s okay. But I’ve been in a war zone long enough to know that nothing is ever what it seems.

Unfortunately, Dixon missed my signal and continues toward the woman.

I call his name, but he continues on.

A knot forms in my gut, somehow knowing this isn’t going to end well. I slowly take a few cautious steps toward him while silently instructing everyone else to stay back.

My heart thumps in my chest as my eyes dart from Dixon to the woman.

“Dixon!” I call. “Stand down!”

But he keeps walking toward the woman as if being pulled by some invisible force.

As we both get closer, I notice something under the woman’s jacket.

Holy shit.

It’s a bomb.

She’s a suicide bomber.

My feet take off at a full-blown sprint in an attempt to grab Dixon and pull him out of there.

“Bomb!” I yell.

Dixon turns at the sound of my voice.

But the moment he turns to face me, it’s not Dixon.

It’s Avery.

What the fuck?

My legs move as fast as possible. I reach out my hand for her, but just as soon as I’m about to grab her…

Boom.

I sit straight up in bed, drenched in sweat as my chest heaves. My heart feels like it may explode out of my chest.

Not only am I having nightmares without Avery next to me, but now she’s playing a starring role in them?

I try to gain my composure, but I just can’t seem to calm down. I know it was just a dream, and I know that Avery is fine, but there’s a nagging voice inside my head trying to convince me that something is wrong.

“What am I doing?” I say out loud to the empty trailer. “You finally find a girl worth having and you push her away, you dumb son-of-a-bitch.”

Honestly, I don’t know what’s wrong with me. All Avery wanted to do earlier was be there for me, and I was a total dick to her. And now, I’m sitting alone once again—having the nightmares once again.

Fuck this.

I fly out of bed, ready to try to fix my mistakes and hoping to God it isn’t too late.

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