Edge of the Heat, the Complete Series: Edge of the Heat Firefighter Romance by Lisa Ladew

Author:Lisa Ladew
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Heat Publishing LLC
Published: 2016-01-30T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 37

As Jerry drove the tiny hatchback down the highway from Las Vegas to California, his anxiety level seemed to increase with every passing mile. When they first started driving, he told himself that it would get better, that the road would lull him into a relaxed state, but it seemed just the opposite was happening.

He thought back to that morning. Sara had insisted they buy him a car. She was driving the reinforced open cargo truck, and he was behind her on the 5 hour drive. She had said that she didn’t want him in the truck with her for most of the drive to the Senator’s house outside of Pacific Palisades in case they got pulled over. She said if she got pulled over with the truck full of guns she was going to jail for a very long time, no matter what her story was. He believed that much. She said she didn’t want him to have to go too and that’s why he needed to drive separately from her. He was scared that was a bald-faced lie.

Since the moment they woke up that morning and made desperate love, he had sensed the truth in her eyes, in her every touch and word. She was going to ditch him again. Why, he didn’t know. When, he didn’t know. But he knew it was going to happen, and the thought terrified him. His heart ached with the thought of never touching her again, never watching her bite her lip to keep from laughing, never hearing her voice call his name, or never feeling the silken weight of her hair in his hands. If she left him he knew he would be a broken, useless shell. When she left him, he corrected himself.

Was she going to slip away from him somewhere on the highway between here and there? Or was she going to wait until after the culmination of all their planning after the Senator’s house? Would she say goodbye first? Or just slip away? Would she finally tell him she loved him? He knew she did. He could hear it in her voice, see it in her eyes, and feel it in her every touch. But she was keeping those three little words from him. Was she keeping them from herself too?

He had seen her plan to ditch him first thing that morning. But he had also seen something else. A forlorn, unspoken plea that he not confront her with it. I can't take it, her eyes said. And he loved her. So he didn’t confront her. But he would. He swore to himself a hundred times on that long drive that if they made it out of this alive, he would confront her. He would do anything to have a fighting chance to keep her. Anything.

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