Enigma by Moira Rogers

Author:Moira Rogers [Rogers, Moira]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal Romance
ISBN: 9781609287726
Google: jTyOAgAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00HSOHSEC
Goodreads: 12152446
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Published: 2014-05-13T06:00:00+00:00

Patrick was used to sleeping lightly in strange places and assessing his surroundings before he opened his eyes, a fact that made swimming out of a dead sleep in an unfamiliar bed twice as disorienting.

But not as disorienting as Anna’s stiff, unmoving presence next to him. “Anna?”

“It’s early,” she whispered. “Go back to sleep.”

Memories of the previous night provided plenty of excuses for the tension in her body, but Patrick didn’t think he’d have slept so soundly with Anna on high alert next to him. “Is something wrong?”

“No.” She hesitated. “I don’t know.”

He shifted onto his side and winced as the muscles in his back protested. Anna was staring at the ceiling, looking as uneasy as he felt. “Tell me.”

For a long time, she kept staring, but finally, she rolled to face him. “Dreams. All night long, whenever I drifted off, I dreamed that Oscar Ochoa was standing over me, screaming.”

A chill slithered down his spine. “You saw his ghost. That’s enough to give anyone nightmares.”

“Maybe. And maybe this job’s getting to me.”

Patrick smoothed a strand of her hair back from her forehead. “At least there’s a bright side. If you’re dreaming about Oscar, then Michelle broke the spell in time. We have a chance to finish this job.”

Anna stared at him, her eyes wide and unblinking. “It won’t bring him back. So there’s still a kid out there with no dad.”

There always would be, whether their fathers died or simply deserted them. Julio and his siblings were proof enough of that. And Patrick’s own older half-brother, the one who’d vanished as surely as his wolf father had.

Even Anna had ended up abandoned, and her parents had no excuse beyond selfish weakness. “Sometimes life just sucks,” he whispered. “And then you and me? We kill the people who make it suck. And it sucks a little less.”

“Does it?” She sat up. “I mean, I’m not saying it’s better to do nothing, but does it ever really change?”

He wanted to lie to her—but if killing bad guys could change the world, Ben might still be alive. “I don’t know.”

“Neither do I.”

“Does that make you want to stop?”

“No.” She slipped her hand into his. “But sometimes it makes me so tired.”

Patrick tugged her back down, and it was impossible not to savor the way she came willingly, pressing herself to his side like she belonged there.

Just like the night Ben had died.

His emotions snarled like a mishandled ball of yarn. The only thing that broke through Anna’s defenses was his pain. Vulnerability, weakness—they hit her right in the instincts, and she was as helpless against them as any alpha shifter was. She was probably half-drunk on the need to protect and soothe him.

All well and good, except for the part where it would get them both killed.

And yet…it was tempting. So tempting to let that hint of vulnerability linger, even when the weakness had faded. He wasn’t a wolf, with his poor manly ego tied up in meaningless posturing. It wouldn’t take much of a lie to keep Anna soft and sweet against him.

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