Escape to Morning by Susan May Warren

Author:Susan May Warren
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
ISBN: 9781414332680
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2011-01-11T16:00:00+00:00

Will nearly argued with her. Dani was tired and needed some rest. But the fact that she’d leaned into his hand, squeezing back a little and looking at him with some sort of silent request … well, the feeling of longing that he’d been fighting went to full boil in his chest.

Friends. Full stop. Just friends.

Dani had looked pretty good in the duds she had on—even if they were grimy. Yet, when she emerged from her motel room less than thirty minutes later, her hair still wet, wearing jeans, a clean sweatshirt, and a down vest, he had to admit that it was worth the wait.

Just friends.

She slid into the truck, smelling of shampoo. Fresh. Sweet. “Thanks for waiting.”

“Thanks for your help.” Just friends.

He hadn’t quite figured out whom he would get to help him haul the vehicles home. Sarah’s suggestion that he jog out there didn’t feel so far from the truth. Maybe hitchhike. It wasn’t like he really had any friends at the paper to ask. Not the kind who would do him a favor at least. He thought of Sally Appleton at border control. He wouldn’t count her in his circle of friends.

Okay, he’d admit that his circle looked pretty meager. Dani, however, had managed to stick one foot in, as if testing the water. It was all he could do not to lunge at it like a largemouth bass, despite the warnings screaming in his head. He didn’t have time to make friends or anything else. He had a mission—find one very lost girl and intercept one terrorist attack.

Hopefully, however, his only mission for today was to keep Dani’s mind off trekking back into the woods and to sit tight while HQ checked out a report of a trucker who’d picked up a teenage girl thirty miles south of Moose Bend. But if said report panned out, he’d be heading south by tomorrow.

So much for being Dani’s friend.

He tried not to let that thought dampen the fact that he had about eight clear hours to spend with Dani before he turned in his reporter’s badge and became yet another person.

“Are you hungry?” he asked as he pulled out of the lot.

“I think I could eat a moose.”

He glanced at her, and she wore a soft smile. It did dangerous things to his pulse, especially when she added a hint of warmth in those hazel eyes. “Great. Okay. Let me buy you a venison sausage omelette from Nancy’s. I promise it’ll be better than our last meal together.”

She buckled her seat belt. “Promise no digging for information? No hint of sniffing out a headline or tunneling for SAR facts?”

“Yeah, I promise.” His job as a reporter was the last thing on his mind at the moment, but her hatred of journalists still bothered him, like an itch longing to be scratched. What was that about, and how could they get past it?

The one logical answer—honesty—made him flinch, and he put it out of his mind as they drove to Nancy’s.

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