Eton's Escape by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781773363240
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2021-01-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Sammy heard the explosion from inside her bedroom. Standing up, she raced outside to the balcony and turned to find out whatever had caused it. In the distance, toward the condo development where Joe worked, she saw what she thought was fire. She quickly phoned the number that had texted her, and Garret answered. “Is he okay?” she asked.

“Not as good as he should be,” Garret said, his voice calm and reassuring. “His car was blown up.”

She gasped in horror.

“Unfortunately, along with the guy he found. The guy is dead, but Eton is okay.”

“Jesus Christ,” she whispered.

“I know. It was another close one.”

“Another close one?” she said in an ominous tone of voice.

“Yeah,” he said clearly. “We are doing this for a reason. We have people out there who are after us, and we don’t know why.”

“That’s terrible,” she said. “You’ll spend your whole lives looking over your shoulders.”

“Which is why Eton generally doesn’t get into relationships,” he said gently. “Why we’re always afraid of somebody close to us getting hurt.”

“But then,” she thought about that and said, “it’s just really sad because he’s alone his whole life. And you.”

“And that’s the reason why it’s hard to get committed because he goes back and forth, considering his options, because he cares, but he can’t afford to care.”

“What about when this is over?”

“Well, that’s the hope,” he said. “We just aren’t there yet.”

“Well, find the bastard,” she said, “because I have no intention of walking away.”

Garret burst out laughing. “Well, I hear you,” he said, “and I’m glad too because Eton deserves to have somebody who cares that much.”

“Well, I do care. I don’t know how much, and I sure as hell didn’t need the explosion to happen to remind me. I was just thinking about the changes I need to make in my world as it is.”

“Why is that?”

“Because of my father,” she said. “It won’t be too much longer for him.”

“I’m sorry,” he replied. “You’re lucky you have this time with him.”

“That’s what I was just thinking. Go help Eton,” she said and hung up. She sat here, almost frozen, as she tried to figure out what she was supposed to do. Just so many truths were coming home to her, and she didn’t know quite how to take it. She didn’t really have enough interactions to know who Eton really was, but it was horrible that he would be alone because people were targeting him and his team.

She wanted the whole story from him but knew it would require a little more on her part to get it. He was a good man, and she just hoped that he wasn’t hurt from any of this. It all sucked. But she would do what she could to make his life a little bit easier, the same as she was for her father. She just wasn’t sure how. She went downstairs to the kitchen to make a cup of tea, but, when her phone rang a few minutes later, she snatched it up to see Eton was calling.

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