Gator Bait by Jana DeLeon

Author:Jana DeLeon [DeLeon, Jana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery: Cozy - CIA Assassin - Louisiana
Publisher: Jana DeLeon
Published: 2014-10-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

I awakened with a start and bolted up from my chair, completely unaware of my surroundings and brandishing the magazine like a bat. Then Carter started to chuckle and I remembered I was at the hospital, currently poised to strike an unknown assailant with paper.

“Unless you’re going after a dog with that,” Carter said, “I don’t think it’s going to be a big deterrent.”

I tossed the magazine on the nightstand and took a breath to steady my racing pulse. “I don’t know, the articles might bore someone to death.”

“I can agree with you there. Put me out like a light last night. Worked better than the painkillers.”

I stretched my arms up and rolled my head around. “Apparently, it had the same effect on me. I must have dozed off.”

“If that was dozing, you were doing a mighty fine job of it. And you snore.”

“I do not snore.”

“Like a freight train. The nurse even looked inside once to make sure it wasn’t an earthquake.”

“Now you’re just being mean. Why didn’t you wake me up?”

“It’s not like you had the easiest time of it yesterday. I have a good idea of what it physically took to get me up from the boat. And I bet you didn’t sleep all that well besides, with everything that happened.”

“Hmmm,” I said and nodded. The reality was that Sunday hadn’t even been the most strenuous day I’d had since I’d been in Sinful, and certainly not the most stressful. Compared to my day job, it was a walk in the park. Truth be known, I’d slept like the dead, just not as long as I would have liked. But I couldn’t exactly relay any of those truths to Carter, who thought I’d had a librarian-turned-Wonder-Woman moment.

“Do you always leap up from a dead sleep ready to attack?” he asked.

“I do when I’m in unfamiliar territory, or think there’s an intruder in the room.”

“Or a raccoon in your attic? I’m probably lucky you aren’t armed with more than a magazine.”

I shifted my weight from one leg to the other, ready to change the conversation to things I was more comfortable talking about. Like anything not related to me, especially since I was currently saying a silent prayer of thanks that I’d decided to leave my weapon at home. If I’d jumped up in a ready position with my pistol, that would have been very, very bad. Average civilians did not have weapon response time anywhere near what I did.

“How are you feeling?” I asked.

“Like I got shot and almost drowned,” he said. “Other than that and the fact that I can’t remember a thing since Saturday night, everything’s peachy.”

“At least you don’t snore.”

He laughed. “And I remember Saturday night. The real tragedy would have been forgetting our dinner.”

I felt a blush run up my neck. “It’s only a pleasant memory because I didn’t do the cooking.”

“The cooking was spectacular,” he agreed, “but the company was better.”

He cocked his head and studied me. “You’re actually blushing.”

“Am not.”

“It’s nice…and different, to be around a beautiful woman who isn’t vain.

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