Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense April 2018--Box Set 2 of 2 by Margaret Daley

Author:Margaret Daley
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488090066
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Kara came back to her senses as Sam leaped up from where they were seated on the floor. Their time together kept dredging up old, painful memories, and yet at the same time, her feelings for him had never been buried very far down, even after all these years. No one had ever replaced him, and more than once she’d wondered if God was punishing her for pushing him away—if she’d missed her one chance for true love, and whether her cruel rejection of him had ruined everything forever.

But of course she knew better than that. Her head knew it, anyway. Her heart had different opinions, but her heart had also allowed him to get too close—to brush his lips against hers and remind her of what she’d lost. Her heart couldn’t be trusted.

And neither could their enemies, which was probably why Sam had rushed away to the other side of the room and taken up sentinel by one of the windows.

She sighed and bowed her head—and noticed a metal ring on the floor. She reached over, pulled on it and gasped to realize it was connected to the wooden flooring. She pulled a little harder and an entire panel lifted up, revealing a dark hole in the middle of the floor. Cool, musty air wafted up from inside.

“Uh, Sam? I think I found the cellar.”

He withdrew from the window and peered into the darkness. “If there are any supplies here, that’s where they’ll be. I’ll go down.” He sat and slid into the hole, gripping the floor as he lowered himself inside. “I’m touching the bottom,” he said after a few tense seconds. “Hang tight. I’m going to look around.”

Kara held her breath as Sam shuffled in the pitch-black space, flinching at the sounds of limbs colliding with metal. In the meantime, she got to work removing the memory card from the camera and securing it in the waterproof case she carried in a zippered pocket of her cargo pants. She’d just zipped the pocket shut when Sam’s head popped back up and he placed several metal cans on the floor.

“Water,” he said, checking the label. “Well, that’s good. Glad it’s not soda. I’m going to bring some up for us and for the horses.”

It didn’t take long for him to carry up enough cans for everyone, find a couple of old buckets in the kitchenette and empty most of the water inside. He declined her offer of assistance, brought the water out to the horses and then returned inside shortly thereafter without a word.

Kara sighed. It hadn’t escaped her that he’d avoided eye contact and seemed unwilling to exchange more than a few words. She needed to learn how to hold her tongue—wasn’t that what had gotten the two of them into this mess in the first place? Every time she’d had a chance to make things better, her big mouth had gotten the better of her. Insulting Sam when they were young. Speaking up about seeing artifacts in the ground before she’d taken better stock of the situation.

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