Hearts In Peril (Billionaire Romance) by Kaylee Baldwin

Author:Kaylee Baldwin [Baldwin, Kaylee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Christian Stories, Faith Based, Inspirational Reads, Love Inspired, Bachelor, Single Woman, Hearts Desire, Clean & Wholesome, Life-Changes, Second Chance Reunion, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Lifetime Love, Romantic Schemes, Love-Family & Forever, Action & Adventure, Small Town & Rural Area, Beautiful & Feisty
Publisher: Sweetly Us Press
Published: 2018-08-13T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

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Riley awoke to puffs of warm air blowing against her face. Her head felt like it was going to split in two. It took a moment for her vision to focus in the dim room. A little light shone in from the outside window—part moonlight, and part artificial lights. Dean’s face was inches from hers, and he held her hand in his. He rested his head on his good arm, his breathing calm and deep. Relief washed through her at his presence. She’d imagined many different scenarios in the time after he was taken from her—and most of them ended with Dean’s death.

She studied his long eyelashes, nestled within his black, swollen eye. Her heart ached for the pain he must have gone through—was still going through. The moonlight cast his skin in a bluish tone, probably aided by his paleness. The edge of his jaw and cheek rested in the crook of his elbow. He winced in his sleep, and she gave in to the urge to run her hand along his whiskered cheek, finding comfort in having him so close. He relaxed with a sigh. His eyes fluttered open, and they stared at each other for a moment.

“Hi,” he whispered.

“I didn’t mean to wake you.” She pulled her hand from his face to tuck it under her own, but didn’t move away from where she lay beside him.

“I’m glad you did.” Even in the darkness, the intensity of his stare burned through her. “How are you feeling?”

“I should be asking you that question.” She gathered all of her energy and reluctantly sat up. The room spun. But she needed to check Dean’s wound to make sure it wasn’t any worse. Although she had no idea what she could do if it was.

Dean took her hand and tugged her back down beside him.

“Dean,” she protested.

“Humor me,” he said.

She hesitated, but lay back beside him, another inch closer this time. “I’m okay.”

“What did they do to you?”

She didn’t know exactly. The last thing she remembered was the scarred man coming into the room and injecting her with a syringe. “They must have given me some sort of sedative.”

“You’ve been out for hours,” he said in a husky voice. He reached out and cupped her cheek, not removing his hand.

“The effects of what they gave me are wearing off.” Her mind was feeling less cloudy by the minute. But the sedative, combined with whatever they’d put in her tea, was doing a number on her head and memory. Her memories of walking with Dean and Rodel were clear, but once she woke up in the truck, everything got a little fuzzier around the edges.

The ground was hard beneath her shoulder and hip, but there was an intimacy between them she didn’t want to break.

“Have you seen Rodel?” Dean asked.

“He wasn’t in the truck with us.”

She’d come to trust Rodel, and the thought that he might have betrayed them stabbed her in the head, much like her headache. She reached up to rub her temples, but Dean brushed her hand away.

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