Her SEALed Fate by Lori Ryan

Author:Lori Ryan [Ryan, Lori]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B013TQ6C6W
Publisher: Cara Shannon
Published: 2015-09-13T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

“Billy!”

Sam watched with interest as Ernie called the dog the following morning. Ernie had slept on one couch while Chad and Zach had taken turns on the other, swapping out halfway through the night. Logan hadn’t come upstairs.

“I’m wondering if Billy can get Logan to come up,” Ernie said quietly to Sam. “Either way, the dog needs to go out to the bathroom and eat something.”

“Billy!” Ernie called out to the dog again. Chad came down from the third floor, where he’d been taking his turn in the shower. Zach was in the living room with the eggs, sausage, and toast Sam had made for him. She piled a plate up for Ernie and one for Chad, while trying not to look too expectantly at the stairs.

The sound of Logan’s voice came up the stairs, but it sounded like he was arguing with Billy, maybe trying to send him up alone. Could a dog, that hadn’t been trained to do so, dig in its heels and refuse to come up without his companion? Sam didn’t even know if it was possible to train a dog to do that, but it had seemed like Billy saw something in Logan—a need, maybe? He’d seemed to respond to it last night, and Sam held her breath as she listened to the one-sided argument with the dog coming from downstairs.

Apparently, Billy won out because Logan and the dog came up the stairs, heading toward the living room rather than the kitchen. Sam tried not to stare as Logan opened the sliding doors and let Billy outside to relieve himself, but she couldn’t help it. She wanted to drink him in. To somehow assess how he was, what holes there were in his armor and how she might get through them. She wanted to see him back on the mend the way he had been only last week. Because right now, he seemed lost to her. So lost and far away, despite their proximity.

She knew he wasn’t here voluntarily. She knew he was doing all he could to keep the walls up between them. That he’d leave as soon as they stopped the threat to her. And the thought of that crushed her. She didn’t know how he could believe there was anything wrong with him, anything wrong with what he’d done.

When Logan shut the door after Billy came back in the house, Sam spun and turned back to the kitchen. She could hear his steps coming closer, so she put a plate of food together for him and poured a cup of coffee. He nodded and gave a small grunt when she passed them over to him. Nobody said much as Logan began shoveling food into his mouth and Ernie poured food into a bowl for Billy.

“Sam,” said Zach quietly, handing her his iPad. “It’s hit the newspapers.”

Sam took the tablet from him and swallowed hard when her eyes scanned the photos of her wounds on the screen in front of her. She had known they’d be printed.

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