Hiding Hannah (Darkwater Military Romance Thrillers Book 8) by Annabelle Winters

Author:Annabelle Winters [Winters, Annabelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Winterswept
Published: 2023-02-21T16:00:00+00:00

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Hannah couldn’t believe she’d said it out loud.

It pretty much confirmed she was crazy. At the very least it confirmed she had the emotional maturity of a kitten. After all, what kind of psycho chick talks about love after one day and one date?

Ohmygod, it wasn’t a date, she reminded herself angrily. Sure, being in that movie theater and sitting in the back row and making out had made it feel like a date, Hannah thought.

But feelings weren’t real.

Only facts were real.

That’s why she was a failed PhD candidate, a melodramatic basket case kicking up a tantrum about wanting to be independent and strong while at the same time be protected and loved.

Loved?

She really was losing it. One orgasm that probably meant nothing to Hogan had turned her inside out, made her feel things that weren’t justified by the situation.

After all, love didn’t happen in a day.

Didn’t happen like this.

It didn’t, right?

Now Hannah thought back to that conversation with John Benson. She thought about Dad and his ideas about fate, his theories about destiny, his belief that intentions and emotions affected events, drew some people together, pulled others apart.

And what was intention if not a feeling?

What was emotion if not something that could only be felt?

Which meant feelings were as real as facts, were they not?

All right, fine, but that didn’t solve the real problem, did it, thought Hannah.

The problem that she kept wanting to call this feeling love.

“I can say it,” came Hogan’s voice from behind her, really close behind her, like he’d been close behind her all this while as she stormed down the hallway like a cartoon character with smoke rising from her head even though she wasn’t angry but embarrassed, wasn’t indignant but defensive, wasn’t hurt so much as just messed up by what was happening and how fast it had happened and how intense it was and . . . and . . . and now she turned and stopped suddenly when she processed what he’d just said.

“What?” she said, cocking her head like there was water in her ear and she needed to get it out before acknowledging what he was saying. Or not saying. “What did you say?”

Hogan stopped just in time so his muscled bulk wouldn’t bowl her over like the last pin standing. He looked down into her eyes, and Hannah thought she saw a flicker of something behind those green eyes.

Something hot and hungry.

Something raw and raging.

Something deadly and dangerous.

It lingered back there, simmering behind his intense gaze.

Then he blinked and it was gone.

“I can say it. But I also can’t,” he said. “This isn’t the time, Hannah. There’ll be time for all of that later.”

“All of what later?” she asked even though she knew she was pathetically fishing for him to say something, anything to make her believe that she wasn’t crazy, that what she’d felt with him was real.

Real and reciprocated.

“Look, Hannah,” he said evenly, like he’d made his decision and it was firm and final. “In Special

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