Holding Out for a Hero by Kimberly Zant

Author:Kimberly Zant
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: action adventure, cinderella romance, rich man working woman, personal assistant to and action star, one man one woman, spicy sexy humorous romance
Publisher: New Concepts Publishing

Chapter Five

Dolly could see the tension ease from Chance when the group disappeared. He turned to study her for a long moment, his expression carefully devoid of emotion although his eyes were tumultuous with a mixture of things—anger, certainly.

She thought hurt, too, but she wasn’t as sure of that.

“Do you believe her?” he asked tightly.

Dolly stared at him unhappily.

It wasn’t that she believed Liz. She’d thought all of those things Liz had said herself.

He looked away, turned away, and Dolly felt like her heart was breaking. “I know you’re a good man, Frank Mallory.”

Chance halted in his tracks and swiveled around to look at her as if he was seeing her for the first time. He hesitated for a long moment and finally turned and left.

Dolly really just wanted to lie down on her pallet and cry her eyes out, but she took herself to task and moved to the closest tree to help pull herself up and then began a search for a ‘walking stick’. Unfortunately, the forest at that point seemed to be almost entirely pine and although they were the type that had some lower branches, the branches weren’t sturdy enough to hold even part of her weight.

Chance had disappeared by the time she decided to check the wreckage for something to help her get around.

She thought she was going to lose it then, but she knew she couldn’t afford to unless she just wanted to sit down and wait to die. Sniffing back the urge to cry, she searched until she found something that was sturdy enough to hold her weight, but not so heavy she couldn’t drag it around. She found that, in conjunction with her effort to stabilize the injury, the makeshift walking stick made it possible to cover far more ground than she’d managed since the crash.

She managed to find the food staple/fuel they’d been relying on—pinecones—loaded up as many as she could and headed back.

Chance met up with her before she made it back to the shelter. She had a moment to see that he was white faced with fear, to feel a jolt of terror that something horrible was right behind him, and then he almost seemed to run full tilt into her. She bounced back, dropping her load of pinecones, but he caught her tightly with the arms he’d thrown around her.

“I couldn’t find you,” he said in a voice muffled against her jacket. “I thought …. Baby! You scared me half to death!”

He was afraid because he thought something had happened to her, she thought blankly?

And yet—every time he called her baby she had this bizarre sense that he’d confused her with someone else, that what seemed to be happening between them was just some sort of … illusion, something her mind had cooked up because of her crazy crush.

She loved it. It made her feel special to him when he called her that, but she was pretty sure he probably called all females that—not even just the ones he was sleeping with.

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