Josh's Fake Fiancee (Military Men Book 5) by Shelley Munro

Author:Shelley Munro [Munro, Shelley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romantic suspense, contemporary romance
Publisher: Munro Press
Published: 2019-11-04T18:30:00+00:00

11 – Not Scared Enough

She wasn’t scared enough. Hadn’t experienced the same terror as he had. The pain. The aching loss.

It was harder to get to her now. People everywhere. Damn bodyguards, although he’d managed to shoot the boyfriend. The fiancé. That must have caused a few tears. She was a hard bitch. Made out she was soft and that he was the bully.

She’d started this train ride.

He intended to end it.

There had to be a way to peel back her layers of security, make her nervous until she faltered. Made a mistake.

He paced through the empty house, glad to be alone for a while instead of cozying up with his lover.

While he couldn’t see a way of getting to her, he could still niggle. Behave like that little Jack Russell that lived next door. Bark and harry. Snap at her heels. Get her to start looking over her shoulder again.

The radio broadcast in the background caught his attention. He hated the damn thing and tuned it out, but his lover liked to keep up with the play, harbored an interest in politics.

“…and in the latest poll results, Ashley Townsend has taken the lead for the first time, surging ahead of the incumbent National party. Her brand of honesty and her stance on bullying plus her other social policies have struck a note with the voting public. It will be interesting to see what the results are in the next poll.

“And in other news, the teachers’ union is warning of strike action if their demands are ignored…”

He cursed under his breath. How could she be ahead in the polls? His social media posts had taken off. People had commented on them, shared them. The fuckin’ things had gone viral in some cases. Yet, somehow, she’d still managed to swing the public in her favor.

Well.

He strode through the empty house in another fast circuit. He itched to break something, to grab a knife and slam it into her soft flesh. Instead, he stomped into his bedroom, his hand pressing to his temple in an attempt to will away the aching throb in his head. He spotted the bag of soft toys meant for the local Hospice charity store after their cleanup. He grabbed the bag and heaved it at the bed, desperate for a physical release.

Stuffed bears, a lone doll, a woolen lamb spewed from the plastic carrier bag.

At the end of his control, he grabbed the nearest stuffed animal and wrenched off its head. The act took energy. A surprising amount. The soft fabric ripped, and he ended up with a dog’s head in one hand and the stuffing-filled body in the other.

A dog.

He stared at the pink tongue that flopped from the toy’s open mouth, his eyes filling with furious tears.

It wasn’t right.

This wasn’t right.

Ashley Townsend needed to suffer as he’d suffered. She shouldn’t escape punishment.

He refused to let her.

Determined, he retrieved the plastic bag and shoved the discarded toys back into their temporary home. He’d deliver the bag to the charity store as he’d promised.

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