Lainey (Dreamcatchers Romantic Suspense Series Book 4) by Jamie Garrett

Author:Jamie Garrett [Garrett, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wild Owl Press
Published: 2016-10-14T18:30:00+00:00

Lainey looked out the window as Aaron drove his car around the latest curve in the road and up into the hills. His was far better suited to the drive than her car was, and so she’d quickly accepted when he’d offered to drive them both. Her thoughts were swirling with too much to keep her eyes on the road anyway. She hadn’t sensed anything before the man had turned on her last night, not a flicker to suggest he was about to attack. Then there was Josh—he felt everything and nothing all at once. Only once or twice had she been close enough, either physically or otherwise, to see beneath the blinding aura that covered him nearly completely.

Then came Aaron. Aaron—who had been in love with her for years and she’d never noticed. She’d had her gift her entire life, but if the last few days had taught her anything, it was that she could no longer trust it. Lainey withheld a sound of disgust at herself. It would only make Aaron ask her what she was thinking. She’d been kidding herself all these years when she’d thought she could divine people’s intentions. All she could see was an aura. Maybe she could understand their outward, simple emotions—maybe. Happiness, embarrassment, impatience, but anything deeper? They were just colors, and she’d treated them as if she were seeing inside their souls. Lainey’s jaw tightened. She wouldn’t do that again.

Her world had been small for years, working at the same juice bar, most of her friendships casual and with gym attendees, sometimes the occasional other customer. Her life had shifted some when Payton arrived on the gym’s doorstep, only the shift was so subtle Lainey hadn’t noticed it at the time. It had been building, though, slowly, only to accelerate the past few days into madness that had her driving to an illegal range to learn how to shoot a gun, how to defend herself—really, how to kill someone—with Aaron. The world had suddenly become a dangerous place. She’d never had her guard up, never assumed any stranger was going to be trouble. She couldn’t afford to do that anymore.

Her mind wandered back to something Aaron had said once, trying to convince her to try out a class. If it came down to her life or that of someone else’s, she couldn’t hesitate, not for a second—they wouldn’t. She was no pushover, but Lainey preferred to nod and smile than to say what she was really thinking. She felt emotions as strongly as she saw them, and avoided negativity. Better to brush off degrading remarks or spiteful conversations than to influence someone’s aura and watch it churn gray. But it had turned out to be a dangerous outlook, one that had left her unprepared. She wasn’t going to be the passive little girl hiding in the corner anymore. She’d seen Payton’s strength and she wanted it. Lainey was leaving that girl behind, and becoming a woman who held her head high, who protected herself.

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