Lie with Me by Stephanie Tyler

Author:Stephanie Tyler [Tyler, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romantic Suspense, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
Publisher: Dell
Published: 2010-10-25T23:00:00+00:00

It was so quiet. The TV wasn’t working. The lights kept dimming, even though the worst of the storm was over.

And still, Sky knew both of them were used to this, for such different reasons. Cam, with the military training—watching, waiting in semi-darkness for the danger.Or hunting it down, she supposed.

Her danger had once come from a different source. She remembered sitting there in the hospital, watching her own body betray her. Wondering what she’d done wrong. How much longer she could hold out. Even now, she stared down at her inner arms, ran a palm down one of them, remembering IVs and blown veins, black-and-blue marks.

There was still a light scar near her collarbone from the central line. Cam had run his fingers over it the other night—and then he’d kissed it, even when she’d closed her eyes tight and tried to forget how many scars her body held.

Too many for a woman.

She turned from him on the bed, because she’d already revealed way too much, too fast, and this whole thing was crazy.

When he’d asked her earlier about whether or not there had been other threats made to her before this one, she hadn’t wanted to go there, revisit the past. But he had to know, whether or not it applied to the current situation.

It was something she’d never told anyone. Somehow, sharing secrets in the dark seemed safer, even though she knew it wasn’t, that everything could come back to haunt her.

You have to trust someone, Sky.

Instincts, baby girl.

She lay on her side, head on the pillow, facing the window. When the next words came out of her mouth, they surprised even her. “Was there ever anyone special? I mean, could there be?”

“I don’t think it’s possible. Not with my job. Don’t get me wrong, plenty of Delta guys do it. But it’s hard on them, hard on their families.”

“Their wives must get used to being alone. A lot.”

“Yeah.”

“I’m alone a lot too. I used to tell myself that it was by choice.”

“Same here.”

“Are you alone because … because you don’t want to hurt someone the way we just talked about?” she asked finally.

“Maybe. I never really thought about it like that.”

“I think I’m alone because it’s easier. They told me that, even with the transplant, there are no guarantees.”

“There never are, Sky.” He paused, and then, “You said you started writing when you got back.”

She nodded. “It was like, I had everything to lose, and nothing to lose. I could get lost in something else, didn’t worry about machines beeping and nurses and transplant lists.” She paused, aware of how strident she sounded. “I’m not alone when I’m writing, if that makes sense.”

“Yeah, I get that. That’s why you were so upset when you couldn’t write.”

Even though he seemed to understand her, to get her in a way she never thought possible, she still couldn’t bring herself to turn back to him when she asked the next question. “Do you ever see it changing? The alone

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