Midnight Shadows by Ella Grace

Author:Ella Grace [Grace, Ella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ella Grace
Published: 2015-03-09T00:00:00+00:00

“Here. You didn’t eat much when we came in.”

Ian twisted around from the window he’d been staring through for the past couple of hours and took the turkey sandwich Samantha held out to him. Instead of telling her that any food he tried to eat stuck in his throat, he just gave her a nod of thanks.

Returning his gaze to the window, he said quietly, “I can’t help but worry about her.”

“She’s going to be okay. Bri always lands on her feet.”

He didn’t bother to dispute her. It was true—Sabrina did have an amazing ability to extricate herself from sticky situations. But there were things her sisters didn’t know. Cases she’d been involved with that had come close to ending her life. What he had told her their last morning together was the stuff of his nightmares. One of these days her luck wouldn’t hold, he wasn’t going to be there to save her, and that bullet she’d been dodging would finally hit its target. The thought of the light dimming in her bright beautiful eyes tore at his gut.

No. Just no. That would not happen on his watch. He’d damn well make sure of it.

After doing a long distance observation and perimeter search, the team had returned to the house, grabbed some food, and reviewed their plan. Now all they could do was wait to hear from Marsh.

“Did she take wild chances when she was a kid, too?”

“A few.” Samantha grimaced. “After our parents’ deaths, we all changed in some way. Savvy buried herself in books, I buried myself in every school activity or social event I could. And Bri…” She swallowed hard.

“What? How did Sabrina change?”

“She shut down completely the first few days after it happened. Couldn’t talk…wouldn’t talk. Not to anyone. Not Savvy, not me. It was like something had died inside her.”

Her mouth tilted in a sad little smile. “She had always been the most mischievous of us. Had the wildest ideas and schemes but they were always done in fun, kind of lighthearted. You know?”

Yes he did know. He’d seen occasional glimpses of that lightheartedness. And then, as if she remembered something, a shadow would come over her, like a cloud passing over the sun, and the façade would be back in place.

“After their deaths, she buried her true self beneath a veneer of toughness…an attitude…” The struggle to explain something she didn’t understand apparent in her expression. “I don’t know. It’s like she started acting as if she didn’t give a damn. And the thing is, I think it’s because she cared so damn much. Even though it almost destroyed Savvy and me, I think Mama and Daddy’s deaths affected Bri even more. Like it killed a part of her, too.

“We thought, or at least we’d hoped, that when she met Tyler, we’d get the old Bri back. For a while we did. Not the lighthearted Bri we’d known, but some of the darkness seemed to have been lifted from her. Then, well, you know what happened.

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