No Ordinary Love by Angela Weaver

Author:Angela Weaver
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-58571-526-8
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2009-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

“What the…?” Xian woke startled and got out of the bed. Without reaching to put on his robe over his pajamas, he left his bedroom and traced the faint whimpering sounds to the guest room: Alex. He opened the door and saw her tossing and turning on the bed. Crossing the room, he laid his hand on her shoulder with the intention of waking her but before he could blink, he found himself staring up at the ceiling from the floor.

Hurriedly placing her weapon back underneath the pillow, Alex reached for the lamp. “Xian, are you all right?”

“I’m okay.” He took her outstretched hand and maneuvered himself to sit on the edge of the bed.

“Nightmare?” he asked.

Alex slowly nodded before edging over to sit at his side.

“Do you have them often?”

“No,” she answered truthfully. Time had helped distance her from the memories. She used to wake many nights bathed in a cold sweat but the dreams had faded as she’d become more and more adjusted to her new life as a teacher. Tonight the nightmare had come back strong and intense. Maybe it was the stress of Brian’s death, the break-in, or her feelings for Chou and Xian, but the image of the Somali boy’s face still lay in her mind.

“Do you want to talk about it?” he softly inquired.

Alex shook her head. “Not really.” It hadn’t been a nightmare, it had been a memory, and her body shook with the scream that she hadn’t been able to voice.

“It might help. For the longest time after my wife died, I couldn’t sleep. I would find myself waking up in the middle of the night talking, speaking to Shay-Lin as though she were lying there beside me.”

Unexpectedly Alex felt tears well behind her eyes. She had spoken about the boy’s death only to Rafé during the mission de-briefing. She had seen the sympathy in his eyes that day, but there had been no time to cry. She’d had to pack and re-join the team.

“I…” She stopped and then continued. “It isn’t grief that gives me nightmares, Xian. It’s guilt.”

“I don’t understand.”

“You couldn’t.” Needing to move away, Alex stood and went to the window. She didn’t want to see his face when she made her confession. Clenching her fingers, she went back, back to the first time she’d laid eyes on Tag. He’d been watching her from the other side of the metal cage the Philippine police had called a jail cell.

She remembered what he’d said. “Listen to me good. From the moment you walk out this cell, you belong to the United States Army, Ms. Thompson. There’s no going back, no calling your daddy. From here on out every move you take, every breath you take, everything you hear and say is for Delta Force. You are mine to train, mine to teach.”

She blinked her eyes and began. “I was one of our military’s elite, Xian. They sent me into situations that no man could have come back from alive. I

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