North's Nikki by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781773360898
Publisher: Valley Publishing, LTD
Published: 2018-09-17T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

The hours passed slowly as Nikki worked away on her laptop. She had some of her own business-related work she wanted to tidy up, and then she pulled the information North had asked for. She’d gotten up twice to check on her grandfather, but each time his breathing had been slow and steady, his color normal. He murmured several times as he shifted in bed, as if not sleeping well. But at least he was asleep, and that was way better than the unconscious look she’d seen on his face last night.

She must have lost ten years off her life when she’d seen her grandfather collapsed on the floor like that. She was still angry that these men had attacked him in his own home. North had said she needed to stay behind locked doors. But she had forgotten to check the kitchen door. She got up and walked around to the back, relieved to see it was bolted. She glanced out the window, unable to see much, then checked the front every ten or fifteen minutes to see if the guys were home or if anybody else was approaching the house.

The phone rang. She walked into the hallway and picked up the old relic of a phone that Charles loved. “Hello?”

“Is your grandfather there?” asked the stranger on the other end.

“I don’t know who you are,” she said, her voice hard. “And why you would assume I’m a granddaughter versus any other woman.”

There was an awkward silence on the other end, then the man said, “He wasn’t answering his cell phone or his work lines. I was hoping to reach him on this phone. I meant no insult. I’m a good friend of your grandfather’s. I’m fully aware you are staying with him.”

“And yet, you still haven’t identified who you are,” she said, not giving an inch.

The stranger sighed. “That’s something I can’t do. However, when he wakes up, or when you’re ready to pass on this message, you can tell him that I’m looking for him.”

“How can I tell him that,” she said in exasperation, “if you don’t tell me who you are?”

The man laughed. “That’s all right. He’ll know. Tell him that I called on this phone, and he’ll know.”

She hung up and slowly walked toward her grandfather’s room. She rapped lightly on the door, pulled it open and stuck her head around the corner.

Her grandfather smiled up at her. “Not to worry, child,” he said in a low voice. “I’m feeling fine.”

Her heart lightened with joy at those words, and she entered his room. “I’m so glad to hear that. I’ve checked in on you a couple times. And you always seemed to be sleeping but a little disturbed, like maybe you were having a nightmare or were reliving last night’s events. I didn’t want to interrupt your sleep, but I also didn’t want to let you sleep too long.”

He shifted so he was propped up against the headboard.

She sat down beside him. “You just had a very strange phone call.

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