Protecting His Heart by Dana Volney

Author:Dana Volney [Dana Volney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Adams Media
Published: 2016-01-04T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Arabella heard footsteps and waited for a second to get her bearings. Light flooded her lids, and she carefully opened her eyes in time to see Felix’s back disappear through the bedroom door. He was fully clothed, and something didn’t feel right. Why hadn’t he woken her up? Maybe he’s going to make breakfast.

She gathered the white sheet to her chest and hips and tiptoed to the door he’d left open only an inch. Peeking through the crack, she saw that Felix was checking his weapons then holstering his handgun at his side, putting another at his ankle, and a knife at his waistline on his lower back. Definitely not a casual walk or breakfast-making behavior. He grabbed his windbreaker, and she hurried, quietly, to her clothes. If he was leaving, she was following.

Last night she’d gone from resignation to depression to lust to gloom. She took a deep breath and blinked a couple of times to wake up. Today was starting off in the distrusting realm.

She watched through the curtains as he fired up his borrowed truck. She scouted the parking lot. There was an old Toyota Corolla that would be fast to hot-wire. As soon as Felix pulled out of his parking spot, she ducked and sprinted through the lot. And, thank God, the car was even unlocked. She kept an eye on Felix waiting to turn left into traffic.

She hunkered down in the driver’s seat, pulled the wiring harness down from the console, stripped the red battery wire with her knife and twisted, did the same to the ignition wire and connected it, then stripped the starter wire and tapped it until the car started. All and all, one of her quickest performances.

She sped out of the lot and hung a tire-screeching left. Don’t draw attention to yourself. She stepped on the gas until she spotted the truck and then kept a comfortable distance. Felix ducked and turned into random streets, probably in case he had a tail, for fifteen minutes before turning into a grocery store parking lot with a sporting goods store next door.

I am losing my damn mind. She’d just tailed Felix picking up breakfast. She hadn’t looked in all the sacks he’d brought in, but it could’ve just been enough for last night. The Toyota sailed into a spot a couple rows over and she leaned back and scooted down in her seat. Her body tensed. She rubbed her shoulders in a small attempt to relieve some pressure. Being on the run for four months had done a number on her already paranoid way of thinking.

She could go up to him and surprise him—then he’d know her completely crazy for sure. Or, and the best choice, she could go back to the apartment, clean up, and wait for him to return.

She put the car into drive and glanced around to pull out of her spot without incident. Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed a black Escalade with tinted windows pull up by Felix.

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