Protecting Summer by Stoker Susan

Author:Stoker, Susan [Stoker, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2015-03-03T06:00:00+00:00

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Dinner went by quickly. No matter how much Summer tried to ignore the elephant in the room, she couldn’t. Mozart was leaving. He’d done so much for her in the short time he’d been back, it almost felt like it was happening to someone else. Summer wasn’t naïve. She knew Mozart was controlling and her situation was as out of control as it could get. She hoped he’d feel the same way about her when he got back from wherever it was he was going, but she couldn’t be sure. She’d have to play it by ear.

They left the restaurant and made their way back to the motel. Mozart grabbed her hand and led her into room seven without a word. When they were back inside the room he finally dropped her hand and went over the little desk. He tore a piece of paper off the pad of paper there and wrote on it. Then he went over to the phone sitting next to the bed and wrote the phone number listed there on another piece of paper, which he shoved into his pocket.

Mozart came back over to where Summer was standing, and took her hand again. He led her to the end of the bed and they sat down. He sat sideways, as he had only two short nights ago, and kept her hand in his.

“Okay, Sunshine. Here are the numbers I told you about. Tex is my friend in Virginia. I’ve also written down my cell, home, and work number. Ice’s number is here as well. I would’ve given you Fiona and Alabama’s too, but I know you well enough to know it will be a stretch for you to call any of the numbers I’ve given you. Just please, promise me you’ll call me or Tex or Ice if you need anything.”

“I’m not going to need anything, Mozart.”

“You don’t know that. Anything can happen at the drop of a hat.”

“It won’t.”

“Seriously, listen to me. I’m going to tell you something that only my fellow SEALs know. I’m not sure if they’ve even told their women.”

Summer could only nod. He was drop dead serious. She’d never seen Mozart look so anxious and concerned.

“I thought the same way you do once. I was a teenager, living my life. We were happy, we were normal. Then my little sister was kidnapped. She was gone for over two weeks. We had no idea where she was. A couple found her beaten body in the woods. She’d been sexually assaulted and strangled. She didn’t deserve it. We didn’t think anything bad would ever happen either. I know bad things can happen, Summer. I’ve lived through it. Please…for me. Promise, if anything happens you’ll call. If I can’t be in the country to help you, I need to know you’ll reach out. Tex can help you.”

“I promise.” Summer didn’t even pause. It was obvious Mozart needed this from her. She couldn’t imagine how he and his family had made it through something like that, but it explained a lot about him.

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