Road to Danger (Danger Incorporated Book 8) by Olivia Jaymes

Author:Olivia Jaymes [Jaymes, Olivia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, military
Publisher: Blonde Ambition Press
Published: 2018-06-11T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

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Bathed in a cold sweat, Mallory awoke with a start, her eyes popping open and a gasp on her lips. She’d been dreaming and it wasn’t a sweet one. She was standing in the middle of her home and there were faces in all of the windows watching her. She kept yelling at them to go away but they didn’t. When she tried to walk to the door to shoo them gone, her feet were stuck to the floor and she couldn’t move. She was frozen like a statue being studied by strangers. Chilling and disturbing.

Leaning back against the pillows, she took several breaths to slow her racing pulse and bring her ragged breathing back to normal. She stared at the ceiling for a long time reminding herself that she was safe here at the Anderson ranch. No one was going to get into this house, especially with Tiger’s sensitive hearing. According to Carter, the canine would be barking his head off if even a squirrel ventured near the home.

Mallory glanced at the clock on the bedside table and grimaced. One in the morning and it didn’t look like she was going back to sleep anytime soon. The few hours she’d slept had been just enough to keep her from falling back into dreamland easily. If she was going to have nightmares like that, she didn’t want to go back to sleep anyway. Being awake was far better.

I wonder if Carter is having bad dreams, too?

No, you think that if you’re awake he should be, too.

If they hadn’t argued the other night, she might be sharing Carter’s bed right now. Then he could have soothed her back to sleep when she woke. But they had argued, and she was lying here in the guest room. Alone. She didn’t like it much. The bed was certainly comfortable and the blankets warm. It was a lovely room but she couldn’t stop thinking about him sleeping just at the end of the hall. Did he snore? Did he wear pajamas? Did he maybe talk in his sleep? He probably looked really innocent when he slept but she knew that he had a bit of the devil in him.

You could crawl in with him.

She could and Carter might welcome her with open arms. If he was a heavy sleeper, he might not even realize she’d joined him until morning.

Of course, if she were to crawl into bed with Carter she would basically be saying “yes” to sex. The fact that he hadn’t even tried to get her to share his bed tonight had left her a little miffed, if she were honest. She hadn’t said no because he hadn’t asked. If he had, she would have said yes.

He could have changed his mind about them. It was possible, although the way he was acting it didn’t seem probable. More likely, he was being a gentleman, which was sweet. And unneeded.

They’d grown close incredibly quickly, far faster than under normal circumstances. If she’d learned anything from watching a man die in her arms it was that life is short and there are no guarantees.

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