Running Away by Jen Andrews

Author:Jen Andrews [Andrews, Jen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Just Say Yes, Book 4
Published: 2015-08-22T04:00:00+00:00

The alarm on my cell went off at five thirty so I could get in a run with Jeremy before I had to leave for work. My eight-to-five shift this week was going to work out well for us, especially with Reese getting into town.

A few minutes after my cell alarm had gone off, the most god-awful sound blared from across the hallway in Jeremy’s room. Well, technically the guest room, since I was still using his. The noise echoed throughout the entire house. Can he not hear it?

Did he leave on his run without me and forget to shut off his alarm? If he had, I was going to kick his ass because running together was now my favorite part of the morning.

Holy crap. That horrid racket needs to stop.

I padded across the hallway, and flipped on his light. He was still sound asleep. I shut off the offending noise.

“Wake up, Sleeping Beauty.” I shook his shoulder but he gave no indication he was waking up. I pulled his covers back and shook him again . . . nothing.

“Jeremy, wake up!”

I shook him harder and he still didn’t budge. Thinking something was wrong with him, I rolled him onto his back, calling out his name again.

And then I went in to nurse mode.

With my fingers on his neck, I checked that he had a pulse and his chest rose and fell as he breathed. His color was good, there was no outward appearance of injury, and his skin was cool when I pressed the back of my hand to his forehead. I shook him again harder, and he finally groaned and stretched as if he were waking up the way he usually did.

“Jeremy, are you alright?” I asked, my voice trembling from the scare he’d given me.

“What’s wrong?” he asked sleepily without even opening his eyes.

Seriously? Did he sleep like this every night?

“Didn’t you hear your alarm going off? I heard it across the hallway. You scared me because you wouldn’t wake up.” To get my point across, I shoved his shoulder.

“Jesus, Red, is this how you’re going to wake me up every morning?”

I tried to stand, but he yanked me down onto the bed and pulled the sheet up over us. “Just ten more minutes, please.”

I giggled at his roughness and snuggled in close to his warm body. “You scared the heck out of me, Jeremy.” My heart was still pounding in my chest.

“I was sleeping, how could I have possibly scared you?”

“Your alarm was blaring and you wouldn’t wake up. I even took your pulse,” I said.

He laughed. “You really took my pulse?”

“God, you’re deaf and you sleep like the dead! Yes, I took your freaking pulse because you wouldn’t wake up,” I muttered against his neck.

“I’m sorry, Nurse Teagan. I didn’t mean to scare you. You should know, though, I do sleep like the dead, I always have. Once I fall asleep, I’m out cold. My dad is the same way. It takes several minutes for me to hear my alarm after it goes off, so that’s why I set it loud as hell.

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