SLEEPER (Crossfire Series) by Gennita Low

Author:Gennita Low [Low, Gennita]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: GLOW WORLD
Published: 2011-11-30T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

Lily looked up. The faint sound of the cell phone’s beeps called at her. She turned back to the open drawer, methodically lifting anything that could hide a few thin passports.

The phone stopped, then immediately started again. She gritted her teeth, then walked quickly back into the living room, where she’d left the stupid thing. She looked at it as it merrily trilled at her. It was a compact, weighing a few ounces, yet it’d felt like a hundred-pound albatross when she was holding it.

It’s just Reed. Answer it. She couldn’t. She hadn’t been affected by wild mood swings since she’d stopped using one, so there must be some sort of connection. She hadn’t been paranoid when she’d felt she was being followed. Someone had tried to kill her last night, so that was proof that she wasn’t going mental.

The ringing stopped. Lily remained tense for a minute, expecting it to start again, to go through the whole process of arguing with herself. It stayed quiet.

She sighed. Never had she felt so cut off from the world. She’d thought she was a pretty fearless person, but this new…phobia…was destroying her freedom. She couldn’t check on the girls, for heaven’s sake. Couldn’t make the usual calls to get hold of her contacts. Couldn’t make bank transfers or any number of chores that an ordinary person could do.

Sooner or later, she would have to face the demons, but she dared not chance it while the girls still depended on her. Once she’d gotten them to safety, she would sit down and deal with what was left of her life.

Lily snorted in self-disgust as she turned and walked back to the room where she’d been conducting a careful search. That shouldn’t take too much time. There weren’t that many options in her future. She couldn’t live a normal life in the future if she couldn’t pick up a phone.

“Not that I know what a normal life is!” she said out loud. She looked at the expensive furniture and equipment in the “media” room, as she called it, and waved her arm dramatically to declare, “This isn’t normal.”

In the space of twenty-four hours, she’d danced the tango, been chased by a car, been shot at, jumped off a two-story bridge and almost drowned in icy water, been stripped naked after she’d passed out and been bathed by a stranger—a sexy, equally naked stranger—and sort of imprisoned in some kind of luxury suite. Not to mention—Lily could feel the wave of heat warming her cheeks—being treated as if she were a kept woman. She didn’t even know the man! She touched her face. What had possessed her to let him do all those things to her?

Kept woman. He might as well have imprisoned her, even though he’d given her a cell phone and the codes to the elevator. She couldn’t call anyone for help. She couldn’t walk out of here without any clothes. Well, she could—but without even a vehicle, how long would she last in the cold weather? She laughed at the ludicrous image.

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