Saved by Angel Payne

Author:Angel Payne
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781947222328
Publisher: Waterhouse Press

Chapter Twelve

Sage sighed heavily as she stood in the kitchen, watching him from the wide window over the sink. Garrett paced the lawn, side patio, and back of the condo with careful steps and a vigilant gaze. All he needed was a brain bucket and an M16 and she’d swear he was out on patrol. The strain didn’t leave his body even as he sat at one of the chairs around the fire pit to strip off his T-shirt and get out of his boots. Every rope of muscle in his torso was still wound in tension.

None of it came as a surprise. Or a difference. He’d reinstated his mental smokescreen the second they’d climbed in the van with the guys. Tait and Kell had led the general chatter, adding their embellishments about what their own first jumps were like, as well as their most harrowing adventures since then. Sage was glad some of their stories pushed believability, since she’d needed the distraction from the mysterious silence wrapped around the man who’d just brought her such ecstasy. Garrett’s restraint got no better during their drive home, when he feigned interest in the entertainment-news update on the radio. Since when had Hollywood’s latest hook-ups been so crucial to a man who couldn’t give two shits beyond his aunt and uncle back home, as well as the extended family he had here in Seattle?

Either an alien had taken over her man, or the bastard was hiding something from her. If that something has to do with this new energy between them, she had a right to know about it. She’d burn through his whole damn forest to do it.

Let’s do this, Smokey the Bear.

She poured a couple of glasses of water as he came back inside. “Hell yeah,” he murmured when she offered him the drink. “That’s good. Thanks, sugar.”

She watched him guzzle the liquid and gleaned a shot of courage from the moment of silence. There hadn’t been too many like this, where he’d poked through the smoke to let her glimpse the brash, wild mustang of a man who’d captured her heart two summers ago.

She had to keep fighting for that man. To keep fighting for them.

The mantra compelled her forward, next to him. As she expected, Garrett stiffened. She didn’t back off, lifting a hand and resting it against his chest, above the V formed by his dog tags.

He didn’t retreat.

That was a good sign, right?

Sage slid her touch toward his neck.

He grabbed her wrist with the speed of a cobra.

“Garrett—”

“Sage—”

“You’re not going to firebomb me out this time.” Though he swung away, she hooked a hand into the crook of his elbow and dug in, at least as much as she could against his coiled bicep. “I’m not going to let you. Damn it, won’t you even look at me?”

With slow resignation, he swiveled completely around. He hitched his grip backward, palms against the counter. He raised his head, though his gaze only lifted as far as her nose.

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