Stay With Me by Cynthia Eden

Author:Cynthia Eden [Eden, Cynthia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Hocus Pocus Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2017-12-12T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

She was terrified.

Fear rolled off Shelly in waves. Her heart was beating far too fast, her body was trembling and…

“Breathe, baby,” John whispered.

Her breath left her in a hard rush.

His hand rose, and she took a step back. Her retreat pierced John right in the heart. “I was just giving your phone back to you.” His voice was quiet, without emotion. Mostly because he had put a stranglehold on his emotions. Rage and fear pounded through him—rage at the man named Devin who’d just wrecked the bond John had tried so hard to form with Shelly. And fear—gnawing, twisting fear because John was afraid that he wouldn’t be able to convince Shelly to trust him again. “Go ahead,” he urged when she made no move to take the phone. “Call the sheriff. Get him out here.”

Her gaze dropped to the phone. No spots of color stained her cheeks. In fact, she was far too pale. Her trembling fingers reached for the phone.

He expected her to immediately call the sheriff. Instead, her hand fisted around the phone and her eyes—fearful but also angry, so angry—rose to his. “Have you been playing me all along?” He’d never heard that tone in her voice before. The cut of rage. The rasp of betrayal.

John shook his head. “I wouldn’t—”

“I must have seemed so stupid to you.” She took another step back. “Buying that whole story about you not having a memory. About you waking up in some kind of lab.”

He wanted to take her into his arms. To hold her tight. “It’s not a story. It’s the truth.”

“Is it?” She shook her head. “I’ve known Devin for over five years. He was my brother’s best friend even before they became business partners. Hell, that’s why they became partners. Charles wanted someone he could trust to help him run the company after my dad died. And Devin just told me that you were a threat.”

“I’m not.”

She retreated another step. His gaze slid over her shoulder and toward the front door of the cabin. Was she planning to run out? He couldn’t just let her run away. It wasn’t safe out there. The shooter—the attacker who’d been stalking her—he could be lying in wait. “Call the sheriff,” John urged her.

“Do you remember your past? And tell me the truth!”

His lips pressed together. His past…

Waking up strapped to an exam table. Men and women in white lab coats, whispering. Whispers that he’d heard so clearly.

“He’s back!”

“Another successful experiment.”

“Will he be as strong as the others?”

“John!” Shelly cried out. He blinked. For a moment, he’d slipped away in his mind. “Talk to me! Tell me the truth.”

“I only remember pieces of my past. Flashes.” He kept his hands loose at his sides, kept his body relaxed. He didn’t want her to see him as a threat. “Flashes of you.”

Her chin lifted. “Because you were hired to watch me.”

“Yes, I think so.” His temples began to pound. She was too pale. He wanted to slip into her mind, to see what she was thinking, to see if any part of her still trusted him.

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