Stone Devil Duke: A Hold Your Breath Novel by K.J. Jackson

Author:K.J. Jackson [Jackson, K.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: AWD Publishing
Published: 2014-04-19T04:00:00+00:00

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The screams sent him running up the stairs. Sleep had eluded him, so he had left Aggie in bed and gone down to Killian’s study. He wanted to go over one of the initial reports he had on activities of the band of four.

There had to be something he was missing about their connection to the leader. Maybe he had to go further back in history with them. Where they came from, how they knew each other. He had already made plans to send one of the extra guards he had hired to accompany them, back into London with more direct instructions for his team of five runners. They were still investigating, attempting to find the leader. They were smart, and probably already digging into pasts, but Devin wasn’t leaving it up to assumption.

The screams, screeching, blood-curdling, in a pitch like nothing he had ever heard before, shot him out of the carved wooden chair and sprinting up the stairs.

Wearing only pants and wishing he had a knife in hand, he busted into the room he always used at Killian’s home, battle-cocked to fight whoever was attacking Aggie.

Searching the dark corners of the room, Devin saw no movement. Frantic, he focused on Aggie in the stream of moonlight coming through the open window, only to see her still in bed, still lying down, still screeching. A chill went to his bones as he watched her writhe, sheets flying.

Rushing to her, he hoped against hope she wasn’t injured. Damn his idiocy in leaving her alone. Untangling her limbs from the sheets, he caught her face in full-out scream, eyes closed, and realized she was asleep.

He clamped down on her shoulders, pinning her to the bed. The screams got louder and she pitched violently, trying to free herself from his hands.

“Aggie. Wake up. Wake up.” Devin’s face hovered over hers. He wasn’t sure she could hear him through her own shrieking.

“Aggie. Stop. You’re safe. Aggie. Wake up.”

A quick gasp of air, and Aggie’s eyes flew open as she jerked up against his hold.

Panic flooded her face, then confusion, then she collapsed back into the bed, panting, as her face fell. “I was screaming, wasn’t I?”

“Like someone had cut your arm off.”

Devin thought he saw her cringe at his words, but then she closed her eyes, tilting her head back up against the pillow.

“I am so embarrassed that you saw that.” She opened her eyes to look at him. “I am sorry I woke you up.”

“I wasn’t asleep, I was downstairs. No apologizing. Now tell me.”

“Tell you what?”

“Tell me what is going on in your mind.”

She closed her eyes again, shaking her head, wedging it deeper into the pillow. “I dream. I cannot control my dreams when I am overly tired.”

“You are not going to tell me, are you?”

“No.” She said quickly, jumping on the option he inadvertently offered up.

Devin sighed and removed his hands from her shoulders. He pulled the sheet over her. “Fine. Back to sleep for you. But I am asking again in the morning.

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