The Enigmatic Greek by Catherine George

Author:Catherine George [George, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
ISBN: 9781472001559
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2013-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

DUE to a new fondness for the miracle of electricity, Eleanor left the bedside lamp on for company when she was ready for bed, but sleep was hard to come by. She tossed and turned for what seemed like hours, prey to unfamiliar sexual frustration. She finally drifted into an uneasy, restless doze, but woke suddenly, heart pounding. She sat bolt-upright, cold sweat breaking out over her forehead as she stared in horror at the nightmare apparition in the open doorway. She uttered a hoarse scream and scrambled out of bed, so awkward in her terror she tripped and fell and for the first time in her life fainted dead away.

Eleanor came round pressed against Alex’s bare chest, his heart thumping like a drum against her cheek.

‘You’re safe, agapi mou,’ he assured her, breathing hard. ‘You had a bad dream.’

She opened her eyes a crack, afraid of what she might see, but there was no monstrous, terrifying figure in the open doorway. She heaved in a deep, unsteady breath. ‘It was just a nightmare?’

‘A very bad one, by your scream.’ He rubbed his cheek against her hair, his arms tightening protectively. ‘It took years off my life.’

‘Off mine too. It was so real. He was standing in the doorway with those great crystal eyes staring at me.’ She swallowed convulsively.

Alex tipped her face up to his. ‘Crystal eyes?’

Eleanor nodded. ‘Like the dancer. A bull’s head on a human male body.’

He smiled indulgently. ‘A nightmare indeed!’

‘Sorry to involve you in it—why are we sitting on the floor?’

‘I found you there. I broke the Olympic sprint record to get here when you screamed, and found you unconscious on the floor.’ He got to his feet, picked her up and put her back against the pillows. ‘You gave me such a scare. Are you better now?’

She shook her head. ‘Not really.’

‘I’ll go down to the kitchen and look for my mother’s tea.’

‘No! Please. Don’t leave me alone up here.’ She tried to smile. ‘Sorry to be such a coward, but the monster in the doorway seemed horribly real.’

Alex sat on the edge of the bed, eyes narrowed. ‘You left your door open?’

Eleanor frowned as she raked her hair back from her perspiring forehead. ‘Of course not. I was hardly likely to get ready for bed with it wide open.’

‘Not after the conversation we’d just had,’ he agreed dryly. ‘This apparition you saw. It was in the open doorway—not outside in the hall?’

‘It—he—was there in the doorway, Alex. I froze in horror, and for an instant I couldn’t tear my eyes away. Then I screamed my head off and jumped out of bed in such a panic I actually passed out. A first for me, by the way,’ she informed him, and shivered. ‘I need a shower.’ She licked her dry lips, eyeing him in appeal. ‘Would you stay here while I’m in the bathroom?’

‘Of course.’ He frowned. ‘But be quick, because I must search the Kastro. If what, or who, you saw here was real and not a dream, he must be found.

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