The Perfect Enemy: An enemies to lovers romance (The Riverside Billionaire Series Book 3) by L.A. Pepper

Author:L.A. Pepper [Pepper, L.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-12-19T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Naomi

We ran through the woods, tripping and stumbling over the brush and roots, me because I was wearing boots three sizes too big, flopping around on my feet and Benji because his shoes were meant for red carpets, not rocks and leaves.

I fell to my hands and knees and he came up behind me, lifting me up and wrapping his arm around my waist.

“Come on, we’d better hold onto each other or we’ll end up slip-sliding back into their clutches.”

I looked over my shoulder and could still just barely see the large abandoned factory. We definitely weren’t safe yet.

I put my arm around his waist, too. We’d hold each other up.

Surprisingly, clinging to each other did make it easier to get away, especially as everything got rapidly darker the farther we got into the woods. We kept going in the direction of the fading light – west toward the setting sun. It felt like we’d been running through the woods for hours, with the snow falling in wet clumps, sometimes spitting rain, and sometimes driving little shards of ice at us.

“Wait, wait,” I gasped after we had stumbled down into one valley and then climbed, sometimes on hands and knees up over another slope. I clung to the trunk of a pine tree, unable to catch my breath. I was used to running for fitness, but not through the woods like this. My head was pounding, my tongue was dry as sandpaper and my limbs were clumsy. “Do you think we got away?”

He looked off over the way we’d come, not breathing hard at all, but there was a rigidity to his body. His usual languid grace was gone. The bones of his face were sharp and determined. He was listening, as if he could hear something I couldn’t. Maybe he could. He was good at everything. Maybe he had sharper hearing than I did.

He wiped the rain from his face and shook his head. It was beautiful, a shadowy purply blue, with the heavy clouds off to the west almost glowing, and a musical percussion of raindrops falling from the trees to the leaf-littered ground below.

I wanted to have come far enough to be safe, but I had the feeling that we weren’t safe at all.

He took Eddie’s watch out of the pocket of the peacoat and inhaled deeply. “It’s only been about twenty minutes since we climbed out of the window. For sure that’s not far enough away.” He tucked the watch away. “We couldn’t possibly be so lucky that they don’t find out we’re gone for hours. We have to act as if they know we’ve escaped and are looking for us.”

He was right. I felt worn out but taking a break now could put us in danger again. I nodded then pushed off from the tree. “Then let’s get going.”

“Wait. Wait.” He dug around in the plastic bag and handed me half a sandwich and a water bottle. “You need to eat and drink. I don’t know how long we’ve been unconscious but it’s at least a day.

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