The Reunited by Shiloh Walker

Author:Shiloh Walker
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

SEVENTEEN

JOSS waited for her the next day.

She didn’t come.

He wasn’t surprised, but he sure as hell was disappointed.

Still, it wasn’t his only reason for being at the Waffle House that day.

Jones had come through with the first “victim” . . . the telepath. They were meeting to discuss how things were going to happen. Of course, they were meeting after Joss had parked his stolen car at a gym, gone for a walk, climbed into a bus, and then made his way over here.

Sometime during the previous night, the SUV had been bugged.

He’d discovered that almost right away.

Jones had indeed given him some more useful toys, but Joss could have found the bug on the car in the dark with his hands tied. Not to mention that it had all but vibrated and called his name, it was so toxic.

Would have been nice to see Dru that morning. Cleared his head. His mind. Even as it clouded it. But he had to remember what he was here for. Because if he didn’t keep his focus on the job, he was fucked and so were a lot of other people. He’d been waiting for her for too long. He’d live through this—he’d get through this. He hadn’t waited this long to find her only to screw himself over by getting lazy or crazy.

Still, as he headed across the road, he strengthened that mental connection, found himself lodged quite firmly in her mind.

Hello, duchess.

She was mostly still asleep and she welcomed him with a startled sigh, then a smile. Joss . . .

You didn’t meet me.

He wished he could actually be wherever she was. Wondered if he could picture himself there . . . and then he remembered. He’d seen the place. In that figment of a dream.

Building it in his mind, he kept a sliver of his focus on his surroundings and tried to imagine himself right there, mentally, with her. Tried to slide right into her dreams.

She was slowly climbing into wakefulness and he couldn’t join her in her dreams, but her shields were lower now and he found himself with a deeper connection than he’d had before. In her mind, able to feel her surprise. Her pleasure. And that deep, innate fear. He tried to look deeper for that, but already Dru was scrambling to jerk up her shields there, and he didn’t want to cause the pain that he knew he’d cause with his inept fumbling if he pried.

She’d tell him. Sooner or later.

* * *

SHE’D dreamed of him.

And she came awake biting her lip to keep from calling out his name.

Even in her dreams she couldn’t fully let her guard down, and it was that self-preservation alone that kept her from fucking herself over as he settled himself rather determinedly into her thoughts. Like he’d opened the door to her room, it seemed, and just walked right in, brash as you please.

What are you doing? she thought, rolling onto her stomach and pressing her face into the pillow.

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