Threat of Danger (Mission Recovery Book 2) by Dana Marton

Author:Dana Marton [Marton, Dana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781503950054
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2018-06-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Thursday

JESS BEGAN THURSDAY with a ten-mile run: five miles into Taylorville and five miles back. Pam went with her. The sun was out, minimal traffic on the road, the air fresh in a way people in LA couldn’t even imagine.

“Are we there yet?” Pam asked, groaning, then fell silent.

They’d started out talking, then turned quieter and quieter as they picked up speed, each focused on their breathing.

“Almost.” Jess’s brain was full of turmoil, pretty much a standard state of affairs since she’d come back. She needed to talk to Derek about yesterday’s kiss. She’d always thought if something like that ever happened again, the tide of past memories would rise and drown her. Instead, it had been a tide of need. And somehow that flood of desire, and how her body had simply surrendered, was even scarier.

She’d trembled inside. She didn’t think he’d noticed, thank God.

She’d tried to think that he was the man who’d witnessed her bloody torture, so what they were doing had to be all wrong, couldn’t be right. But instead, her heart had said he was the one who’d helped her off that water tower, he was the one who’d freed her and carried her away from the camper that had been their prison for three endless days, and he was the one to come over and shovel the snow off the roof for her mother and Zelda in her absence.

No. She couldn’t think that. She couldn’t, or she would fall for him all over again.

She needed to tell him that the kiss had been a mistake, and this wasn’t what she wanted. She hadn’t come home for this. He needed to respect her boundaries.

So . . . she needed to work up the courage to talk with Derek. Not that she had concerns about him, that he’d somehow be a jerk about it. He wasn’t like that. She was concerned that she would cave and ask him to kiss her again. She needed to put all her walls firmly in place. Maybe dig a moat around her heart.

OK, not a moat. He was a SEAL. Water wouldn’t stop him.

Dammit.

“I can’t believe Eliot left so fast.” Pam gasped for oxygen. “I barely got to see him. You’re so lucky. There are so many hot men in Hollywood. Here . . .” She stopped, either trailing off into a meaningful silence or no longer able to breathe.

“How bad can it be?” Jess glanced at Pam to make sure she was OK. “Look at all those sugar workers and lumberjacks. Have you seen those muscles?”

“Saw them. Wept over them. Everyone’s married.” Pam grunted as they began the slight incline to the Taylor farm. “You wanna know how bad it is?” Gasp. “I joined the Versquatchers.”

Jess laughed. “It can’t be that bad.”

Pam shot her a dark look while gasping some more. “It’s the only place with single men left.”

“If Chuck wasn’t president, I’d say there’s a reason for that.” Jess slowed. “But I feel like I owe him allegiance.

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