Trusting Zane by Casey Hagen

Author:Casey Hagen [Hagen, Casey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aces Press, LLC
Published: 2019-05-14T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Kinsley lay in the queen-sized bed with Tyler and Brielle as they slept peacefully next to her. She’d promised them she’d stay with them.

That had been two hours earlier.

Now, she had to see if their guardian was going to let her follow through on her word.

Instead of being an adult, she’d hid in that room, using those kids as an excuse to avoid Zane. She’d listened as his guests, clients, confidants, whatever they were left, a couple here, a couple there, over the course of the last thirty minutes.

The house grew quiet. The kind of quiet that was louder than a roaring house party.

A heavy stillness full of all the things unsaid, undone.

Her skin tingled with awareness as the sound of tentative footsteps reached the door to the room.

She thought he would be aggressive, come after her, his anger spilling over at her constant invasion of his privacy.

His resentment for the part she played in resurrecting his past.

But it was the look on his face when he realized she had overheard. The shock of fear, something she had never expected to see on a man so confident, so in control, so powerful.

The man with one weakness.

The love he had for his family—it tangled with his fears, with his pain, and as well-meaning as she believed him to be, she couldn’t be certain he had the clarity of mind to handle what was to come.

She slid off the mattress and laid Brielle’s arm on the teddy bear Grace had dropped off earlier with the board games and other odds and ends. Kinsley tucked the comforter in on both sides, making the kids snug. Leaving the lamplight on so they didn’t get scared if they woke, she slipped out the door.

She waited and listened. Once she was sure they continued to sleep, she headed for the kitchen. She’d fled before and left her mess for the others, not her finest moment, but she would go in now and make sure the kitchen floor had been scrubbed and any shards that might remain from the glass that shattered at her feet were disposed of before little feet bounded out of bed in the morning.

Careful to be quiet, to avoid confrontation, she padded along in her socks, scanning the dim light for any sign of Zane, but only found stillness.

Reaching the doorway to the kitchen, she froze, her hand resting on the doorframe, her eyes landing right on Zane’s powerful back.

He stared out the window to the backyard, his body still.

The same dress pants he wore earlier hugged his thighs and that white cotton dress shirt concealed what she now knew to be a shockingly violent past.

The memories of their kiss flooded her mind, a kiss she now knew to be shared with someone dangerously haunted by trauma. Her lips tingled with awareness, with yearning, even as trepidation told her to retreat.

“Are they asleep?” he said with a gravelly voice, making her jump.

“They are,” she said, squeezing the wood frame.

“You’re going to take

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