Whispers and Wishes (Untouchable Book 4) by Heather Long

Author:Heather Long [Long, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-01T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Dangerous Curve Ahead

Frankie

Something smothered me. Even as I fought against it, the pressure bore down and I couldn’t get air into my lungs. They burned, and my eyes teared as I flailed.

“Frankie.”

No. I had to get away. I had to…

“Frankie.”

Eyes snapping open, I jerked back against the pillows as I stared into the darkness. Then a light shone from Ian’s phone, and he had hold of my left hand in his right. There was a red mark on his jaw, and all of a sudden, my wrist hurt like hell.

A groan escaped, and I closed my eyes.

“It’s okay,” he said gently. “It’s really okay. You awake now?”

“Yeah?” I tugged my fingers from his grasp to scrub at my face. Terror churned in my stomach. Unease slid along my spine. Adrenaline pounded in my veins.

“You don’t sound too certain,” Ian murmured, the bed depressing under his weight as he sat next to me. It was the first night since I’d come home that I slept alone.

I sighed and dropped my hand back to his. When he cradled my hand and then closed his fingers around it, I held on a little tighter. “I’m not.” My heart raced, and even though I tried to calm my breathing, it was still coming in fierce pants.

The light from his phone cut out and plunged us back into darkness. “Can I help?”

Archie had texted that something had come up and he might be late getting back over if he made it at all. But he promised to see me first thing in the morning. Jake and Coop hadn’t come back either, though they’d texted as well. If I’d asked, they’d have come. But I got it. They were trying to give me and Ian time together.

“Will you lie up here for a little while?” I didn’t want to ask. Hell, I didn’t want to push, but I didn’t want to be alone either.

He shifted without letting go of my hand and put his phone beside the bed, and then he stood. For a second, I thought he would retreat back to his pallet on the floor. Then he lifted the comforter and slid in next to me. For that, he had to let go of my hand.

“How do you want to…?” he started to ask, but I rolled onto my side as he extended his arm, and then I curled up and put my cheek against his chest as he curved his arm around me. I hadn’t really been this close to Ian in a while. Not even in the days when he was here day in and day out. The others had let me curl up with them, but he hadn’t.

Eyes closed, I burrowed my nose against his shirt as he brushed some of the hair away from my face. His heart beat a steady tattoo. Curled up on my left, I rested my right wrist against his mid-section.

“If that’s too heavy…”

“Shh,” he said. “Nothing about you is too heavy.” Then he pressed a kiss to my forehead.

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