Witness to Passion (Entangled Ignite) (Guarding Her Body) by Naima Simone

Author:Naima Simone [Simone, Naima]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Entangled: Ignite
Published: 2015-06-15T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Some people enjoyed the quiet. Found it soothing. Comforting.

Fallon had never been one of those people.

On bare feet, she descended the stairs from the second floor, escaping the stifling silence of her bedroom. As a child and even later as a teen, she’d often been accused of being too noisy or rambunctious. Which, okay, had been true. With a neglectful mother and workaholic father, she’d been alone most of the time except for the company of whatever nanny-of-the-month. The quiet had seemed to taunt her, driving home the fact that neither parent thought her special or lovable enough to spend time with. Silence was an indictment on her worthiness.

One she’d had a tough time disputing.

So she’d filled it with music, talking, television—anything.

Years later, old habits died hard.

Yet, the need to fill the vacuum of noise comprised only half the reason she was roaming through the house hours after arriving. Night had fallen, and she and Shane had shared a subdued dinner before Shane had holed himself up in the den, and she’d retired to her room for the evening. The voluntary seclusion had lasted thirty minutes.

From their first meeting when Shane had picked Addisyn up outside the local children’s theater where she and Fallon had been taking lessons, she’d been drawn to him. Then she could chalk it up to a girl’s crush on an older, gorgeous boy. As the years passed, the infatuation had deepened into more, and the pull never decreased in power but intensified. Even the disastrous kiss and their estrangement hadn’t diminished the strength of the tug on her heart when Addisyn mentioned his name or the rare occasions they occupied the same space.

With his abrupt and dramatic reappearance in her life, the draw had converted into a need. A need to be near him, inhale his scent, study his reserved but insanely sexy features. And after this morning…

A shudder rippled through her. She would never forget the sudden explosion of glass, the deadly hum of bullets slicing through the air, his big frame crushing her to the floor, covering her, protecting her…the terror pumping through her veins, strangling her as he hid her in the hall closet before closing the door to face possible death. For her.

Before she’d been shut into darkness, she’d frantically drank in the forbidding lines of his face, the harsh slash of his mouth, the rage darkening his turquoise eyes to that of a roiling, turbulent sea…prayed that same face would greet her when the door opened again.

She’d come so close to losing him. And whether he was avoiding or ignoring her, she’d didn’t care. As long as he still lived and breathed in all his anal glory. She couldn’t imagine a world without him in it.

“Oh shit!”

The bellow thundered from the back of the house in the direction of the kitchen. She froze on the bottom step. Shane. That roar had come from Shane. Oh God, Michaels found us. Fear gripped her, snatching control of her muscles and rendering her motionless.

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