Adrift by Jana DeLeon

Author:Jana DeLeon [DeLeon, Jana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J&R Publishing
Published: 2022-10-11T00:00:00+00:00

Emma bolted up as the thunder shook the walls. The room was pitch-black and completely unfamiliar. Frantic, she reached for her phone to get some light, and only when she shone it around her did she remember she was in her new apartment.

Safe in her new apartment.

She reached for the lamp but it didn’t come on. As she’d used it the night before, she assumed that meant the storm had taken out the power. But that was okay. Her flashlight was one of the first things she always unpacked, and it was in the nightstand drawer. She pulled it out and then cast the wide beam at the ceiling, lighting up the entire room. Thunder rumbled overhead again, and she saw flashes of lightning in between the blind slats. Then the rain began to pour, sounding off on the metal roof.

Since sleep wasn’t going to happen again until the storm was over, she flung back the covers and headed for the kitchen. She craved a cup of coffee, but it was just as well there was no power to produce one. The caffeine would keep her from falling back to sleep, and as it was only 2:00 a.m. she really hoped the storm eased up in time for her to get some more in. She’d stayed up past midnight, hanging and arranging her clothes and rearranging the kitchen items to suit her better, so she hadn’t been asleep long before the storm hit.

She grabbed a caffeine-free soda from the fridge—soda she kept specifically for these kinds of nights—and headed to the living room. She lifted a navy throw blanket from the end of the couch and moved to the other side, farthest away from the patio doors. Lightning flashed through the blinds every couple minutes and the rain continued to pour.

She grabbed her laptop off the coffee table and typed his name in the search bar.

Levi Hughes.

Links immediately populated to the young attorney who was already making a name for himself with the DA’s office in Los Angeles. She clicked on his social media page and smiled when she saw the picture of him and his fiancée on a sailboat the weekend before. Satisfied, she closed the laptop and leaned back on the couch.

It had been a long time since she’d had that dream. Since she’d seen Levi—her savior—again. She literally owed him her life and desperately wished there were some way to thank him. But she couldn’t risk contacting him, not even anonymously. She’d kept up with Ivan as well, and although he’d finally come under scrutiny, the DA’s office hadn’t managed an indictment yet. Which made her wonder just how many government offices Ivan had people working for him in. She was certain that Levi wasn’t one of them but contacting Levi would put him at risk. As far as she knew, no one but her, Levi, and his uncle knew how she got out of the state, but those facts had never made it to the police.

After she’d fled California, she’d learned to reroute her internet connection using proxies.

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