Believe in Me by Crystal Jordan

Author:Crystal Jordan
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2010-02-15T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Tori dreamed about her last day as a human every night that week, her subconscious’s constant reminder to keep her guard up around Jericho, to not get too close, to never repeat her past mistakes. Because she might help other people fall in love, but her final hours as a human proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that she was a failure in the love department—always had been, always would be.

She just wished the details had grown fuzzier with time, but they hadn’t. The nightmare always started in the same place. She and Jericho arguing. Again. She’d wanted to see Enrique, to assure her brother that she was all right. She’d hated that she knew he’d be worried, and she’d been certain if she explained to him how she felt about Jericho, that he’d understand, that he’d give them his blessing. Jericho didn’t want to release her as his prisoner, but her insistence had finally paid off and he’d returned her to her brother—or maybe he’d just gotten sick of listening to her, and his sexual toy had been less fun to play with. Her reputation had already been tattered beyond repair, so the damage to her brother’s honor had been done.

The reasons didn’t matter, in the end. All that mattered was that things hadn’t gone the way she’d planned. She’d been such a naïve little idiot. Enrique hadn’t understood—he’d refused to let her go back to a man who’d stolen her virtue. Nothing she said would make him believe she loved Jericho, that she didn’t want to live without him.

Her mind was locked in the dream, wanting to change how it ended, kicking and screaming and railing at herself, but it always ended the same. She could only watch and wait and live through her own demise over and over again. It was like Groundhog Day on crack.

She’d managed to escape Enrique’s guards during the chaos of preparations for a surprise raid, and ridden her horse into the little backwater Texas town Jericho and his men occupied. Getting lost in the dark twice, terrified she wouldn’t be able to warn Jericho in time, her memory tormented her with every moment of the horrifying panic of that ride. One of Jericho’s men had reluctantly told her where to find him—the local saloon. The brothel. She hadn’t wanted to believe, but she couldn’t deny the truth that faced her—her brother had been right, Jericho had only used her to taunt an enemy, and she was a fool. She’d blurted out the information about Enrique’s plans, that Jericho and his men were in danger, and then she’d staggered out, too broken, too numb to know or care where she should go next. She’d just gotten back on her horse and left. Jericho hadn’t tried to stop her, hadn’t come after her, hadn’t cared that she’d been caught in the raid. He hadn’t cared that she’d died trying to save his life. And he certainly hadn’t had the decency to live and make her sacrifice worth something.

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