Beyond The Sun by Sandra Bischoff

Author:Sandra Bischoff
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Bayou Brew Publishing
Published: 2013-04-01T22:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

JARED ROLLED ONTO HIS BACK AND REALIZED, FOR the first time in years, he felt a sense of peace. There was no nightmare, no anxiety attack, not even the slightest hint of trembling hands to wake up to. Sure, he felt like there was a freight train running through the middle of his head, but he could deal with it. Everything else he typically woke up with, he could do without. By some miracle this morning, he had.

He cracked open one eye and immediately regretted it. Jared made a grab for the nearest thing in reach and covered his face with a…nightgown? He paused, inhaling the sweet feminine scent. He lowered the silky material from his cheek. Pushing up to sit on the edge of the bed, he laid the nightgown beside him and tossed back a few Tylenol from the bottle left for him on the side table. He then downed a half a bottle of water. Running his hands over his face, he cringed when his fingers ran over his temple.

Fragmented images from the previous evening began to piece themselves together in his mind. He scanned the bedroom. This was definitely not his house. Where the hell was he? His jeans were still on, but his shirt was across the room.

What happened last night?

He remembered running after a woman who appeared to be Giovanna. G was alive? No, it couldn’t have been her. He touched a tender spot on his neck. What the hell? The gash on his temple he remembered, but his neck?

Pushing out of bed, Jared stumbled across the room on rubbery legs. He leaned forward and examined the sore on the side of his neck in the mirror above the dresser. What the hell is that? He vaguely remembered a gun being shot. After a stabbing pain in his neck, everything went black. It had to have been some kind of tranquilizer. At some point Lance woke him by tossing him into bed. But where was he? More to the point, why did he have a nagging feeling he hadn’t spent the night alone?

Bright and cheery, cosmetics on the dresser and flowers on the comforter, he was obviously in a woman’s room. Alex’s? There wasn’t a chance in hell she let him into her house. She didn’t even like him. She just needed a story. He had figured her out at the Gala.

But still, they had been getting along, until he left her in the middle of the club last night. I’m a fucking idiot.

He pinched the bridge of his nose, hoping to relieve the pressure building in his head. Jared picked up his t-shirt before heading out the bedroom door. The wonderful aroma of fresh coffee greeted him in the hall. He followed it into the small eat-in kitchen where he found Alex in pajama pants and a cut off t-shirt. Her chestnut hair was pulled up into a palm tree ponytail on top of her head, and she was typing nonstop on her laptop, periodically stopping to push her glasses up her nose.

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