Blood Stains by Sharon Sala

Author:Sharon Sala [Sala, Sharon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Suspense, Man-Woman Relationships, Romantic Suspense Fiction, Murder, Oklahoma, Cold Cases (Criminal Investigation)
ISBN: 9780778329411
Publisher: Mira
Published: 2010-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

Twelve

B odie swigged the last of his Pepsi, then eyed the lone piece of pizza growing cold in the box.

“You gonna eat that?” he asked.

“I’m stuffed. Knock yourself out,” Maria said.

“No need letting it go to waste,” he said, making sure he picked the remaining cheese off the paper to go with it.

“I need to wash my hands,” she said, and rolled off the bed and strode across the room to the bathroom.

Bodie eyed her walk and knew that he would never be able to flaunt a pair of sweats like that. They cupped her curves while accenting her long legs and slow stride. He thought it quite gentlemanly of himself that he’d managed to ignore the fact that she was wearing that tee without a bra, then sighed with admiration as he took out half the pizza slice in one bite.

She didn’t bother to close the door as she washed her face and hands at the sink, and didn’t think, until she was coming back into the room, how easy he was to be around.

At that moment he looked up and grinned at her. A surge of emotion shot through her, startling her with an unexpected longing. It shook her enough that she went straight to the window instead of sitting back down on the bed with him. To her surprise, when she looked out, she could see lightning in the distance.

“Hey! I just saw lightning. Do you think it’s going to storm?”

There was a tinge of panic in her voice as he reached for the remote.

“I don’t know, but we’ll soon find out,” he said, and turned on the TV, then flipped it to a local channel. “See that map of the state up in the corner?”

Maria forgot to be wary as she hurried back to where he was sitting and sat down on the edge of the mattress beside him.

“Yes, I see it. What county are we in?”

Bodie pointed to Tulsa County. “That’s us…right here. So if they change the color of the county from yellow to red, that means the county has gone from a storm warning to a tornado warning, okay?”

The concern was still in her voice when she said, “We don’t have tornadoes in Montana much.”

“Don’t be scared,” Bodie said. “The city will blow sirens if it gets really bad.”

“Then what?” she asked.

“Then you grab some shoes and get to the lowest level, which means the ground floor. Use the stairs, not the elevator. Sometimes the power goes off, and you don’t want to get stuck. They’ll show you where to go once you’re down in the lobby, but if you get confused, the best thing to do is get to an inner room, like a bathroom, and stay away from windows.”

“Lord,” Maria muttered.

“It’ll be okay,” Bodie said.

“You don’t know that,” she muttered.

He grinned, and without thinking, he slipped his arm around her shoulders and gave her a quick hug.

“You’re right. I don’t. But it sounded good, didn’t it?”

He’d made her laugh.

“You’re quite the charmer, aren’t you, Bodie Scott?”

It was the sound of her laughter that hooked him.

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