Boyett-Compo, Charlotte - Wind Demon 1 by Blood Wind

Author:Blood Wind [Wind, Blood]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-12-24T00:00:04.175000+00:00

Part II

Chapter 15

SHE WAS not at the door awaiting him with open arms when he returned to FSK-14 two months

later; he had been gone a month longer than planned and she had had no way of knowing why or when

he would return. She did not hear him enter his quarters for she was occupied with, and his arrival

drowned out by, the sounds coming from the antique music device she so cherished.

He flung his flight bag on the sofa and walked to her door. She was lying across the bed on her back,

the earphones of the old CD player clapped over her ears. Her eyes were closed and she was gripping

one of his old utility shirts to her chest. He was stunned to see tears running down her cheeks. The sight

of her sorrow cut right through his soul.

"Bridget?" he called out, but she did not hear him. He called again and when she still did not respond,

he looked around for the CD player, spied it, and then walked over to turn it off. When he did, she

opened her eyes, saw him and gasped. The look on her face hurt him deeply. As she scrambled off the

bed, putting distance between them, her hand going up to ward him off, the pain deepened.

"How long have you been standing there?" Cree started toward her, wanting desperately to take her in

his arms, but when he took that first step, she whimpered. He would have had to be deaf not to hear the

terror in the sound.

"When did you get back?" she asked, tossing his old utility shirt to the bed.

He shook his head in answer, turned and walked to his bedsuite.

Bridget reached up to take the earphones from her head. She put them aside and, with her heart

thudding like a trip hammer in her chest, she looked down to see her hands shaking. Clenching her fists,

she stood there, waiting for him to call to her, to make good on the bargain they had made before he left,

but he didn't.

An hour passed. Two.

She heard nothing from his bedsuite. Going to her door, she listened, heart in her throat, but heard no

sound from behind his closed door. Hesitantly, thinking perhaps he meant for her to come to him, she

went to his door, and after a long moment of indecision, rapped lightly. "Captain?"

"Go away, Bridget."

She had spent two months wondering what would happen when he returned to FSK-14. Since she

had had no outside contact with those on board the station, she had no way of knowing why he was

staying away longer than the one month he had been ordered to serve. When the time for him to return

came and went, she began to wonder if he hadn't been detained for some infraction of Hell-12

regulations; knowing Cree, that was entirely possible. When the second month had nearly passed, she

began to worry about him. There were brutal men on Hell-12 and she had found herself fearing for his

safety. Only the night before, she had dreamed of him lying in a medical ward: hurt and alone, calling out

her name, needing her.

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