Entangled by Anna Lowe

Author:Anna Lowe [Lowe, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Panama, Adventure, Romance
Publisher: Twin Moon Press
Published: 2015-07-07T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Alarms sounded throughout Cara’s body, ringing, blinking, and whooping. It seemed as if every man in the village glared at Alfonso from the shadows. The women were on guard, and every young girl was conspicuously hidden away. Even if this stranger hadn’t been in her field of vision — or had been, until Tobin moved to block him out — she would have felt him there. The way you felt a stranger walk behind you on a dimly lit street, or a mean mutt eye your ankles, calculating how far his chain might let him reach. That’s what the man was doing now. Calculating.

One gun against a dozen visitors — plus Tobin, who stood before her like a brick wall. He seemed to have doubled in size, a silverback gorilla ready to defend his turf.

The terrifying thing? She was the turf, and a fight could mean death.

Part of her wanted to huff, flip the intruder off, and put these posturing men back in their places. Who did this Alfonso guy think he was, looking at her like that? And who did Tobin think he was, playing knight?

Another part of her, though, shrank away. The scene playing out in front of her wasn’t just posturing; it was the prelude to a fight.

Something tugged at her hand. The old woman, motioning her away. Urgently. Insistently.

Come with me. Now. Get out of this bad man’s sight.

Nothing she’d like better, but she wasn’t going anywhere without Tobin. She pulled his hand, and he turned.

Her breath stuck in her throat, because it was a Tobin she’d never, ever seen before. Gone was the generous charm, replaced by a fierce, intent warrior, ready to lay it all on the line. For her. Nostrils flaring like an angry bull.

She tightened her grip. If fingers could talk, hers would be begging. Tobin, come with me.

His eyes flashed. You go. I stay, as long as this shit stays.

No way. Not without you. No way was she leaving him in a stare-off with an armed man.

His eyes flickered, softened, and then closed briefly. When they opened again, he brought her hand to his mouth and kissed her knuckles. The lapis blue eyes gazing into hers were full of promises and hopes, and something inside her melted as her heart begged for permission to love him again.

A second ticked by, and in it, an eternity. The intruder and the village and the rain forest all blurred out of focus until it was just the two of them.

Then something moved at the periphery of her vision, and she snapped back. Rodrigo and his uncle — bless them — had stepped in front of Alfonso, continuing their protests.

“No chicha! No!”

That gave her the break she needed. Cara pulled on Tobin’s hand, and this time, he followed her back out into the rain.

It was a cleansing rain that scrubbed the doubt and desperation away until she’d never been as sure of anything in her life as she was sure of him. Of them.

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