Executive Liaisons by Jennifer Bramseth

Author:Jennifer Bramseth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Woodford Press

13

“I love you, Jessa…,” he whispered against her shoulder. “I love you. Remember that I love you…”

“Gil, stop…,” she said in a choked sob.

“Tell Molly her daddy loved her so much…”

He supposed there were worse ways to go.

Alone, confused. In severe pain. Although that could still happen.

Not having the chance to say goodbye.

And that could be the case when it came to Molly. But if Jessa made it out, at least she could pass on her daddy’s last message.

It was true what they said about those moments where you knew your life was imperiled. In what had to be mere seconds, he saw all the good things mixed with the bad, running across his consciousness. Across a screen in his mind flashed images of the life as he had lived and regretted, rejoiced and despaired.

Most of the memories were of Molly, and those were happy ones.

And then came visions of Jessa, a mixture of pleasure and pain. Happiness at what they had rediscovered but so much regret about the past and a future they would be denied…

But as time stretched, the tempest outside dwindled like the blessed ebbing of a terrible pain.

Beneath him, Jessa was trembling but no longer crying. He remained motionless, too fearful to believe that they had actually survived and with the car cabin remarkably intact. He was waiting on the next sheet of rain, gust, or tree to hit the car.

While wind and rain still battered the likely totaled vehicle, the threat having vanished for the moment.

He exhaled a long, grateful breath.

“Are you all right?”

She answered with a whimper and nod. “But what if it’s not over?”

“When you looked at the radar, did you see another line of storms behind the one that we just lived through?”

“I… I don’t think so. But I can’t be sure.”

She tried to shift underneath him, and the movement caused a reaction he knew she would soon be able to detect.

“Wish I hadn’t eaten so much,” she said.

“I don’t think you could be expected to predict that we would soon be in the back seat of my car, hunkered down in the middle of a tornado outbreak, and fearing for our lives.”

“Thank you for protecting me.”

“It’s a natural instinct to protect the ones you love.”

To his surprise, she kissed him. “I love you too, Gil.”

By now she had to feel his physical response to their most peculiar intimate circumstances. He tried to move some of his weight so that he was not pressing so hard down on her chest and stomach.

She smiled and rolled her hips against his.

“Sorry. Couldn’t help it. Instinct.” She winked at him.

The relative stretch of quiet outside the vehicle remained unbroken.

“Where’s your phone?” he asked.

“I think I dropped it in the front seat or the floor before crawling back here.”

With a very quick kiss—because anything else was liable to get him into trouble—he shifted off her and unceremoniously clambered to the front passenger side. There was Jessa’s phone, sporting a bright purple plastic cover and easily located in the car’s dark interior.

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