Finally Finding Faith by Tammy Falkner

Author:Tammy Falkner [Falkner, Tammy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Teen & Young Adult, Coming of Age, Contemporary, Romance, New Adult & College, Genre Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Military
Amazon: B00HVRDDQ8
Barnesnoble: B00HVRDDQ8
Publisher: Night Shift Publishing
Published: 2014-01-11T05:00:00+00:00

Faith

You know that moment in a movie when the girl walks into the dark basement to see what a noise was and you sit there screaming at the TV. No, don’t go in there! There’s a killer waiting to slash your throat down there in the dark! Yeah, this is my moment. Daniel opens the door to his hotel room and steps back so I can precede him. I grab the lapels of his jacket in my fists and look up at him. “You’re not going to hurt me, are you?”

His brow line shoots up. “Umm,” he says.

“Have you ever killed anybody?” I ask quickly.

He nods. “I was in the army.”

I shake my head frantically. “Outside the line of duty? Have you ever decapitated a strange, stupid woman who went back to your hotel room with you after seeing you across a room for a couple of hours?”

He laughs. It’s a deep belly laugh and it sounds so good on him. “You think I’d tell you if I did?” He turns me, smacks my bottom soundly and says, “Into the den of sin, lady. I’m right behind you with my handcuffs.”

The door snicks closed behind us and I lift a fingernail to my lips and nibble it. Maybe this wasn’t such a smart idea. Daniel reaches into his pocket and pulls out a pocketknife.

“Why do you have a knife?” I ask. I take two steps back.

He chuckles and looks me in the eye. “Real men carry pocket knives,” he says. “You never know when you’ll need to cut something.” He lifts my arm and puts the knife in my hand, closing my fist around it. “So you can protect yourself from anything that goes bump in the dark,” he whispers. He tweaks my nose. “Including me.”

“Do you have any other weapons?” I ask.

He nods. “I have a gun in the safe.” This time, he busies himself not looking at me.

“Locked up?” I ask.

He nods and grins.

“Why do you have a gun?” I ask.

“Because I have a right to bear arms,” he says with a shrug. He points to my hand. “But now you have a knife so you have nothing to worry about.”

“Except you taking it from me and using it on me.”

He takes his coat off and hangs it on the back of a chair. “If I wanted to do that, I would have already done it, dummy,” he says. He narrows his eyes and finally looks at me. “Why did you come here with me?” he asks. “Truly?”

Should I tell him? Should I tell him I saw the desperation in his eyes? Should I tell him I know how he’s feeling like all hope is lost? Should I tell him how I can sense it? “I once felt as lost as you,” I say quietly.

“I’m not lost,” he says. His voice is suddenly rough and abraded. “I’m right where I want to be.”

“I don’t mean directionally,” I shoot back.

“I’m not directionally challenged,” he says. He’s still tense, though, and I can tell I offended him.

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