Find Me, Save Me: Full Heart Ranch Series #1 by Gee Barbara

Author:Gee, Barbara [Gee, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-01-19T08:00:00+00:00

Maddy heard his voice over the pounding of her heart, but it took a moment to separate reality from the nightmare she’d just awoken from. When he repeated the question, she closed her eyes and nodded, even though he couldn’t see her.

“I’m okay,” she said finally, her voice coming out weak and shaky.

“Can I come in?”

Before she could answer he was opening the door. He stood there in the lamplight, wearing only a pair of lightweight grey sweatpants.

“Hey, I saw your light on. You sure you’re okay? Do you need anything?”

Maddy hastily wiped the tears from her cheeks. “I’m fine. I just—” she broke off and shook her head, not wanting to talk about the horrible dream that had left her crying and shaking.

He crossed to the bed, putting his iPad and a bottle of water on her bedside table.

“What is it?” he pressed. “What’s wrong?”

“I’m okay. I just, um, I had a really terrible dream and I wanted to have the light on for a while.”

He frowned, concerned, and lowered himself to the edge of the bed. “Have you been having nightmares, Maddy?”

She shook her head. “No. Not until now.”

“Jimmy?” he asked softly.

“Yeah.”

He sighed. “I was afraid of something like this. You bounced back so well, maybe too well. You seemed to be doing so good I didn’t think you’d want to talk to a counselor, but I should have insisted. I’ll find someone to work with you, sweetheart, I don’t want you to have to relive it in your dreams.”

“Let’s wait and see if it keeps on happening.”

“This was really the first one?”

She nodded, taking the tissue he held out. “I had a few flashbacks when I was in the hospital, but I’ve slept like a baby this week. I think it’s because I’m so far away from where it all happened. It’s like I’m in a different world, and it’s been surprisingly easy to put it out of my head. I don’t know if that’s the best way to handle it, but it seemed to be working.”

He took her hand and laced his fingers through hers. “I don’t want you to have to relive it, Maddy. I’ll do whatever it takes. If you want to talk to someone, just say the word. There’s no shame in that.”

Maddy shook her head, fresh tears welling up. “It wasn’t that. I wasn’t reliving what happened to me.”

“Then tell me what it was, Maddy. Tell me, so I can help you.”

As she remembered more of the dream she shuddered. He slowly stroked his hand over her hair.

“Talk to me, Maddy,” he urged.

“It was so real,” she choked out. “The dream, the nightmare, it was just so real.”

“Was Jimmy hurting you?”

She swallowed and shook her head. “No, not me, it was you, Tucker. He had you. He used me to lure you in and then they all attacked you with bats and pipes. They hit you over and over and I was tied up and couldn’t help you. They were laughing and taunting us, and they just wouldn’t stop.

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