Hard Instincts: Special Ops military guy with extrasensory powers - can you get any hotter than that? by Chloe Fischer

Author:Chloe Fischer [Fischer, Chloe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chloe Fischer
Published: 2017-12-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Chicago, Illinois

Paige chewed on her nails, perched on the edge of the cot in the on-call room.

This is bizarre, she thought for the tenth time in two hours. What am I doing?

As if on cue, the door to the small room flew open and Noel stood furiously in the doorway.

“What the hell are you doing here?” he hissed. He was wearing his lab jacket over a pair of light blue scrubs but Paige could not see a crease in the material.

When I work a full shift, my clothes are barely recognizable as clothes. And he wonders why he never gets promoted.

She did not respond, turning her attention back to the tablet in her hands.

“We have plans with Kyle and Alison!” Noel barked, drawing closer.

“Get out, Noel. I’m working,” Paige said emotionlessly. “You can meet your brother and ex-girlfriend for dinner without me.”

He flew toward her, his hand raised and Paige instinctively raised her arm to block the impending blow.

Noel froze suddenly, staring at her face.

“What – where –?” he trailed off, searching her face for signs of the trauma he had inflicted upon her the previous night.

Paige stared at him with dead eyes.

“Where are the bruises and marks you left all over my face last night?” she offered. “They’re gone.”

He opened his mouth but no words came out and Paige held his gaze until he lowered his eyes.

“I don’t mean to, baby,” he murmured. “I don’t know what comes over me. I just – “

“You just love me so much?” she finished. “You get overwhelmed with the stress of work? You can’t bear that I’m an attending and you’ve been written up more times than I can count?”

Noel’s mouth became a slash of fury.

“Screw you, Paige. Everyone knows you only got where you are because you’re banging the chief.”

If it had been any other day, Paige would have been deeply insulted and argued the slanderous statement.

But not today. Something had changed since she had scraped herself off the hallway floor at dawn that morning.

Ryder Conway changed me, she thought, her hand automatically touching her healed face. She didn’t claim to understand what had happened between them when he had laid his palms against her cheeks. All she had felt was a surge of energy flow into her skin and suddenly the pain was gone.

To Noel’s horror, she grinned at him broadly, her face alight with amusement.

“That’s a new one,” she laughed. “I’m sleeping with Hunter now, am I?”

Noel’s face contorted but Paige held her eyes steady and eventually he was driven back toward the door. She did not speak again but her silence seemed to unnerve him greatly.

“You’re tired, Paige,” he muttered. “You need to take some time off and sleep.”

He spun and left her alone in the on-call room and Paige exhaled.

Her bravado had been false Her pulse was racing in her chest.

I am lucky he didn’t come after me again, she thought, eyeing the door to ensure he did not change his mind.

I have to leave him, she told herself.

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