Insider Threat (Deep Cover Book 1) by Marliss Melton

Author:Marliss Melton [Melton, Marliss]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, military, romance
Publisher: James-York Press
Published: 2021-09-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

On Saturday, Chuck resisted reaching for the Percocet. He gritted his teeth and rode out the pain, miserable and unable to sleep. He wished Katy would call him. The mere sound of her voice would ease his discomfort, as it had before. But she didn’t call, and Chuck refused to get her number from Austin in order to call her first. He didn’t need to look that desperate.

On Sunday, he slept most of the day, lulled by the rain that fell in a steady downpour between his and Katy’s apartments. He woke up feeling better. Katy still hadn’t called him, but his family did, catching him off guard.

“Mom.”

Chuck spoke at length with his mother, loving the sound of her voice, catching up on all the news he’d missed these past two months. He hoped he would never have to go without hearing her voice again, but his future remained as clear as mud.

“How’s Dad’s new hip?” he asked.

“Why don’t you ask him yourself. Here he is.”

“My son.”

Within seconds his father had Chuck laughing, wiping away tears that were part mirth, part heartache. It was like he’d never broken ties in the first place.

The thought filled him with panic. How could he have found himself in the exact same position he’d been in before Christmas?

Neither his mother nor his father mentioned a word about Sobo and Seiko’s visit. They asked no questions about the shooting. They didn’t want to discuss, any more than Chuck did, what was at stake—their future as well as his.

“I’ll call you next Sunday,” he promised, loath to speak to Sobo or listen to her repeat her threats. He knew what was expected of him. He knew it, and he abhorred it.

On Monday, despite earlier forecasts, the sky was spitting a cold rain that bordered on sleet. A home health aide visited Chuck at his apartment to check on the collection cylinder. When it proved to be dry, the aide pulled the tube out of him, applied pressure, and left a bandage below the bandage covering his bullet wound.

Chuck was standing near the balcony door, alone in the wake of the aide’s departure and sipping hot tea, when he saw Katy dash through the rain with her computer bag slung over one shoulder.

“Headed for school,” he murmured, mocking himself for ever thinking her an assassin or a Special Agent. She was just an assertive young woman moving up in the world. He admired her ambition.

But why hadn’t she called and talked to him since their amazing kiss the other day? She could have at least texted. Hadn’t she felt that magnetic tug between them? He had dreamed more than once of them getting carried away, taking their clothes off.

She’d said, Wow. That had to mean something.

He looked up at the sky, more yellow than gray. The rain was abating. He felt his left side. Without a tube snaking out of his chest, he felt almost normal. He could most certainly drive himself. Why not collect his

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