Lessons Learned (Mission Mercenaries Book 1) by Marie James

Author:Marie James [James, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: dark romance
Publisher: MJB Publishing
Published: 2022-10-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Angel

I’m always at peace when I’m home.

Well, I used to be.

That restless feeling I’ve had for the last couple of weeks didn’t drop away once I opened my front door.

It lingers, haunts, keeps me from sleeping well, and is like a constant dripping faucet, annoying and beyond frustrating.

It’s her fault.

She did this.

My life was perfectly fucking fine. I didn’t have to worry about anyone. I didn’t have to wonder what they were up to.

It was me, alone, secluded.

I wasn’t checking out the windows without an alert to my security system, wondering if she was going to show up.

My blood didn’t pump harder every time I got out of the shower with what? Hope? That she was going to be sitting on my bed.

I’m disappointed in the way I feel.

And admittedly, disappointed she hasn’t shown her damn face.

I growl at the kitchen counter when I cut it too close and bang my hip into it.

I’m not the type of man to let every little thing bother him.

Well, I wasn’t.

I spent the last two days traveling, needing to get out of this damn house, and even in returning things it still feels off, a little out of place. There’s something I can’t put my finger on, and it’s bugging the shit out of me.

I’m restless, annoyed, wishing she was here just so I could take my frustrations out on her.

“I swear to fucking God,” I mutter when I sit in my office chair and coffee spills on my jeans.

One deep breath in. One long breath out.

I’m not one for using any type of calming techniques. Spilling blood normally does that to me, but there’s no fucking blood to spill right now, and it’s making me antsy.

With a clenched jaw and heavy hands, I pull up my computer program for work. I’ve spent way too long hanging around here, thinking she’ll find me. It’s time to get back to work.

Lauren Vos isn’t a part of my life. She never was. She never will be.

I scroll, finding myself looking at faces more than price tags, and that irritates the hell out of me too.

Who these people are shouldn’t matter. The amount I’d be able to put into my account is all I should care about.

The thrill I normally get when searching for a job is dulled somehow. It doesn’t carry the same rush I’m accustomed to.

The girls being sold on the dark web all look the same—beaten, broken, abused. If I had a heart, it would probably make me sad.

My fingers freeze on an image, my throat threatening to seize, and my earlier declaration of not having a heart is betrayed by the damn thing beginning to pound in my chest.

She’s there. Lauren. Glassy, barely opened eyes looking at the camera.

She looks worse than I’ve ever left her.

I no longer see that same fire, the defiance in her eyes.

It’s only been three days since I got back home.

Three days since she left me sleeping in the motel room across town.

Did she leave to

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