Until You Found Me: A Small Town Romantic Suspense by Anna Callaway

Author:Anna Callaway [Callaway, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2024-09-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

A scream loud enough to crack the windows startles him awake in the night.

Logan grabs for the gun on instinct, certain someone must be breaking in. When he finally releases the safety, he realizes they are alone and the sound he heard was caused by an ongoing nightmare. The initial scream fades, yet Tessa promptly begins another, scratching her skin and fixating on her hands, as if searching for chunks of flesh.

“Hey, hey, don’t do that. You’ll hurt yourself.” He keeps calm even though she’s scaring the shit out of him.

She’s too focused on trying to rip her own body apart to pay him any attention. Is it bugs? Roaches or ants crawling across her arms? Or is that only his first instinct after growing up in a bug-infested house?

“Tessa? Tessa, look at me, wake up.” He rubs her arm with a light touch, trying to soothe her out of it rather than jolt her back to consciousness. She stares right through him when he moves into her field of view and that’s when he notices the streaks of blood on her wrists and decides he can’t let this go on. “Tessa, wake up!”

Her reaction to his sudden, sharp yell is volatile, sending her jerking away and stumbling off the bed until she’s pressed up against the closet, then sliding down to the ground, yelling at him not to touch her.

“Don’t you ever fucking touch me again! Fuck you! I hate you. I hate you. This is all your fault. She’d be here if you didn’t…”

She isn’t talking to him, she can’t be. He pushes through the reactionary pang in his heart and edges closer. “I need you to look at me. You’re in the trailer, remember? It was just a dream.”

He slides off the foot of the bed to kneel down so he isn’t hovering above her, leaving some space between them in case she lashes out. The two of them are crunched into the tiny space where she once cradled him in her lap after he lapsed into a diabetic coma.

She’s trembling hard enough that the thin wood on the closet shakes. Maybe that helps snap her out of it as much as his voice does because she finally looks at him with recognition laced with guilt. “Logan?”

“Yeah, I’m here.”

“I had a nightmare.”

“I know.”

She looks down at her hands, finding them coated in her own blood and a look of horror flashes across her already wet face.

“You scratched yourself a little bit. Come on, let’s get you cleaned up.” He offers his hand, and she takes it quickly, much to his relief. It’s only then that he notices she’s been naked this whole time and so has he.

They’d fallen asleep after being together, curled up with tangled limbs. It didn’t occur to him to put his boxers back on at the time. Used to be the type to wear pants to bed, zipped up, and uncomfortable. It was an effort to provide some kind of barrier, but he drifted off almost instantly beside Tessa.

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