Unwelcome Protector by Alexa Wallace

Author:Alexa Wallace [Wallace, Alexa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2017-02-25T05:00:00+00:00

Ada sipped her brandy. It tasted better than she thought but it made her sleepy. She leaned against Alex for support. Everything that had happened in the last hour was almost too much to take in. First the intimacy with the man beside her that had taken her so much by surprise, and then the attack that had so terrified her. And shooting a gun and wounding a man? Where had that come from? If anyone had told her yesterday that today would be filled with such events she would have laughed at them.

With Alex, why had she dropped all the defences she'd taken so long to acquire, and why so suddenly? She wasn't sure where the attraction was heading. Her head and her body were in combat. She felt less mentally disciplined, and the sudden change in her life had disturbed her.

Did it happen because they'd been thrown together by circumstances? No. Their meeting was the logical result of their positions at this point in time and space. And what else was that but fate, a concept she'd had trouble accepting in the past. Now she wasn't so sure.

She had to face it. She was now involved in a relationship and the prospect had upset her. When her present troubles were over, the relationship would either dissolve or strengthen. Sitting here now she knew which outcome she wanted. What would come after? Why try to predict the future? What happened, happened. All she could do now was try to guide events along the path she knew she wanted to follow.

As for the violence she'd committed, she felt strangely calm. Her actions there seemed a natural, spontaneous attempt to protect someone she cared for. Cared for? Wasn't it more than that? Love? It was too early to say, but all she knew was that she would risk her life again in the same way if needed.

Her life had become the life of another woman entirely, a stranger she'd never known. She was confused. The brandy was thickening her thought processes. She put it down and closed her eyes. She had to pause. Things were moving too fast.

She jumped at the sharp sound of footsteps in the entrance hall. Alex sprang to his feet, then sat down again.

'Tony,' he said, and put a reassuring arm around her shoulders.

Tony placed a shopping bag on the floor and slumped into a chair. 'Did you know the front door is wide open?' he said. 'And what's all the broken pottery on the floor?'

Ada smiled. His curiosity and his innocence of what had happened were almost funny.

'If you check around you might see a few bullet holes as well,' Alex said tersely.

Ada let Alex explain the events of the past hour and watched as Tony's eyes widened and his concern mounted.

'Then he did follow me here this morning after I left Paddington,' Tony said, with a touch of guilt in his voice.

'Not necessarily,' said Ada. 'Zina was tracking Alex's phone. She could easily pinpoint this location.

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