Hidden Away by Maya Banks

Author:Maya Banks [Banks, Maya]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction / Romance
ISBN: 9780425240175
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2011-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 21

SARAH came awake to a gentle hand on her shoulder. It became more persistent and her head wobbled as her eyelids fluttered open.

“Come on, Sarah. Time to wake up. We’ve got a lot to talk about.”

“Garrett,” she whispered.

“Yeah, it’s me.”

She rose up on one elbow and shoved her hair out of her face. She stared at him through bleary eyes as she tried to blink away the veil of sleep.

“So I didn’t dream you.”

“Not unless you had a very nice dream about a really good-looking guy.”

Though he delivered his teasing with a perfectly straight face, his blue eyes held a devilish glint. She shook her head to rid herself of the cobwebs. Talk. He wanted to talk, which meant he also wanted answers she wasn’t prepared to give. She definitely needed a clear head so she didn’t screw this up.

“Do I have time for a shower before we have this talk?”

He made a show of checking his watch. “I’ll give you five minutes and then we meet back here in this room. It’s the safest place to be.”

She scowled. “Five minutes? It’s obvious you’re not married and have probably never lived with a woman. You don’t give a woman five minutes to take a shower.”

He didn’t look impressed by her response. “Five minutes or I come in after you. They start now.”

Good God, he was serious. And he’d actually do it too. She didn’t doubt that for a moment.

“You now have four minutes and forty-five seconds.”

She dove for the end of the bed and ran for the bathroom, his chuckle following as she nearly killed herself getting out of the door.

“Five minutes,” she grumbled as she turned on the shower. He was probably used to hosing off in three minutes in the military. Well, she wasn’t in the military and furthermore, it took longer than five minutes just to wash her hair.

Still, his threat rang in her ears, and she wasn’t entirely certain that he wouldn’t come in after her so while she stuck her head under the spray to rinse the shampoo, she scrubbed the other parts of her body.

She momentarily got caught up in the absolute bliss of the hot water raining down over her. Instead of energizing her, as she’d hoped a shower would do, it made her want to crawl back into bed and sleep for about a year.

In disgust, she reached for the knob and turned the hot water completely off. The result was an icy blast that made her yelp as it pricked her body like little ice pellets. At least she wasn’t mooning over how good the bed would feel again.

As she stepped from the shower, shivering, Garrett pounded on the door.

“Sarah? Is everything okay in there?”

“Yes, fine!” she called. The last thing she wanted was for him to make good on his threat. “I’ll be out in just a minute, promise.”

She hurriedly dried and then pulled on her underwear and jeans over her still-damp skin. She struggled with her bra, and in her haste, she managed to put the damn thing on inside out.

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