Phoenix Rising Complete Series by Annie Anderson

Author:Annie Anderson [Anderson, Annie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Annie Anderson

WEST – 1995 – OUTER BANKS, NC

We were sleeping naked and wrapped around each other when I nearly lost her.

It’s funny how little we thought of the outside world – how little we thought of the consequences of my life before her. But physics has it right. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Even if it’s a hundred some odd years late.

I was dreaming – dreaming of her running away from me and me chasing her, a game we used to play. Evangeline loved cat and mouse. She would pop in my workshop, poke me in the belly, say ‘You’re it!’ and pop back out, practically begging for me to chase her – usually when I’d been working on an engine too long. I loved the game and her, mostly because she got me out of my own head. She got me to have fun. She got me to forget. The game usually ended with us wrapped around each other in bed – just like we were right then.

But this dream was so much different than all the others. It didn’t feel playful, it felt like she was running from someone or thing. In my dream, she looked frightened, so when I shook myself out of it, I was already on high alert. Had I woken up a second later, we both would have died.

I saw a glint of moonlight coming in through the open French doors, reflecting off the steel of a rather large hunting knife.

Just one second later and her light would be out, and that one second would haunt me for the rest of my life. I didn’t wait, I tightened my hold on her still-sleeping form and traveled to the panic room I set up in an interior, windowless room on the bottom floor.

By then, she was awake, and I threw clothes at her as I tried to dress, grab weapons from their assigned pegs and get back to the men who broke into our island house with not so much as a whisper.

“West, wait,” she said as she grabbed my elbow, but I couldn’t look at her.

I couldn’t – I was too guilty.

I left her there in that steel-walled room, and even after I eliminated the threat – a family member of a target I’d ended at John’s insistence when he’d murdered four small children – it was a long time before I spoke again.

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