Danger, Sweetheart (34 page)
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Authors: MaryJanice Davidson
“It's always different, you know,” she murmured. “I don't know where I am.”
“You're in Venice,” he said, and now
he
was whispering. “It'sâit's okay. I mean, you're safe and everything. I'd neverâno one's going to hurt you.”
And God, the way her face lit up. That smile. Jesus. “Really?”
“Yeah. Really.”
“No one will come in? Unless I let them?”
“No one,” he promised through numb lips.
Fuck. A nightmare that she's sleepwalking in? Or sleepwalking during a nightmare? What is this?
“It's okay. You're safe. Youâyou can go back to bed. If you want.”
“Bed?” And she flinched. Claire Fucking Delaney flinched.
“Well, you don't have to. You don't have to do anything you don't want to.”
The smile again. The relief. “Really?”
“Really.”
“Okay,” she said, and
beamed
at him. Then she turned around and walked back to her bed and climbed under the covers and flopped over on her side and twenty seconds later she was dead asleep again. He watched her for a while to make sure she was really out; he no longer wanted to masturbate. Now he had a whole new thing to wonder about. Did that make him a good man, or just easily distracted? Both? Neither? And was he wondering about that so he wouldn't think about how scary she had been, and sad, and afraid?
What the hell was that?
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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the authors' imagination or are used fictitiously.
DANGER, SWEETHEART.
Copyright © 2016 by MaryJanice Davidson. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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First Edition: May 2016