Page 22 of Dangerous Mission
Then he turns to look at me.
I shrink back. He looks unhinged.
“You didn’t tell me you are Griff’s baby sister.”
My blinking is probably a clue I have no idea what he’s talking about. His comment is so out of left field my poor overworked brain can’t computer.Imean compute.
Much like the smoking desktop’s carcass, my wiring is shot.
Waiting for me to do something, he just pins me with his arctic ferocity.
I offer a nervous shrug. “I didn’t know I needed to tell you that.”
He walks past me without a word.
Jesus. This guy!
I need an app that interprets glares, grunts, and weird loaded silences.
Fueled by anger, I follow him back toward the front of the building. When he stops suddenly, I have to jump to the side to avoid slamming into his gigantic back.
His voice is a low growly tone. “Did you…”
When I see what he’s looking at, I cringe. The rock and a lot of broken glass.
“I had to break the window.”
With a slow shake of his head, he tugs off his hat. “And did you set the computer on fire for heat?”
“What?” I gasp. “Oh my god, no! There was a lightning strike.”
He swivels his gaze toward me. It’s silver as the moon and full of disbelief.
I hold up my hand, scout’s honor style. “I’m serious, the building got struck.”
He puts his hat back on and tugs it down so his eyes are in shadow again.
How can he make me feel so confused and so guilty with one slicing look?
Even though I don’t owe him a thing, the man can probably get a confession out of a tin can.
I throw up both hands. “I got left behind. I was sick of beingin the rain and I couldn’t sleep in the plane. That’s just too… I don’t know how to explain exactly, but the idea of getting in that plane is too much. And I couldn’t get in that other truck.”
After repressing a gag, I say, “Double ick. So… I convinced myself there must be a vending machine in here. I was starving. Then a bolt of lightning hit the building. And the computer caught on fire.”
He walks off.
Again.
I stare at his very fine, very masculine butt as he disappears down a hallway.
What the hell?Extrawhat the hell?
He just walked off and I was officially undressing the man with my eyes.
The sound of breaking glass makes me jump.
When he emerges from wherever he was, he throws something at me.