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Shadow Warrior
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She stirred and lifted her head. “Junior?”

“I’ll get you out, Naomi. Hold on.”

She must be dreaming. She had dreamed of him every single night for the past seven years, so why should this be different?

The last thing she remembered was being in a car with no brakes and heading over the edge of the cliff. The car accident must’ve knocked her out and carried her away into familiar and erotic dreams of the man she had always loved. Would always love.

Trying hard to pull herself out of the haze, Naomi inhaled deeply and blinked. There was something important she had to do—and it was floating right at the edge of her consciousness.

“The doors are locked,” a deep, masculine voice called out from nearby. “I’m going to have to break a window to reach you. Try to stay awake, Naomi. I’ll need you to pay attention and do what I say.”

That sounded like Junior’s voice. Was she awake? A shooting pain at her temple blindsided her, searing her in a way unlike any dream. Another pain, this time in her ankle, confirmed the worst—she was not dreaming.

“Help me,” she whimpered. “What happened? It hurts.”

The face from her dreams, wet with perspiration and scowling with determination, appeared in the passenger window. “Don’t try to move,” he said with a rasp. “I have something that’ll shatter the window so I can reach you. Shut your eyes tight and don’t open them until I say.”

She closed her eyes. Junior. The last time they were together had been to say good-bye. She could still feel the youthful desperation, egging them on toward that one last kiss. That one last touch. They’d eventually given in to teenage lust, all mindless and fierce. And neither one had had even the slightest idea that their good-bye would end up meaning forever.

Junior set his jaw. He didn’t dare think about this injured woman being his Naomi. The initial surprise had quickly dissolved into steamy memories and heated blood. But such sudden desire was uncalled for and unwise.

Sweeping it all aside, he rammed the tool in his hand upward with one heavy thrust. The tempered glass window webbed into a thousand unbroken splinters. Fisting his other hand, he knocked out the whole panel.

With the glass impediment gone, Junior reached inside and unlocked the door. At that moment he felt the ground underneath his feet tremble and the disabled car jolted.

Why? When he looked, it didn’t take a genius to discover the car had been precariously balanced on the edge of another precipice and now was inching toward disaster.

Any sudden moves and the car and all inside would go crashing down to the canyon floor a hundred feet below.

To be continued…

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