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Shadow Warrior
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Naomi was furious. How dare Ben Wauneka try to keep her in his clinic against her will.

He’d given her pain medication and was icing her sprain, so why should she stay here overnight?

Wait until Michael arrived. She would demand that her brother get her out of here so she could look for Emily.

She lay back against the pillows of her hospital bed, started feeling a little groggy but fought to stay awake. Resting was one thing, but she refused to fall asleep until Emily was safe.

“How are you doing?” Junior stood in the doorway to her room with concern written all over his face.

“Terrible. Can you get me out of here?”

He smiled and came to sit by her bed. “Dr. Ben says you need at least one night’s rest before you get back on your feet.”

“Junior, my daughter. She’s been taken by—”

“I know,” he said soothingly. “Ben explained what’s been going on in Dinetah. It’s hard to believe those old, terrifying stories we scared ourselves with as children have come to life, isn’t it?”

“Not for me. I saw them.”

“Quiet now, Smiley. Rest.”

Naomi stared up into the masculine face she remembered so well. Once she had known that hard-angled jawline and those high cheekbones better than she’d known her own. His gentle dark-chocolate eyes took her back to a place when life had seemed so easy. She could almost smell the soap and the crisp outdoors scent that had always surrounded him. It was as if no time had passed since they’d been as close as any two people—and desperately in love.

But so much had happened since then. Too much. Starting with how he had never answered any of her letters. She’d written of her loneliness, of her love, begging him to answer and give her hope. After a few weeks of not hearing, she’d even begun pleading with him to come for her.

But there had never been any reply.

The anguish and frustration were as clear in her heart now as they had been all those years ago. Still, he had once been her everything. And today he had saved her life. Regardless of their many past mistakes, Junior would help her rescue Emily.

At this moment nothing else mattered.

“Rest,” he said again. “Close your eyes. I’ll sit here. Be here when you need me.”

Fleetingly, she thought of how she’d wished he would’ve meant that seven years ago, long before her life had taken such big twists.

“But what about your son and your business?” she asked instead of saying what was in her heart.

“Teddy will be fine with my mother. And I have an assistant who can take care of the garage if need be.” Junior reached out and actually took her hand. “Sleep for a little while. You can count on me.”

Maybe that had been true when they were kids with the same interests and the same dreams. She wanted more than anything to believe it might someday be true again.

But she couldn’t get past the time when it had really mattered, when her whole life had hinged on him. And he had been nowhere around.

To be continued…

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