Page 113 of The Sniper
“Fine.Stop nagging.I’ll go into the BHS Facebook group and see what the gossip is.”
“You have a BHS FB gossip group?”I asked.
“No,” he deadpanned me.“We are men.”
Sadie giggled, but the ripped soldier could sneeze and she’d giggle.
“I don’t know,” I told Sadie now.“Crazy to think she is the daughter of one of the most dangerous men in Russia.”
And had been in my home many times.
“She must know something.”Sadie shrugs and adds more brochures onto the shelf.
“Ladies.”Noah walks in with a box of donuts and, by the smell wafting into my office, delicious coffee.
We both look up.
“Kitchen meeting.Come on.”He tilts his head toward the living room, and both of us scuttle after him.
“What is happening?”Sadie asks.
“I don’t know.”I giggle.
Life is lightening up, even if my heart still is heavy.
Jayden hasn’t made any attempt to contact me, which was expected, if I’m honest.It’s been weeks since we spent that week together and over a week since he killed the Russians and saved my life.
It’s hard not to romanticize what happened.
Especially when he showed up, carried me away, and made love to me with power and passion.
To someone watching, it might look like he just fucked me.He didn’t.There was love and anguish in his eyes.
I can’t force him to face his feelings.
I can’t wait for him forever.
I am not sure if I am even waiting.
I simply wake up every day grateful to be alive and remind myself to make the most of it.
We step into the kitchen and dive into the donuts as Noah hands us our custom coffee.
“Yum, thanks.What’s this about?”
“I have top secret information,” he says, sipping his drink.
“Ooh, is it going to put our lives at risk?”Sadie asks, grinning.
I swear she loves this cloak and dagger stuff.
“You know I’m not in the mob, right?”Noah frowns.
“Yes, good point.Okay.Go.Continue.Oh god.I’m so excited.”She bounces on the spot.
Noah glances at me allshould I be worried about her.
I wave him off.“Spill, Commander.”
