Oh crap!Two against one.
Okay, she would just have to get out of here before they spotted her.She was not in the mood for a two against one confrontation.
Besides, who knew how many more were out there.Or in here?
She took one step backward.
A floorboard creaked beneath her foot.
Oh no!
The sound sliced through the quiet kitchen like a gunshot.
Both men turned, alerted by the noise.
Jenna froze.
One man was a complete stranger, and his surprised gaze was fixated on her gun.
The taller man smiled at her.His familiar brown eyes twinkled with excitement.His dark brown hair was short, but not as short as the last time she’d seen him in the courtroom when he’d been sentenced to twenty-five years in prison.
It had been a long time since she’d seen him and shock flooded through her.
All the air flew out of her lungs, and his face swam in front of her.Her knees wobbled and the world tilted as if someone had yanked the floor out from under her.Her ears rang, muting everything except the thunder of her heartbeat.
Was she dreaming?
“Hey, baby doll.Long time no see,” he said in that growly voice that she had once loved so much.The sound of it.Rough, familiar, impossibly real, punched straight through her and her fingers involuntarily tightened around the gun.
Axel.
He couldn’t be here.He was in prison with years left on his sentence.Her mind scrambled for logic, but her body knew him instantly.The stance, the dark brown eyes, the quiet intensity.
He looked much older, yet so much more handsome.His shoulders were wider, his waist narrower.That big bulge between his thighs was still…big.
Heat rushed to her face, an involuntary echo of the young woman she’d once been.
He looked at her with that same love in his expression that he had all those years ago.
Jenna hesitated, caught between disbelief and recognition.Her breath stuttered.Suddenly she was caught between running toward him and running away.
His gaze lingered on her face; his familiar affectionate gaze was unmistakable despite the years and the distance that had separated them.For a brief moment, time seemed to stand still as the memories of their past rushed back.
Her heart wrenched with love for him.Their dreams of a long happy life together.The horrific thing he’d done.And then he’d been locked away.
His gaze suddenly dropped, and she’d forgotten she was holding the gun on them.
“Not exactly the welcome I was expecting.How about you let me have the gun before it goes off, eh?”he said softly and took a step toward her.
Her pulse spiked.
Oh my God.He really is here.
“Axel,” she whispered.
Her vision tunneled, the edges of the room blurred.
Suddenly she was swallowed up in a black wave she couldn’t stop.
