Midnight Shadows (Touched by Midnight Series - Book 7)
The Excerpt
“Are you crazy, Dr. Reynard?”
“W-what?”
“You know, crackers, looney tunes, nuts, bonkers . . . are you insane? Is your instability going to put all of us in danger once we get out into the jungle? My job is to protect your oldest, dearest friend on his little hunting and gathering trek into the wilds and I’ll have enough to worry about without waiting for you to go falling off the deep end.”
“Don’t worry about me, Mr. Cobb,” came words chiseled out in stone, “I’m not your concern.”
“You’re wrong there, Doc. You are my problem and I’ve got to decide how to deal with you.”
She drew herself up with a fiery indignation. “You don’t get to decide anything. You’re just the hired help here, along for the paycheck with no stake whatsoever in this.”
“That’s right—nothing except my life and, excuse me, but I do tend to place some value on that. I get to decide where I’m going to risk it, so if I’m going to go out there and put it on the line for, as you put it, the paycheck, I need to know if you can keep it together.”
( . . . and a bit more . . .)
“I’ll be fine, Cobb.”
“Will you? Are you? Then tell me what you saw earlier tonight in your room.”
“I didn’t see anything.” When his steady stare wouldn’t let her leave it at that, she added, “Anything real, okay. Is that what you wanted to hear—that I’m nuts, bonkers and all the rest, that I have a hole in my memories large enough to drive a semi-truck through? That I can’t trust myself to know what’s real?”
“Trust me.”
His sudden intensity dragged her back from the edge of hysteria.
“Why should I trust you, Cobb?”
“Because I can protect you if you let me. I know you’re not crazy . . . because I know what’s out there, and it’s real.” He touched the scar on his face without being aware of the gesture. “A nightmare that will suck you in and suck you dry if you let it. I won’t let it, Doc.”
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