Heller's Revenge (45 page)

He raised an eyebrow. “So it
seems.”

“You’re just as extraordinary a
man as Meili and I feel privileged to have known both of you.” I
kissed him. “I’m really sorry I said those cruel things to you.”
And I continued to kiss him for a long while, enjoying the warmth
of his lips and the comforting way he stroked my back.

“You can say cruel things to me
all day long, Matilda, if you’re going to make up for it like
that,” he smiled lazily when I’d finished and was leaning on his
chest, gazing down with dreamy affection into his beautiful
eyes.

“I was being serious,” I
pouted.

“So was I,” he smiled again and
leaned up to kiss me, his stomach muscles tensing in a way that
made me forget what I was about to say next. So I settled down on
his chest again, and rested my hand on those taut muscles with a
sigh of happiness.

“I hope my next assignment is a
fun one. I’m done with crying and feeling so sad all the time.”

“Well, now that you mention it,”
he hinted. “I do have an interesting little job for you.”

I sat up. “Really? What is
it?”

He smiled teasingly. “I’ll tell
you about it tomorrow.”

“Does ‘interesting’ mean
bad-interesting or good-interesting?”

“Tomorrow, my sweet. For now,
you need to sleep.”

“Heller! Just tell me what it
is.”

He chuckled to himself and
reached over to turn off the lamp, settling himself onto his
pillow. And knowing that it was pointless to press him further, I
burrowed against him again, not minding the weight of his leg
thrown across mine. I let his steady breathing lull me into
drowsiness.

And in that nice, dozy
half-awake, half-asleep state, I thought about the ‘interesting’
assignment, wondering if I’d really made the right decision to
become a security officer. I laid there in the dark, flicking over
the awful incidents that I’d experienced since I’d first set foot
inside the Warehouse – incidents that I’d never have experienced in
a normal life, some of them traumatic.

But even as I thought that,
Heller drew me up closer to his body, his arms tightening around me
protectively, as if he could tell my mind had wandered into
negative territory about my life with him. And as I snuggled up
against him, I knew that there was no other place I wanted to be,
no matter what tomorrow brought.

And I slept soundly.

I usually did when I was with
him.

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About the author:

JD Nixon lives in Queensland, Australia
writing and editing for a living during the day, but by night lets
a wild imagination run free.

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Heller series

Heller
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Heller’s Revenge

Heller’s Girlfriend

Heller’s Punishment

Heller’s Decision (due 2012)

Little Town series

Blood
Ties
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Blood Sport

Blood Feud (due 2012)

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