Free Secret Seduction by Jill Sanders Page B

man’s arms and she didn’t even care.
     

    “They are going to be at the airport in the morning. I want some men in Rome watching the airport there just to make sure they don’t slip by you.”
     
    “You don’t have to tell me how to do my job.”
     
    “Apparently I do. Don’t forget, if you don’t deliver her, you won’t see a dime of the rest of the money. I want her there, unharmed and on time. It’s very important.”
     
    “I understand, and you’ll have her there on time. Now let me do my job.” He hung up with a quick snap of the phone.
     
    “I’m tired of being told how to do my job. Raul, we’ve been doing this job for years, not once have we ever been told what to do. I don’t like it. Maybe this time we took off more than we can bite, eh?”
     
    “Chew. It’s maybe we took off more than we can chew. I thinks.”
     
    The two friends laughed. “Come on, my friend, let’s go get our prize.”
     

    Katie woke in the dark, in a sweat. She didn’t know what had caused her to wake at this hour, but looking around the dark room she realized someone was in the room with them. She could hear them moving around softly, and she thought she saw movement over in the corner, but out of fear she didn’t move or speak. She just stared into the darkness, waiting for something to happen. It was too dark to see, but she knew someone was there, just out of sight.
     
    She tried to move her hand to wake Jason, but she was frozen, she couldn’t even squeeze his arm. ^$When she tried to open her mouth to scream for him, nothing came out. She felt like a fish out of water, her mouth opening and closing widely several times.
     
    Her arms wouldn’t move, nothing would work, and she watched in horror as a large man with no teeth came slowly out of the darkness towards her. His hands were stretched out and she saw a pair of shiny handcuffs in one of his thick hands and a dirty potato bag in the other.
     
    She tried to jump up, to scream, anything…
     
    “Katie! Katie!” Jason screamed over and over again, shaking her until she finally woke from the nightmare.
     
    He reached over and flipped on the light. Freed from her paralysis, she frantically looked around the room. No one was hiding in the shadows, no one was there except for them.
     
    “Are you okay, Kat?” He moved to take her into his arms.
     
    “Yeah, I think… It was just a dream,” she said, more to assure herself than anything.
     
    “It’s okay, you’re okay.” He ran his hands down her hair and held her in a tight hug.
     
    She noticed the room was getting lighter and hated knowing she’d started the day this way. But then she realized she was in Jason’s arms and closed her eyes to the warm feeling of him holding her.
     
    “We’d better get going. Our flight leaves in a few hours,” he said into her hair. She looked over at the clock and realized it was just past seven. Their flight left at ten, which gave them just enough time to dress, eat, and make it to the airport.
     
    Just then the hotel phone rang. “That’s our wake up call.” He leaned over and answered it.
     
    Katie wrapped the sheet around her as she hunted for her clothes, which had ended up all over the floor; for once, she hadn’t cared about the mess.
     
    A few hours later, after eating some fresh blueberry muffins from a local bakery down the street, they made it to the small airport.
     
    People came and went and she was actually excited to get out of Greece. Maybe she was looking forward to the change of scenery, or just the possibility of getting away from trouble. Still, Jason stopped her from walking straight to the ticket booth to check in. He told her to hold back, just out of sight for a while. So they stood against the wall and watched people come and go for a few minutes. Then he cussed under his breath.
     
    “What?”
     
    “Hang on,” he said, pulling her back further.
     
    “Why?”
     
    “Katie, are you going to question me the