Page 15 of Lethal Threat

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A pang of something hits my heart. Is that loneliness? I must not have a family. Since I arrived, there’s been no mention.

She lifts the paper bag and looks inside. “Alright. Let’s check out these clothes.”

There’s a knock on my partially closed hospital door. Anne’s eyes fly to mine. “You scoot on in the bathroom and get changed. I’ll stall him.”

“You’re a saint.”

I scurry into the bathroom. I’m panting. Not because I pretty much ran, but because this is it.

He’s here. He’s my only chance at getting out of this place.

I pull the T-shirt out and hold it up. A laugh starts to form in my tummy.

Transformers?Seriously? Where did this come from?

I hold it up. It’s tiny. It’s a boy’s size medium.

A rumble of voices outside the bathroom door makes me curse.

“Here goes nothing.”

I shove my arms in the shirt and drag it over my head. The struggle is real. It barely fits over my braless breasts. The hem lands above my belly button.

I frown down at myself. Surely this has to be a comedy. A cringy one.

The other thing in the bag is a pair of men’s gym shorts. They smell like the T-shirt—clean laundry detergent. They’re a men’s size large.

God. Maybe I should put the gown back on.

I glance at the thing on the floor.No way in hell.I am not meeting the man of my dreams in a thin, backless hospital gown.

I tug up the shorts and flip the waist, praying they stay up.

It’s not a good look. I look like an idiot.

How did my life end up like this?

Washed up in the bay, half dead. Bruises all over me. Engaged to a man I can’t remember. And the first time I meet him, I’m going to look like the thrift shop threw up on me.

I almost pull the cord on the wall that rings the desk and ask for an intervention.

Bam! Bam! The bathroom door rattles. “Sierra?”

Not Anne. Definitely not her. This man has a VOICE.

That deep rasp booms through the door again. “Sierra?”

God, help me now.

Chapter Six

COLE

My friend is a straight up chicken. He wouldn’t even come into the hospital room with me. I also noted the nurse took off.

“Sierra?” I knock on the bathroom door again.

“Go away.”

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