Slow Burn
“She rubbed her aching head, stretched a leg, and felt leather caress her thigh. “What happened?”
“Who—” She picked up the soft leather and memories of a tall man filled her mind. The image of a puma roaming through the forest, looking, hunting melted into another image of a man sitting in a lounge cigar in hand with smoke wafting around him.
Intrigued, Sonja focused harder on the figures, but they disappeared.
The mental fog started to clear. She recalled the events from last night. Derrick had... come to meet her, they almost slept together, then he curled up with her on the couch while she slept.
Why had they stopped? She blinked, remembered flooding him with emotional nonsense, the crap she’d picked up from the show. She also saw what looked like a younger version of him hunting in Africa for some powerful force. Unidentifiable, but his goal was clear. Make it out alive.
She remembered feeling the terror when some realization hit, and even more pain when someone close to him almost died.MoreLess
“Who—” She picked up the soft leather and memories of a tall man filled her mind. The image of a puma roaming through the forest, looking, hunting melted into another image of a man sitting in a lounge cigar in hand with smoke wafting around him.
Intrigued, Sonja focused harder on the figures, but they disappeared.
The mental fog started to clear. She recalled the events from last night. Derrick had... come to meet her, they almost slept together, then he curled up with her on the couch while she slept.
Why had they stopped? She blinked, remembered flooding him with emotional nonsense, the crap she’d picked up from the show. She also saw what looked like a younger version of him hunting in Africa for some powerful force. Unidentifiable, but his goal was clear. Make it out alive.
She remembered feeling the terror when some realization hit, and even more pain when someone close to him almost died.MoreLess
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