Chapter One
THE POPPING noise echoed so loudly that Kristie had to cover her ears. The sudden pain in her abdomen made her nauseous. Surprised, Kristie looked down and saw red soaking through her T-shirt. She looked up, panicked, and saw a cloaked figure running away...
Kristie’s eyes opened and she lurched upward, breathing hard. She clawed at her belly, trying to get the red off, when she realized that she wasn’t on the sidewalk, staring down into the cloaked face of the man who had shot her. No, Kristie was in her apartment with Gray snoring next to her.
Gray, she thought, turning to look at him. She felt covered in sweat, sticky and warm on her body from her nightmare. Always the same nightmare. The morning she had been shot, always a little different than how it had actually happen
