Chapters (11)
Panic struck as her pulse hurdled erratically. She jumped to her feet. Irrational, unreasonable concern for their safety flooded her thoughts. Swiping the phone from the table, she read Nicola’s name on the display. Another Titan wife she hadn’t known until recently. Sarah had been cocooned in her little world, while other Titan men had loved and lived, in public. What had made Brock so scared to share them?
Catching her breath, she mentally scolded herself for thinking the worst about Kelly and Jessica. She’d come to Pennsylvania to get away from her paranoia. Like the distance would somehow help. It didn’t.
The phone continued to ring, still Nicola. She answered. “Hey, girl.”
“Sarah. Dang, it takes you forever to pick up. We—”
“We?” she asked, sliding into the chair Brock had just used.
“Sugar’s here too.”
“Hey,” Sugar said. “We’re in Nic’s car. Speakerphone.”
Sarah had briefly met Nicola but liked her. “Hey, Sugar.” Since she had them on the phone and the question was fresh in her mind, Sarah used the call to her advantage. “Who’s Mia Winters?”
“Good.” Sugar laughed. “Brock’s been there already.”
“You knew?” She glared at the floor. “A little warning would’ve been nice.”
“No, we just found out,” Nicola answered. “Sugar bothered Jared, who’d been talking to Mia. Those two are chatty-Cathies, I’m telling you. Anyway, you talked to Brock?”
Talked? Not so much. Pretty much stared. Years of marriage and the man was every bit as hot as when she’d first seen him. Actually, probably hotter. He’d matured. Shed his post-military body for the hunk of steel Titan had turned him into. “Yes. Well, sort of. Wait, tell me about Mia.”
Sugar jumped in. “Mia just had a baby. Winters is her husband. He never goes by Colby, but that’s his first name. She’s a military therapist. Deals with all those Special Forces types who can’t talk about their nightmares and paranoia, helps them transition into everyday life.”
Nightmares and paranoia? Sounded like her. “She talked to Brock.”
“She talks to all of them,” Nicola said. “Easygoing but tough as nails. If that makes sense.”
“Guess so.” Then again, all these Titan ladies seemed laid-back and unflappable. Just like she’d thought she was, until an abduction had proven her wrong.
“Well?” both Sugar and Nicola asked in unison.
“Well, what?”
“Don’t play stupid. What’d your superhero have to say?”
Sarah’s cheeks heated. She’d told Sugar that Brock was her superhero before the truth had come out. “He’s not my—never mind. He talked to Mia.”
“Yeah, we got that, hon. Keep going.”
Sugar was the bossy one of the group, that was for sure. “They talked about how we could, I don’t know. This feels so stupid to say out loud. How we could make things work again. I guess. He didn’t go into details.”