Reckless With Their Hearts Read Free

one hand and shoving the snack into his mouth with the other. To see all three of the Savage men was to witness a trio of Viking warriors, although Garth’s hair was more silver than blond now. They all stood close to six and a half feet with Sebastian the tallest. With their powerful builds, even Garth for his age, the power just exuded from them.
    Even Quinn, though her hair was a lovely caramel color was unusually tall, standing an inch over six feet. E ve, above average at five feet eight inches felt like a shrimp around all of them. But they also made her feel incredibly safe and that was something that she need more than ever right now.
    “Well, this Christmas has been eventful.” Cameron joked around a mouthful of popcorn. “Let’s try to keep the excitement level down though, okay? My heart can’t take anymore.”
    “That’s E for you.” Sebastian sat back in the corner of the sofa, trying to relax. “She is such a pain. I don’t know why we keep her around these days.”
    That got a pillow tossed at him from Eve, but she was smiling. “I love you too.” She assured him. “Next time you can do my banking.”
    “Sure. But just so you know we plan on switching banks as quickly as possible.”

Chapter 2
    How she fell asleep was still a mystery to her. But around three thirty she awoke gasping for air. She had dreamed the entire thing again only this time she had died, not the masked man who had attempted to take her as a hostage.
    Eve sat up in bed, sweat beading across her forehead and upper lip. Wiping a hand across her face she got out of bed and reached for her robe to cover the tee shirt and panties that were her normal pajamas. She slipped it on but didn’t bother to tie the belt knowing that everyone should be sound asleep anyway.
    Tired but knowing that she would never be able to get back to sleep again after her nightmare she went downstairs to sit in front of the fireplace in the family room. The house was so big it wasn’t surprising for guests—which were rare—to get lost in the maze of halls. When Eve had first come to live here it had been somewhat of a headache to remember where each room was.
    Garth’s room—which he ha d once shared with her mother—was in the east wing. On the first floor of the east wing was his home office and the library. The middle of the first floor, at the rear of the house was the kitchen which would make any chef weep with appreciation. The west wing of the house was where her room was, along with Sebastian’s as well as a few quest rooms. Quinn and Cameron’s rooms where in the middle of the second floor which for some strange reason was always quieter.
    The first floor’s west wing housed the famil y room as well as several other large rooms that were rarely used. Eve entered the family room and crossed to the fireplace. It was a gas fire log and she moved to sit on the floor in front of it. The Christmas tree was still lit up making a nice night light in the corner of the otherwise darkened room. She had decorated the tree herself a few days ago with a little help from Garth.
    It looked festive and cheerful, something that her mother would have adored. Giselle Savage had been a wonderful woman: Spirited, well-bred with a French aristocratic father and an English mother. Eve looked a lot like her and unfortunately had inherited a lot of her spiritedness. Her red head showcased exactly what type of temper she had.
    Eve missed her mother. Even though they had spent most of each school year apart until she was thirteen, they had been close. Her father, who had died when Eve was just a baby, hadn’t been a great guy . Geoff Patel had been an angry man, emotionally abusive if not physically. Some had wondered how someone so high tempered as Giselle had put up with the man. But when Giselle had met Garth she had found her own Prince Charming.
    Eve knew that as much as she missed her mother, it didn’t come close to how lost Garth felt.
    “Little girls