With You #2 (The Knights Brothers Trilogy, Book 2) Read Free Page B

anyone.
    Then…
    I heard my name called. It was a familiar voice. A chilling
feeling slithered down my spine. I was hallucinating again, wasn’t I? I smelled
the fresh brew of Starbucks coffee and a delicious scent of expensive cologne
like the one Cory had one the day he…
    “Hey, everything okay? Should I get the nurse?”
    I looked up and my heart leaped into my throat.
    “Cory?” I cried out. “You’re…are you here? You’re…you’re
alive?”
    “Well, I sure hope so, or somebody owes me a serious
explanation,” he said in his smooth, sexy deep voice that sent electricity
pulsing through my veins.
    Cory was alive?
    But…
    “Well, dear. Of course, he’s alive,” Grandma chimed in. “He
was the one who called us here to the hospital.” Grandma looked astonished at
my reaction.
    “But…” I was dreaming. I knew I was. I was going to wake up
and it would all be over. “But…the doctor. The nurse. They…they said you had
died trying to save me.” My voice trembled in my throat. I could barely keep my
body from shaking.
    What was going on?
    “I did?” Cory cocked a brow. His beautiful tall, muscular
frame stood over me as he placed the tray with coffees on the side table. He
knew I liked Starbucks double, double and that’s what he had on the tray. What
was going on? Wasn’t he supposed to be dead?
    Not that I was complaining. I just wanted to be sure I
wasn’t hallucinating or dreaming this all up.
    Grandpa continued to snore loudly. Grandma got up and gently
swatted him with the newspaper on the side table. “Wake up, Ernie. Let’s go for
a walk.”
    Aww, Grandma wanted to give Cory and I a chance to figure
out what the heck was going on. What had Cory told them? Grandma was so willing
to give us privacy.
    Cory gazed lovingly into my eyes. His beautiful dark, sexy
eyes held me gaze and pleasure rippled through my body again. The memory of his soft skin and hard muscles over me, bringing me
to erotic heights, days ago in the middle of the storm in his SUV. Oh,
God! I loved him. I wanted to be with him. Only him. But I was confused about
everything right now.
    “Now,” Cory said with a charming dimpled grin on his face as
he sat down beside me. He ran his hand down my back and shivers of delight
danced through my belly— a warmth came over me.
Yes. He was real. This was real. I wasn’t dreaming. I was feeling
him—again.
    “Who told you I was dead?” Cory asked, matter-of-factly as
if amused.
    “I overheard the doctor and nurse saying DOA that he…you
died saving me.”
    Cory wrinkled his dark sexy brow and then a grin touched his
lips. “Yeah. I get it now. It wasn’t me, Kate. Some dude happened to be driving
by and saw us on the lake. Me trying to pull you out. He came to give a hand but I told him to get help. He did but then he came
back. He must have been pushing seventy.”
    “Seventy?” my voice spiked. “An old man?”
    “Well it’s not that old…but yeah, he was old enough to be my
old man’s old man but I think it was his time. He didn’t really look too well.
He was a nice guy trying to give me a hand but I had told him to stay back. I
didn’t want to have to rescue two of you at the same time. One casualty was
enough,” Cory finished. He leaned in closer to me.
    I let out a deep sigh of relief but more than that. My heart
was beating normally again. The pressure in my head wasn’t so unbearable now.
    “Oh, God! Cory!” I cried into his chest, snaking my arms
around his waist. I thought I had lost him. Cory was alive.
    Thank you, God! I was getting what so many people didn’t
have—a second chance to make things right. And that second chance was
something I was so not going to screw up.
    “Listen, I’m sorry for being out of line back at the car…I
shouldn’t have…”
    “No, Cory! It wasn’t your fault. You were right. I wanted
the truth and I needed the truth, even if the truth stings.”
    “Yeah, the truth does hurt…but it is also the one thing